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Software Engineer, Full Stack — Dots

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · New York City

Employer listed it 10 days ago · Added 8 days ago

First listed 10 days ago and still open.

Salary

$347k to $385k per year

Location

Hybrid · New York City

Work style

Async

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

What the advert says

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Working hours: This role combines hands-on product development with the systems work needed to make persistent, asynchronous agent experiences reliable.
Where you can work from: Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco…
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Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around New York City, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "New York City, Hybrid"
Listing mentions "Hybrid"

What Nomaders makes of it

Not suitable if you plan to move between countries

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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a requirement

“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.”

Written as a nice-to-have

“Prior experience with AI or machine learning is helpful, but not required.”

Questions worth asking: Nomaders interpretation

This role involves office time, but the advert does not say how often. Ask how many days a week are expected on site.
The advert does not say whether this is employment or a contractor arrangement. Ask, as it affects tax and benefits.

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About the role

About the Team

Dots is building personal AI agents that help people make progress on their goals, including when they are away from ChatGPT. These agents can learn preferences, maintain context, work across applications, and use cloud computers to carry out tasks.

Our team brings together product engineering, design, and research to turn frontier model capabilities into useful everyday experiences. We are defining how people delegate work, understand what an agent is doing, and stay in control. Engineers help shape both the product and the systems behind it, from early prototypes through launch and iteration.

About the Role

We are looking for Senior and Staff Full Stack Software Engineers to build Dots product experiences from the interface through the services that power them. You will help define how people delegate tasks to personal agents, follow their progress, and collaborate with them over time. This role combines hands-on product development with the systems work needed to make persistent, asynchronous agent experiences reliable.

In this role, you will:

Build and launch features across web interfaces, APIs, backend services, and data models.

Create workflows for task creation, progress updates, agent feedback, and results that remain coherent across sessions and devices.

Translate emerging model capabilities into product prototypes with research, product, and design partners.

Design clear interfaces between product surfaces and agent execution systems.

Improve performance and reliability across the stack, including user-facing latency and recovery from partial failures.

Own projects from early exploration through architecture, implementation, launch, and iteration based on user feedback.

Help establish technical direction, testing practices, and observability as the product grows.

You might thrive in this role if you:

Have significant experience building and shipping products across frontend and backend systems.

Can move comfortably between user interfaces, service design, APIs, and data modeling.

Bring strong product instincts and care about making complex capabilities understandable to users.

Have taken ambiguous ideas from concept to production and made practical tradeoffs between iteration speed and long-term maintainability.

Understand asynchronous workflows and can reason about state, consistency, and failure across system boundaries.

Collaborate effectively with design, product, research, and engineering partners.

Have owned complex engineering projects and helped other engineers make sound technical decisions.

Experience launching new consumer products, building agent or workflow applications, or working in small teams with broad engineering ownership is especially relevant.

Prior experience with AI or machine learning is helpful, but not required. We welcome experienced engineers who want to bring strong product and engineering judgment to a new category of software.

About OpenAI

Requirements

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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 and working hours (Async).
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