Software Engineer, Computer Use & Frontier Interfaces

Job details

Work model

Hybrid

Salary

$255K - $405K

Location

San Francisco

Occupation

Software Developers(O*NET 15-1252.00)

Hiring context

How this role compares at OpenAI

OpenAI has 781 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 14 job families, and 297 of them are in engineering. 650 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 83%.

This role's posted range of $255K - $405K sits above 58% of the 637 other OpenAI roles quoted over the same currency and period.

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What the role asks for

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Job description

About the team The Computer Use and New Interfaces team is focused on discovering and building the next generation of AI-native interfaces. We believe that the value of AI is increasingly constrained not by model capabilities, but by the ways people interact with those capabilities. Our mission is to create new interaction paradigms that unlock the full potential of AI and integrate it more deeply into people's lives and work. Our team does both near-term product development and longer-term product incubation that can influence experiences across ChatGPT, Codex, future OpenAI products, and emerging device platforms. We work in a highly collaborative, design-driven environment where engineering, product, and design operate as one team. We value rapid experimentation, prototyping, and iteration, creating the shortest possible path between an idea, a working system, and a product decision. About the role We're looking for exceptional engineers who are excited to invent entirely new ways for people to interact with AI. You'll work at the intersection of engineering, product, and design to explore, prototype, and build novel interface concepts that push beyond traditional software paradigms. This role requires comfort with ambiguity, strong product instincts, and a willingness to move fluidly between experimentation and production systems. You'll help shape both the capabilities and the user experiences that define how people engage with AI. In this role you will: - Design, prototype, and build novel AI-native interfaces and interaction models. - Develop foundational technologies and frameworks that enable generative UI and computer use experiences. - Collaborate closely with designers, product thinkers, and engineers to rapidly explore and validate new concepts. - Build end-to-end prototypes and production systems that can influence future OpenAI products. - Contribute to platform technologies that can be adopted across multiple product surfaces. - Help establish technical direction and engineering best practices for an incubation-stage team. - Participate in a highly iterative development process focused on learning, experimentation, and user feedback. You might thrive in this role if you: - Have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building user-facing products. - Enjoy working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the path forward is not always obvious. - Have experience with Apple platforms, Windows, or desktop development - Are excited by zero-to-one product development and early-stage exploration. - Have a strong product sense and enjoy thinking deeply about user experience and interaction design. - Can rapidly prototype ideas while also building robust, scalable systems when needed. - Are energized by cross-functional collaboration and enjoy working closely with design and product partners. - Are curious about how AI will transform software and motivated to help define what comes next. - Believe that breakthrough products emerge from tight feedback loops between ideas, prototypes, technology, and users. 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 https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf. 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. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form https://form.asana.com/?d=57018692298241&k=5MqR40fZd7jlxVUh5J-UeA. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy https://cdn.openai.com/policies/global-employee-and-contractor-privacy-policy.pdf 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.