Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT Partnerships

OpenAI · San Francisco
full-time mid

About this role

ABOUT THE TEAM The ChatGPT team operates at the intersection of research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to a global audience. Within ChatGPT, the Growth Partnerships team is dedicated to expanding distribution, unlocking new user acquisition channels, and building high-leverage integrations that deliver ChatGPT to users where they are. Working closely with external partners and internal platform teams, we design product experiences, APIs, and growth surfaces that scale adoption while upholding trust and safety. Our work is multidisciplinary—merging product, engineering, and business impact to transform partnerships into sustainable growth engines for ChatGPT. ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking an experienced Full Stack Engineer to join the ChatGPT Growth Partnerships team and help establish the technical foundation that underpins partner-led growth. You will work on end-to-end product experiences—including frontend applications, backend services, APIs, experimentation, and data—that facilitate seamless integrations, onboarding, activation, and monetization through partners. This high-impact role is ideal for engineers who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous settings, can move from concept to launch, make sound product and technical judgments, and deliver quickly while maintaining robust engineering standards. RESPONSIBILITIES - Build and own full-stack product experiences supporting partner integrations, onboarding flows, activation funnels, and growth surfaces. - Design and develop backend services and APIs for scalable, secure partner experiences. - Collaborate with product, partnerships, design, data science, and research teams to translate strategy into shipped product. - Lead experimentation initiatives (A/B tests, metrics, instrumentation) to understand drivers of adoption, retention, and value through partnerships. - Identify leverage points where small technical innovations can unlock significant growth impact. - Establish best practices for building extensible, partner-friendly systems at scale. - Contribute to a culture of ownership, clarity, inclusiveness, and thoughtful debate within engineering. YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU - Have delivered full-stack features on the web that drive user acquisition, activation, or monetization (e.g., onboarding, integrations, dashboards, purchase flows). - Are comfortable with frontend and backend development, including API and service design, as well as data flows. - Think with a system-level perspective and focus on scalability and long-term robustness. - Are highly analytical, experienced in experiment design, and able to connect technical work to business outcomes. - Enjoy navigating ambiguity and structuring new problem areas. - Possess strong product intuition and prioritize user- and developer-friendly experiences. - Are motivated by impact and inspired to help shape how partnerships fuel ChatGPT’s growth. Location: San Francisco, New York, or Seattle Work Type: Full-time Join us to help grow the ChatGPT partner ecosystem and reach millions of users through thoughtful engineering and product leadership. 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 assignm