Front End Software Engineer, Marketing

OpenAI

Location
Remote
Job Type
full-time
Salary
$255K – $405K
Posted
September 22, 2025

Job Description

Marketing tells OpenAI’s story—what we’re doing and why it matters—to the world through a variety of surfaces, most notably openai.com. Our small but nimble and growing team supports the design and development needs across the entire company, and sits within a larger team of professionals in marketing, design and product.

Communicating the advances and benefits of AGI and our products is some of the most important work at OpenAI, and our goal is to do it in a beautiful, accessible, scalable, systematic way, with transparency and authenticity.

 

About the Role

We’re looking for experienced frontend engineers on the marketing eng team who can ship new features to millions of openai.com visitors around the world. You’ll work closely with other engineers on the team, our design partners, as well as cross-functional stakeholders across the company.

In this role, you will:

  • Partner closely with design, marketing, and other cross-functional stakeholders to communicate OpenAI’s mission to the world

  • Design and build efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive a complex web application with millions of visitors a day

  • Plan and deploy front end infrastructure necessary to build, test, and deploy our site

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have experience building production web apps at scale using TypeScript, NextJS / React and other web technologies. Bonus points for solid web fundamentals like native JavaScript and CSS

  • Are comfortable building complex applications and systems from the ground up, with limited development infrastructure available to you

  • Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills. An equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with others

  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary

 

About OpenAI

OpenAI 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. 

We 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.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

🎯 Who is this job for?

This role suits a Senior front-end engineer with strong experience in TypeScript, React/Next.js, and web performance at scale. Ideal candidates are skilled in building complex, high-traffic web applications and enjoy working closely with cross-functional teams in dynamic environments. Familiarity with front-end infrastructure and a proactive mindset for learning and problem-solving are key.

πŸ’¬ Potential Interview Questions

  1. When would you choose SSG, ISR, SSR, or Edge Rendering for a marketing page?
    SSG for mostly-static pages (docs/landings), ISR when content updates periodically via CMS webhooks, SSR for per-request personalization behind cache, and Edge Rendering for ultra-low-latency geo/personalization with minimal origin hops.

  2. How do React Server Components (App Router) help performance on a content-heavy site?
    They fetch and render on the server without shipping fetching code to the client, reducing JS bundle size and waterfalls; pair with Suspense streaming and client boundaries only where interactivity is needed.

  3. What are your top tactics to protect Core Web Vitals at scale?
    Preload the hero image/font, use next/image with responsive sizes and AVIF/WebP, ship fonts via next/font to avoid FOIT/FOUT, minimize long tasks with code-splitting and defer, and stabilize layout to prevent CLS.

  4. How do you implement SEO and social previews correctly in Next.js?
    Use the Metadata API for titles/descriptions/OG/Twitter cards, emit canonical and hreflang tags, add JSON-LD for structured data, maintain dynamic sitemaps/robots, and ensure server-rendered content matches what crawlers see.

  5. How would you run A/B tests without hurting performance or SEO?
    Bucket at the edge (cookie or header), render the variant during SSR/Edge to avoid client flicker, cache by variant key, and log exposures server-side; never show different content to bots than users.

  6. How do you build a privacy-respecting analytics pipeline?
    Prefer server-side or first-party analytics with IP redaction and differential privacy, gate client events behind a CMP consent signal, avoid PII in payloads, and sample high-volume events to control cost.

  7. What’s your approach for a CMS/MDX content pipeline with live preview?
    Use preview mode with draft tokens, render MDX via a safe compiler (sanitize untrusted HTML), trigger revalidateTag()/ISR on publish webhooks, and cache-bust CDN keys using content hashes to avoid stale pages.

  8. How do you localize a high-traffic site?
    Use Next.js i18n routing (domains or prefixes), serve locale-specific metadata and sitemaps, fall back gracefully for missing strings, and keep translation keys stable with extraction and CI checks.

  9. How do you secure a marketing site that embeds third-party scripts?
    Enforce a strict CSP (nonces/hashes, script-src without unsafe-inline), use Subresource Integrity for static third-parties, isolate risky widgets in iframes, enable Trusted Types, and audit/limit tag manager usage.

  10. What infra and CI/CD do you set up for reliability and speed?
    Per-PR preview deploys, Lighthouse and bundle-size budgets in CI, visual regression tests (Playwright), broken-link and a11y checks, edge cache warming on release, and instant rollback via versioned asset manifests.

πŸ“‹ Job Summary

OpenAI is hiring a Front End Software Engineer (Remote - US) to help shape the public face of openai.com. You'll build and scale high-performance web apps using TypeScript, Next.js, and React, collaborating closely with marketing, design, and cross-functional teams. This role offers \$255K–\$405K salary plus equity, 401(k) match, paid parental leave, and wellness support. Join a mission-driven team working to communicate AI's global impact with clarity, transparency, and style.

Required Skills

TypeScript React Next.js