Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 29% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $230k–$555k (avg $372k).
OpenAI currently has 235 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are in the application stage, accounting for 32% of the total, followed closely by the agents stage at 29%. The dominant function for hiring is Engineering, with 168 positions. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, evals, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models. In the last 30 days, OpenAI posted 50 new AI roles, representing a 14% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
OpenAI currently has 254 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Deployment Engineer (4), Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS (4), AI Deployment Engineer - Startups (3), AI Deployment Engineer- Codex (3), AI Deployment Engineer, Startups (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
OpenAI's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (33%), agents (28%), serving infrastructure (10%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
OpenAI is hiring AI talent in: United States (203 roles), United Kingdom (14 roles), Japan (6 roles), Germany (5 roles).
Job postings at OpenAI most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, evals, llm observability, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, OpenAI has posted 56 new AI-related roles.
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| Forward Deployed Engineer - Sydney Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside strategic customers. This role involves discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. Success is measured by production adoption, workflow impact, and feedback that influences product and model roadmaps. The FDE will contribute to both customer delivery and core platform development, working closely with various internal teams and potentially contributing code directly. The role requires strong engineering and deployment experience, particularly with LLMs or generative models, and the ability to manage complex systems in ambiguous environments. | AgentServe | 9 |
| AI Deployment Engineer AI Deployment Engineer role focused on partnering with strategic platform customers to identify, design, and implement Generative AI solutions using OpenAI's API and models. The role involves technical guidance, building prototypes, and ensuring successful deployment and scaling of AI applications. |
| Agent |
| 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead - Sydney Founding role in Sydney for a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) on the Forward Deployed Engineering team. The TDL will define how OpenAI delivers complex AI systems to customers, owning their build, shipment, and adoption. This involves translating business outcomes into technical plans, managing day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partnering with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. The role requires deep technical project management expertise, ownership of outcomes, and the ability to immerse in customer workflows to solve complex engineering problems at pace. Success is measured by customer impact, adoption, delivery reliability, and operating leverage. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Startups AI Deployment Engineer focused on working with strategic startup customers to optimize their AI systems, translate insights into product improvements, and design evaluations. This role involves prototyping prompts, agents, and workflows, and synthesizing feedback for OpenAI's research and product teams. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | Sydney This role focuses on helping enterprise customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by acting as a technical partner. The engineer will design, validate, and scale AI workflows, build demos and integrations, and provide technical enablement. The role involves deep customer engagement, influencing product direction, and contributing to technical content. | Ship | 8 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises, primarily through a strategic partnership with AWS. The engineer will act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from experimentation to production-scale AI systems, shaping strategy, defining engagement models, and building repeatable systems. Responsibilities include leading technical strategy for large engagements, designing end-to-end AI architectures, building prototypes, and enabling AWS and partners through scalable technical motions. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer AI Success Engineer role at OpenAI, partnering with enterprise customers to drive adoption and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform. Responsibilities include technical relationship management, enablement, use case identification, deployment planning, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires deep technical knowledge of AI products, APIs, and integration patterns, with strong project management and customer advisory skills. | Ship | 7 |
| Sales Strategy and Operations, ANZ This role is for a Sales Strategy and Operations professional at OpenAI, focusing on guiding Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy and driving operational efficiency to help customers leverage AI products. The role involves analyzing trends, optimizing processes, managing territory allocation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to accelerate business growth. It requires strong analytical, project management, and communication skills, with an understanding of the AI landscape. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, Education Account Director for Education at OpenAI, responsible for driving sales of ChatGPT Enterprise to educational institutions. This role involves managing the full sales cycle, partnering with internal teams, and acting as a thought leader in AI for education. | — | 5 |
| GTM Readiness Lead This role is focused on building and managing sales enablement programs and collateral to help Go-To-Market (GTM) teams understand and deploy OpenAI's AI products. It involves defining enablement strategies, partnering with various teams to create resources, managing training calendars, and delivering training sessions. The role requires experience in building programs from scratch for scaling GTM teams, strong project management, communication, and a blend of technical depth and strategic thinking, with an understanding of the AI landscape. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Detection and Response Security Engineer focused on building and operating systems for detecting suspicious activity and responding to security incidents across OpenAI's infrastructure, products, and research environments. The role involves engineering detection pipelines, automating response workflows, partnering with other teams, and evaluating emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, Mid-Market Account Director responsible for managing mid-market accounts, driving sales cycles, and helping customers leverage OpenAI's AI products. This role involves technical understanding, partnership building, and revenue target ownership. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Manager, Ads Solutions Customer Success Manager for OpenAI's advertising platform, focusing on advertiser onboarding, growth, and product adoption. This role involves relationship management, strategic recommendations based on performance data, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance the advertiser experience. | — | 0 |
| Regional Client Partner, Ads Solutions This role is focused on driving new and expanded advertising revenue and ensuring successful business results for advertisers. The individual will own the full sales cycle, from prospecting to deal closure, developing long-term commercial partnerships to help advertisers achieve their business objectives while ensuring a strong and responsible experience on our platform. The role involves working closely with Customer Success Managers and cross-functional partners to ensure advertisers achieve successful outcomes after the sale, while maintaining primary ownership of revenue growth and commercial strategy. | — | 0 |
| Sales Manager, Enterprise - Australia & New Zealand Sales Manager for OpenAI's Enterprise segment in Australia & New Zealand, responsible for driving sales strategy, leading a team of sales professionals, and achieving successful customer deployments of AI products. | — | 0 |