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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher, Training - London Researcher focused on pushing the frontier of LLM development, enhancing intelligence, efficiency, and adding new capabilities through research into architecture design, long-context, efficient attention, optimization, and scaling. The role involves designing, prototyping, and scaling new architectures, executing and analyzing experiments, optimizing model and computational performance, and contributing to training and inference infrastructure. Experience with major LLM training runs and evaluating deep learning architectures is desired. | Pretrain | 10 |
| Manager, AI Deployment Engineering - Codex Manager for AI Deployment Engineering focused on the Codex product, responsible for leading a team that helps customers integrate and scale AI coding tools into their software development lifecycle. The role involves technical leadership, customer engagement strategy, and partnering with product and research teams to drive adoption and gather feedback. |
| Ship |
| 9 |
| AI Deployment Engineer - Startups AI Deployment Engineer role focused on working with strategic startup customers to optimize AI systems, identify failure modes, and translate learnings into product improvements and evaluation systems. This role involves prototyping prompts and agents, designing evaluations, and acting as a technical partner to customers. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - London Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering team responsible for partnering with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems, owning end-to-end delivery outcomes, and informing roadmap priorities through fieldwork. Requires experience managing customer-facing engineers and leading high-pressure technical projects. | Ship | 9 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises by acting as a senior technical counterpart to AWS field leadership. The engineer will shape strategy, define engagement models, and build repeatable systems to scale adoption of OpenAI-powered solutions, guiding customers from ideation to production and enabling partners to independently drive deployments. The role involves designing AI architectures, building prototypes, establishing best practices for production-ready GenAI systems, and enabling the AWS ecosystem through scalable technical motions. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer | Codex AI Deployment Engineer focused on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by designing, implementing, and scaling AI-enhanced development workflows. This role involves acting as a technical partner, building demos and integrations, leading workshops, and gathering customer feedback to influence product direction. | Ship | 8 |
| Training, Process Management Engineer OpenAI's Training Runtime team is seeking a Process Management Engineer to build and maintain the distributed OS responsible for launching, coordinating, and supervising large-scale machine learning training workloads. This role involves working with Rust and Python to create high-performance, reliable, and observable systems that enable researchers to scale ideas from experiments to production training runs on massive clusters. | Data | 8 |
| Engineering Manager ChatGPT Infra Engineering Manager to found and lead the ChatGPT Infrastructure team in London. This role involves building and scaling core runtime primitives and infrastructure for new ChatGPT experiences, requiring high ownership, technical leadership, and startup-style problem solving. The manager will establish engineering culture, hire and develop the team, and own system reliability. | Serve | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Platform Systems Software Engineer on the Platform Systems team at OpenAI, responsible for designing and building distributed systems for failure detection, tracing, and observability to support large-scale AI model training. The role focuses on improving the reliability, performance, and visibility of OpenAI's training infrastructure. | Data | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - London This role focuses on leading end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models for strategic customers, involving discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout. The engineer will build full-stack systems, embed with customer teams, and contribute code when necessary, with success measured by production adoption, workflow impact, and feedback that influences product and model roadmaps. The role requires experience with LLMs or generative models and delivering complex systems in ambiguous environments. | Agent | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Large Enterprise AI Deployment Engineer role focused on post-sale customer engagement to ensure safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, helping customers build and execute AI adoption strategies, identify and prioritize GenAI use cases, and guide projects from prototype to production. Responsibilities include serving as a technical subject matter expert, engaging with senior stakeholders, providing architectural guidance, building prototypes, and contributing to knowledge sharing. | Ship | 7 |
| Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering - UK This role involves investigating sophisticated threat actors targeting OpenAI's models and systems, building tooling and AI-assisted workflows to scale analysis, and translating findings into security improvements. The focus is on understanding adversary behavior, identifying misuse, and developing proactive defenses. | Agent | 7 |
| Data Scientist, Integrity Measurement Data Scientist focused on measuring and responding to adversarial threats and misuse on OpenAI's platforms, developing AI-first methods for prevalence estimation and productionised safety metrics, and optimizing LLM prompts for measurement. This role involves owning measurement and metrics for severe harm verticals, informing improvements to detection and enforcement, and leveraging agentic products for automation. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations - London Software Engineer role focused on building scaled foundational systems for detecting, tracking, and enforcing harm on OpenAI's platforms, leveraging advanced AI technologies to automate and augment these processes. The role involves collaboration with various experts and staying ahead of adversarial threats. | Agent | 7 |
