OpenAI
Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 4 months ago · Added 5 days ago
Been open since 4 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$347,000 to $445,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
About the Team
The ChatGPT organization at OpenAI supports our mission by bringing advanced AI capabilities to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The Image Generation team is responsible for one of the fastest-growing experiences in ChatGPT, enabling users to create, edit, and transform images through natural language.
Recent breakthroughs in multimodal AI have dramatically improved image quality, instruction following, editing precision, consistency, and text rendering. We're building the systems and experiences that turn these research advances into products used daily by creators, professionals, businesses, and consumers around the world.
Our team sits at the intersection of research, product, design, and infrastructure. We work closely with model researchers, mobile engineers, frontend engineers, and platform teams to build intuitive experiences and scalable systems that power image generation at global scale. Whether users are creating marketing assets, visualizing ideas, editing photos, designing products, or simply exploring their creativity, our goal is to make visual creation feel as natural as having a conversation.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to join the Image Generation team and help shape the future of AI-powered visual creation.
In this role, you'll own features end-to-end across both frontend and backend systems, building the experiences that enable users to generate, edit, organize, and interact with images inside ChatGPT. You'll work across the entire stack—from highly interactive user interfaces and real-time workflows to backend services, APIs, orchestration systems, and data infrastructure.
This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy moving fluidly between product development and systems engineering, collaborating closely with design, product, and research teams to rapidly bring new AI capabilities to users. You'll help define entirely new interaction paradigms as multimodal AI continues to evolve.
In this role, you will:
Design, build, and launch end-to-end product experiences for image generation and image editing within ChatGPT.
Develop highly interactive frontend experiences that make sophisticated AI capabilities feel intuitive, fast, and delightful.
Build scalable backend services, APIs, and workflows that power image creation, editing, storage, sharing, and retrieval.
Partner closely with researchers to rapidly prototype and productionize new multimodal capabilities.
Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and Engineering teams to identify high-impact opportunities and execute against them.
Own projects from concept through launch, including technical design, implementation, experimentation, measurement, and iteration.
Optimize performance across the stack, from frontend responsiveness and rendering to backend latency, reliability, and scalability.
Design systems that can support millions of users generating and interacting with visual content simultaneously.
Leverage experimentation and user insights to improve engagement, usability, quality, and product outcomes.
Contribute to engineering best practices around architecture, testing, observability, developer productivity, and operational excellence.
Help define the future roadmap for AI-powered creative tools and visual experiences.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have experience building and shipping production-grade applications across both frontend and backend systems.
Are comfortable working with modern web technologies such as React, TypeScript, and contemporary frontend frameworks.
Have experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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