Software Engineer, Mobile Web — Dots
OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer, Mobile Web — Dots for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $347k-$385k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
Level's read on this job
- Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Pay on this posting starts 107% higher than the typical software engineer posting on Level.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions AI agents and AI research among its tools and skills.
- OpenAI has 810 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
About the Team
Dots is building personal AI agents that help people make progress on their goals, including when they are away from ChatGPT. These agents can learn preferences, maintain context, work across applications, and use cloud computers to carry out tasks.
Our team brings together product engineering, design, and research to turn frontier model capabilities into useful everyday experiences. We are defining how people delegate work, understand what an agent is doing, and stay in control. Engineers help shape both the product and the systems behind it, from early prototypes through launch and iteration.
About the Role
We are looking for Senior and Staff Software Engineers to build the mobile web experience for Dots. You will create responsive, accessible interfaces that let people start work, follow progress, and guide their agents from a phone or browser. You will help establish interaction patterns for ongoing, asynchronous work and make sophisticated agent capabilities feel clear and approachable.
In this role, you will:
Design and ship mobile web experiences for creating tasks, reviewing agent activity, and providing feedback or direction.
Build interfaces that handle streaming updates, long-running tasks, interrupted sessions, and changing connectivity.
Improve responsiveness, loading performance, accessibility, and usability across screen sizes and browsers.
Partner with design and product to prototype interaction patterns that give users visibility and control over agent actions.
Work with backend and full stack engineers on APIs, client state, and reliable synchronization between the interface and agent services.
Own features from exploration and technical design through launch, measurement, and refinement.
Help set frontend architecture and engineering practices while staying hands-on with implementation.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have substantial experience shipping polished web applications, with deep expertise in mobile web development and browser behavior.
Bring strong frontend engineering skills and understand responsive layouts, accessibility, client state, and application performance.
Have built interactive interfaces that stay understandable as data or task state changes asynchronously.
Combine attention to visual and interaction details with sound technical judgment.
Can turn ambiguous product problems into working software and use user feedback to improve it.
Work well with designers, product partners, researchers, and engineers across the stack.
Have led complex projects or influenced architecture while continuing to write and ship code.
Experience with real-time collaboration, offline or intermittent connectivity, or products that help users manage complex workflows is especially relevant.
Prior experience with AI or machine learning is helpful, but not required. We welcome experienced engineers who want to bring strong product and engineering judgment to a new category of software.
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. 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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How we rate this
Software Engineer, Mobile Web — Dots at OpenAI rates 69 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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Pay
- This job starts at
- $347k
- Typical software engineer job
- $168k
This posting starts 107% above the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs
Questions you could be asked
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
- Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
- If you removed AI from this role, what would be left, and how do you decide what still needs a human?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents and AI Research. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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