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Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Ecosystem (Apps Platform & SDK)

OpenAI

OpenAI

Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA · New York, NY, USA · Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Feb 10, 2026

Location

San Francisco, Seattle, New York City

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Applied AI

Compensation

  • $185K – $490K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-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.

About the Team

Ecosystem is one of our major bets this year to turn ChatGPT into a true super-assistant. We’re building the platform that millions of developers (and eventually end-users) will use to make ChatGPT infinitely more useful—through powerful tooling, SDKs, and platform capabilities that enable an ecosystem of ChatGPT Apps.


About the Role

We’re looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer who enjoys blending front-end and back-end work to ship end-to-end features on the ChatGPT Apps platform and SDK. You’ll partner closely with Product, Security, Trust & Safety, Research, and other engineers to deliver high-quality developer experiences and expand what ChatGPT Apps can do.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and ship mission-critical features in the ChatGPT Apps SDK and broader platform.

  • Collaborate with Product Management, Security, Trust & Safety, Research, and Engineering to design and deliver developer-first experiences.

  • Own features end-to-end: from early design and technical direction through implementation, launch, and iteration.

  • Build scalable services and APIs, and develop polished UI surfaces that support publishing, discovery, and app capabilities.

  • Help set enduring technical direction—shipping foundations that become new product areas over time.

  • Contribute to team best practices in testing, architecture, and overall SDLC quality.

You Might Thrive Here If You

  • You’re a true full-stack engineer—comfortable moving between frontend and backend to deliver complete features (React/Python are a bonus, not required).

  • You’ve built developer tools or platforms (SDKs, integrations like Slack apps, open source libraries, or experience at developer-tooling companies).

  • You’re product-oriented and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional partners to shape great user/developer experiences.

  • You like shipping quickly without compromising quality, security, or performance.

  • You’re excited to build foundational platform capabilities that will scale with a rapidly growing ecosystem.

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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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 Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation Range: $185K - $490K