[Remote] Frontend Software Engineer, Codex App
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are hiring a Frontend Software Engineer to build a top-tier desktop experience for the Codex App, focusing on creating a reliable and high-performance user interface for working with agents.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship polished, high-performance UI across the Codex desktop app and IDE extension
- Partner tightly with design to turn prototypes into production-quality experiences (layout, motion, typography, interaction details)
- Iterate on future interfaces for interacting with agents: delegation, task timelines, status/progress, handoffs, review, and control surfaces
- Own frontend architecture decisions (component systems, state management, navigation, rendering performance)
- Improve quality and reliability through testing, instrumentation, and thoughtful UX for failure modes
- Collaborate with platform/model/backend partners to integrate new capabilities into cohesive product flows
Skills
- Have strong experience with modern frontend stacks (React, TypeScript) and a high bar for UI craft
- Love design engineering: sweating the details while keeping velocity
- Have built desktop-caliber product experiences (Electron or similar), and care about performance, responsiveness, and 'it just feels right.'
- Enjoy exploring ambiguous problems and iterating rapidly with design and product
- Think in end-to-end workflows, not isolated screens
- Have experience with developer tools or IDE extensions (nice-to-have)
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