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Full-Stack Software Engineer, Incubation | OpenAI Careers Full-Stack Software Engineer, Incubation Applied AI Engineering - San Francisco About the Team The Incubation team explores and develops new product ideas at their earliest stages — identifying opportunities, rapidly testing concepts, and building the foundations for future OpenAI products. Operating as a 0→1 innovation group, the team works across problem spaces to discover where advances in AI can unlock entirely new user experiences. We operate with a startup-like mindset inside OpenAI: small teams, fast iteration cycles, and a willingness to explore bold ideas, learn quickly, and pivot based on real-world signals. Our goal is to turn promising concepts into validated products that can scale to global impact. About the Role As a Full-Stack Software Engineer on the Incubation team, you’ll help imagine, prototype, and build entirely new product experiences within the OpenAI ecosystem. This team moves quickly from idea to experiment to iteration, exploring multiple directions in parallel and investing deeply in the most promising opportunities. You’ll work across the stack—building frontend and backend systems, developing rapid prototypes, and collaborating closely with designers, researchers, and product partners—to bring early-stage ideas to life. This includes developing production systems on top of the high-scale internal platforms that power ChatGPT and the OpenAI API, as well as designing new architectures when existing systems aren’t sufficient. We’re looking for engineers who thrive in small, nimble teams, bring creative product instincts, and pair strong execution with sound technical judgment. You should be comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning from experiments, and helping shape both product direction and technical strategy from the ground up. In this role, you will: Prototype and iterate quickly on new product ideas, exploring how AI can unlock novel user experiences