OpenAI
Software Engineer, Codex — User Activation
San Francisco · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoReactBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentA/B TestingResearchCollaboration
About the role
- It is helping developers and teams quickly understand how Codex fits into their work, connect it to the tools and codebases they already use, and unlock workflows that make Codex feel like a true teammate.
- You will work across onboarding, workspace setup, integrations, discovery, collaboration, usage insights, and ecosystem capabilities that help Codex spread naturally through organizations.
- One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively.
Responsibilities
- Build onboarding, setup, and discovery experiences that help developers quickly connect Codex to their repositories, tools, environments, and existing workflows.
- Create product surfaces that help users discover Codex capabilities, including plugins, skills, integrations, templates, recommendations, and workflow entry points.
- Build collaborative team experiences that make Codex easier to adopt across organizations, including workspace setup, invitations, sharing, team-level configuration, and usage visibility.
- Partner with product and design to run experiments, understand activation funnels, identify adoption blockers, and iterate quickly based on real user behavior.
- Have strong full-stack software engineering fundamentals and experience building polished, production-grade user experiences.
- Have experience building onboarding, activation, growth, collaboration, discovery, or developer-product experiences.
- Enjoy working across product, design, engineering, analytics, and customer-facing teams.
Requirements
- Develop full-stack systems across web, IDEs, CLI, and integrations, balancing polished user experience with reliable backend architecture.
Nice to have
- Are comfortable working across frontend and backend systems, ideally with technologies such as React, TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar tools.
Company info
- With Codex we're building an AI software engineer.
- Our team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI, bringing together research, engineering, design, and product.
- We iteratively build the Codex agent harness and product to get the most out of the model, and we iteratively train the model to be great at complex software engineering tasks.
- The Codex team is responsible for building state-of-the-art AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non-developers alike.
- We operate across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure; owning the full lifecycle of experimentation, deployment, and iteration on novel coding capabilities.
- Codex Enterprise builds the ecosystem, governance, and enterprise capabilities that help Codex spread across developers, teams, and organizations worldwide.
- The User Activation team owns the product experiences that help developers discover Codex, understand its capabilities, connect it to their workflows, and turn initial usage into sustained adoption across teams.
- Work directly with customers, GTM, and Forward Deployed teams to translate real-world adoption challenges into scalable product capabilities.
This listing is sourced directly from OpenAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.