Full-Stack Engineer, Communications & Design

San Francisco, California, United States

About the Team

Communications Design tells OpenAI’s story—what we’re doing and why it matters—to the world through a variety of visual 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 beautifully, accessibly, and with transparency and authenticity.

About the Role

As the first Full-Stack Developer on the Communications Design team, you will own and maintain the infrastructure supporting the openai.com platform, which serves millions of people each day. This includes building out new features, expanding functionality, optimizing performance, and improving accessibility around the world. While our current infrastructure consists of a Nuxt 3 front-end with a Laravel server and a CMS backed by a PostgreSQL database,you will play a pivotal role in shaping our tech stack for the future.

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:

• Build out critical pieces of infrastructure like localization, form data pipelines, and support for A/B experimentation
• Improve content publishing integrations and tooling with our CMS
• Improve user experience for visitors around the world by improving site performance and functionality
• Author internal products and tools allowing the team and others at OpenAI to deliver on company strategies with increased velocity
• Work with a group of talented front-end developers, designers, and producers as well a cross-functional stakeholders from all around the company

You might thrive in the role if you:

• Have at least 6 years of backend and or full stack development experience with emphasis on API design
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Care deeply about quality, functionality, and the humans we’re communicating to by sweating the details, down to the last page request
• Are innately curious
• Enjoy (in fact, prefer) working quickly

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Mental health and wellness support
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

Annual Salary Range

$190,000—$240,000 USD

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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