OpenAI · 18 hours ago
Full Stack Engineer, Health AI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Health AI team is seeking full stack software engineers to help build and scale products aimed at improving health outcomes and expanding access to medical expertise.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable fullstack systems for consumer and enterprise health
Own end-to-end feature development—from early design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
Build and maintain data pipelines and services that meet strict privacy, security, and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA)
Collaborate closely with researchers and safety teams to integrate reliability, evaluation, and guardrails into production systems
Debug, optimize, and harden systems to support high availability, performance, and global scale
Take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them to practical, high-quality solutions
Qualification
Required
Design and build scalable fullstack systems for consumer and enterprise health
Own end-to-end feature development—from early design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
Build and maintain data pipelines and services that meet strict privacy, security, and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA)
Collaborate closely with researchers and safety teams to integrate reliability, evaluation, and guardrails into production systems
Debug, optimize, and harden systems to support high availability, performance, and global scale
Take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them to practical, high-quality solutions
Are deeply motivated by improving health outcomes and expanding access to medical expertise
Are a strong engineer who enjoys building durable, well-designed systems
Have 2+ years of experience writing maintainable, production-quality code
Can operate with high agency—owning problems end-to-end with minimal supervision
Enjoy working in fast-moving, cross-functional teams with engineers, product managers, designers, and researchers
Are comfortable doing unglamorous but essential work when it is needed for the mission (e.g., compliance, data plumbing, reliability)
Stay goal-oriented rather than tool-oriented, choosing what works over what is fashionable
Are thoughtful about the societal impact of AI and aligned with OpenAI's mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity
Preferred
Strong product engineering instincts—able to take a rough spec and ship a polished solution
Entrepreneurial drive or previous experience as a founder
Prior experience with health-related products
High-quality public code (e.g., GitHub projects, open-source contributions)
Experience building compliant or regulated products (healthcare, enterprise, finance, or similar)
Experience with distributed systems, backend architecture, or large-scale data pipelines
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
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