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Software Engineer, App Development

OpenAI
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States

About the Team

The ChatGPT team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world.

We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, or platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives, fostered by rigorous insights into how people use our products.

About the Role

In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing features end-to-end in a modern MacOS/iOS codebase, and across platforms. You will leverage industry best practices and modern frameworks to deliver amazing experiences to ChatGPT users. You will be responsible for designing and implementing features end-to-end in a modern MacOS/iOS codebase. We’re looking for experienced, talented engineers who love building features 0-to-1.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

  • Partner closely with design and product to conceive, design and build features in ChatGPT for desktop.

  • Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to combine existing best practices with innovative approaches based on modern deep learning to develop industry-leading systems

You might thrive in this role if you: 

  • Have 6+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships)

  • Have significant experience building technically complex features that delight users - especially in Swift and/or C++.

  • Have a passion for building high quality user experiences.

  • Thrive in ambiguity, communicate clearly and concisely, and are always seeking to learn & share.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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