Frontend Software Engineer, ChatGPT Space

Codex - Engineering - San Francisco

About the Team

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The ChatGPT Space team is building a shared workspace where people and AI agents turn ideas into polished, editable work. Space brings teammates, ChatGPT, and dots together around shared knowledge and projects, with creation experiences spanning Pages, Sheets, Slides, and new kinds of artifacts.

We want work to keep improving beyond the first draft, using shared context and collaboration to stay current as projects evolve. We work across product, design, and research, partnering closely with model training teams to shape how frontier models create and edit artifacts. We ship quickly, learn from real usage, and hold a high bar for craft, correctness, and speed.

About the Role

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We’re hiring a Frontend Software Engineer to build a top-tier collaboration experience and help shape how people work with AI. This is a craft-heavy role: you’ll partner closely with design to prototypeance product experiences.

You’ll help define what great looks like for collaboration between people and agents: how shared context is represented, how contributions and changes are made understandable, and how users stay oriented and in control as work moves between teammates and AI.

What You’ll Do

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• Build and ship polishedance UI for Space and its collaborative workflows.
• Partner tightly with design to turn prototypes into production-quality experiences, from layout and typography to motion and interaction details.
• Develop intuitive interfaces for creating and editing shared content, organizing project context, and reviewing contributions from teammates and AI as work evolves.
• Own frontend architecture decisions across component systemsance.
• Improve quality and reliability through testing, instrumentation, accessibility, and thoughtful UX for loading, errors, and concurrent changes.
• Collaborate with research, and backend partners to bring model capabilities into cohesive creation, editing, and collaboration experiences.

You Might Thrive Here If You

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• Have strong experience with modern frontend stacks such as React and TypeScript, and a high bar for UI craft.
• Love design engineering: sweating the details while keeping velocity.
• Have built richance, responsiveness, and usability.
• Enjoy exploring ambiguous problems and iterating rapidly with design and product.
• Think in end-to-end workflows and can make complex interactions feel clear and intuitive.
• Have experience with collaborative applications, rich-text editors, real-time interfaces, or AI-powered products (nice-to-have).

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

$230K – $385K + 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.