Front End Engineer, Comms Design - job 2 of 2

About the Team

Communications Design tells OpenAI’s story—what we’re doing and why it matters—to the world through a variety of surfaces, most notably openai.com. Our small but nimble and growing team supports the design and development needs across the entire company, and sits within a larger team of professionals in press relations, public policy, and employee communications.

Communicating the advances and benefits of AGI is some of the most important work at OpenAI, and our goal is to do it in a beautiful, accessible, scalable, systematic way, with transparency and authenticity.

About the Role

We’re looking for experienced frontend engineers on the communications design team who can ship new features to millions of openai.com visitors around the world. You’ll work closely with other engineers on the team, our design partners, as well as cross-functional stakeholders across the company.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Partner closely with design, marketing, and other cross-functional stakeholders to communicate OpenAI’s mission to the world

• Design and build efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive a complex web application with millions of visitors a day

• Plan and deploy front end infrastructure necessary to build, test, and deploy Openai.com

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience building production web apps at scale using TypeScript, NextJS , React and other web technologies. Bonus points for solid web fundamentals like native JavaScript and CSS

• Are comfortable building complex applications and systems from the ground up, with limited development infrastructure available to you

• Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills. An equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with others

• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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