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Millions of people use ChatGPT each week to explore concepts, practice skills, and work through challenges, making learning one of the platform’s largest consumer use cases.\nWe want ChatGPT to support sustained learning and progress over time, beyond answering individual questions. We’re exploring how AI can make powerful learning tools more accessible, helping people understand the world, develop skills, and pursue their goals.\nOur work brings together product engineering, design, AI research, and education to serve learners around the world.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Principal Software Engineer on the ChatGPT Learning team, you will set technical direction and lead the design and development of products that help millions of people learn with ChatGPT.\nYou’ll remain hands-on across the stack, building polished interfaces and scalable backend services. 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Relocation assistance is available to new employees.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead end-to-end development of learning experiences in ChatGPT, from early exploration through production and iteration.\n\nDrive product and design decisions with product managers and designers, bringing technical insight, user feedback, and sound judgment to priorities and tradeoffs.\n\nSet technical direction for complex initiatives and guide architecture decisions that support rapid experimentation and long-term reliability.\n\nBuild multimodal learning capabilities that combine text, images, voice, and interactive interfaces.\n\nDevelop scalable services and APIs to support learning features throughout ChatGPT.\n\nWork with researchers, platform teams, designers, and engineers to prototype ideas and bring new AI capabilities to users.\n\nImprove performance, reliability, and usability across ChatGPT’s learning surfaces, using experiments and user feedback to guide improvements.\n\nSupport other engineers through mentorship, code reviews, and clear technical guidance.\n\nYou Might Thrive Here If You\nHave 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping high-quality products across the full stack.\n\nHave led complex technical initiatives and made architecture decisions that balance product needs, development speed, and maintainability.\n\nHave experience driving product and design decisions in close partnership with product managers and designers.\n\nEnjoy building consumer products and taking ownership from initial concept through production.\n\nBring clarity to ambiguous problems and translate them into practical product solutions.\n\nHave strong product engineering instincts and care deeply about the quality of the user experience.\n\nHave experience building interactive educational tools or learning products.\n\nHave experience developing AI-powered applications or systems built around large language models.\n\nWant to build products with meaningful global impact and expand access to education and learning opportunities.\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI 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.\nWe 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.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground 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.\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. 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