Founding Full Stack Software Engineer, Consulting

Applied AI Engineering - San Francisco

About the Team

The Consulting team is part of OpenAI’s Enterprise Verticals organization. Our goal is to help consulting teams do better work for their clients. We work side by side with design partners to understand how their teams operate, then use what we learn to build for consultants everywhere.

Today, we’re bringing OpenAI’s models and products together to accelerate the core work of consulting, from investigating a client’s question to delivering advice they can act on. We’re starting by removing the barriers that keep consultants from using AI in their day-to-day work. We’ll draw on the full range of OpenAI’s capabilities, from ChatGPT Work to newer tools such as Dots and Spaces.

Longer term, we want to help firms develop AI-native ways of working. A team could design an engagement around questions it can now afford to explore, test several strategies with its client, and change course as it learns what works. We’re moving quickly, working across OpenAI’s research, product, and engineering teams to turn what we learn with design partners into products consultants everywhere can use.

About the Role

We’re looking for a full-stack software engineer to build first-party OpenAI products for consulting. You’ll own features end to end, from the frontend interfaces consultants use to the backend services and integrations that power them.

You’ll work closely with our consulting design partners and with colleagues across product, design, research, and engineering at OpenAI. Together, you’ll turn what you learn from individual engagement teams into products we can distribute broadly. Success will ultimately be defined by adoption and the value generated for consulting firms.

In this role, you will:

• Work directly with our design partners. Sit with consultants and engagement leaders, observe how they work, and identify problems worth solving across firms.
• Design and prototype experiences that help consultants do an important part of their job better from day one.
• Build across the stack, from the user interface to the services and APIs that connect OpenAI’s models with the tools consultants use.
• Build for firms with different methods and working environments while protecting the confidential information clients entrust to them.
• Evaluate what you build with design partners and researchers. Use real assignments to see where it improves the work and what still needs to change.
• Ship the product to consulting teams broadly and own its rollout and reliability. Use feedback and production data to guide improvements after launch.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have shipped and operated a substantial product, with hands-on ownership across frontend and backend systems.
• Have strong product and interface instincts, especially when people need to understand, question, or correct what software produces.
• Enjoy working directly with users and can tell when one customer’s request points to a problem many people share.
• Can turn an unfamiliar workflow into a working prototype, then make the technical choices it takes to support many teams.
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs about quality, speed, and reliability and can explain those choices to colleagues across disciplines.

Nice to Have

• Firsthand consulting experience combined with hands-on experience building and shipping software.
• Building software for research, analysis, collaboration, or other complex professional work.
• Developing AI applications and evaluating their usefulness with expert users.
• Designing enterprise products that handle sensitive information or fit into different organizations’ ways of working.
• Taking a product from its first few users to broad adoption as a founder or early engineer.

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 the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$347K – $445K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.