# Software Engineer, Codex — User Activation

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $230K - $385K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

The base pay for this role is $230K – $385K, with additional equity and benefits.

Benefits include:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend

- Daily meals in our offices and meal delivery credits

- Relocation support for eligible employees

## About the Team

The Codex team builds AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents. The User Activation team focuses on product experiences that help developers discover Codex, understand its capabilities, and integrate it into their workflows.

## About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Codex User Activation team, you will build full-stack product surfaces that drive activation and adoption across Codex Enterprise. This involves working on onboarding, workspace setup, integrations, discovery, collaboration, and usage insights.

## Responsibilities

- Build onboarding, setup, and discovery experiences that help developers quickly connect Codex to their repositories, tools, and workflows.

- Create product surfaces that help users discover Codex capabilities.

- Develop full-stack systems across web, IDEs, CLI, and integrations.

- Partner with product and design to run experiments and understand activation funnels.

- Work directly with customers to translate real-world adoption challenges into scalable product capabilities.

## Requirements

- Strong full-stack software engineering fundamentals

- Experience building polished, production-grade user experiences

- Comfortable working across frontend and backend systems

- Experience with technologies such as React, TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar tools

- Care deeply about user experience and can turn ambiguous customer problems into simple product flows

## Nice to Have

- Experience building onboarding, activation, growth, collaboration, discovery, or developer-product experiences

- Comfortable using data, experimentation, and user feedback to guide product decisions

- Enjoy working across product, design, engineering, analytics, and customer-facing teams

## About OpenAI

OpenAI is committed to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

## Skills

### Required
- full-stack software engineering
- React
- TypeScript
- Python
- Go

### Nice to have
- onboarding
- activation
- growth
- collaboration
- discovery
- developer-product experiences

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