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# Frontend Software Engineer, Codex App

- **Company:** OpenAI Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Applications, Programming Tools, TypeScript, ReactJS, Backend, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/86498808/1

## About the Role

* 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).

## Description

We're hiring a Frontend Software Engineer to build a top-tier desktop experience and push forward the interface for working with agents. This is a craft-heavy role: you'll partner closely with design to prototype, iterate, and polish new interaction models - then turn them into reliable, high-performance product.

You'll help define what great looks like for "human agent" collaboration: what belongs in the UI, how state is represented, how progress and uncertainty are communicated, and how users stay oriented across long-running and multi-step work.

What You'll Do

 * 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.