| Product Manager, Integrity Product Manager for OpenAI's Integrity team, focusing on scaling product efforts and technical strategy to combat scaled abuse and novel misuse of AI services like ChatGPT, API, and Sora. Requires close collaboration with product, safety, policy, operations, and engineering teams to build tooling and infrastructure for detection and prevention of policy violations. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Codex Ecosystem & Enterprise Software Engineer focused on building the ecosystem, enterprise capabilities, and product experiences for Codex, an AI software engineer. This role involves working across the full stack to enable deployment, operation, and trust of Codex in demanding real-world environments, including integrating with enterprise identity and governance systems, and leading customer deployments. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations This role focuses on designing and building systems to proactively identify and enforce abuse on OpenAI's products, including developing abuse monitoring for new and existing products, and prototyping systems for detection, review, and enforcement. It involves investigating critical escalations and working cross-functionally with product, policy, and engineering teams. The role requires technical analysis, data engineering, and machine learning principles, with an emphasis on scaling and automating processes, particularly with language models. | Agent | 7 |
| Recruiter, AI/ML Research EMEA Recruiter role focused on identifying, engaging, and recruiting top AI/ML researchers and technical scientists for OpenAI's research organization. This role acts as a strategic partner to research staff, helping define hiring priorities, shape search strategies, and influence hiring decisions. It requires deep interest in AI research and experience recruiting in highly technical environments. | — | 5 |
| Regional Sales Manager, Ads Solutions EMEA Regional Sales Manager for OpenAI's advertising business in EMEA, focusing on revenue growth, strategic partnerships, and scaling the business across Europe. This role involves leading a team, developing regional strategies, and collaborating with product and engineering teams. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Manager, Core This role focuses on enabling enterprise organizations to adopt and operationalize OpenAI products, including ChatGPT Enterprise and Agents. The AI Deployment Manager will design and deliver enablement services, workshops, and training programs to drive customer activation, sustained usage, and measurable business value. The role requires strong product fluency, instructional design, and customer advisory skills, partnering closely with sales and product teams to ensure successful adoption and gather customer feedback. | Ship | 5 |
| Strategic Delivery Lead, International Public Sector This role focuses on leading complex deployments of OpenAI's AI platform and ChatGPT Enterprise with public sector customers outside the US. The Strategic Delivery Lead will partner with government stakeholders, internal technical and engineering teams, and other departments to ensure successful adoption and delivery of AI solutions, meeting technical, policy, security, and sovereignty requirements. The role requires strong program management, technical fluency, and the ability to translate institutional problems into practical AI deployments. | — | 5 |
| VC Partnerships Manager OpenAI is seeking a VC Partnerships Manager to join their Startups Go To Market team. The role involves managing relationships with venture capital funds and startup accelerators to support their portfolio companies in leveraging OpenAI's AI products. Responsibilities include developing adoption strategies, providing technical guidance, representing OpenAI at events, analyzing metrics, and advocating for improved startup experiences. The ideal candidate has a technical understanding of AI, experience managing external relationships, and a passion for the startup ecosystem. | — | 5 |
| Operations Analyst, User Operations (Trust & Safety) - EMEA This role focuses on user safety and risk operations within OpenAI's User Operations team. The analyst will triage and resolve complex user issues, conduct risk evaluations, manage incidents, and improve operational workflows. A key aspect is identifying repetitive tasks and prototyping automation using AI tools, no-code platforms, or scripting, in collaboration with technical teams. The role requires strong analytical skills, systems thinking, and the ability to operationalize ambiguous risk signals. While the role uses AI tools and collaborates with technical teams on automation, its core function is operational risk management and product safety, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - London This role focuses on partnering with customers to build and deploy custom software solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs. The engineer will embed with clients, design and develop full-stack solutions, and act as a technical advisor, contributing to the scaling of customer delivery and providing feedback to internal teams. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Detection and Response - EMEA Security Engineer focused on Detection and Response for OpenAI's infrastructure, products, and research environments. The role involves building and operating systems to detect suspicious activity, automate response, and partner with other teams to ensure security requirements are met. It also includes evaluating and responding to emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab, with a specific mention of agents operating across infrastructure at scale. | — | 5 |
| Program Manager, Technology Capital Builds This role is for a Program Manager responsible for executing Technology Capital Builds at OpenAI. The role involves coordinating with various internal teams (Real Estate, IT, Security) and external partners to design and deliver technical solutions for facility build-outs, including offices, labs, and datacenters. Key responsibilities include ensuring secure and reliable network infrastructure, AV systems, and physical security, managing project scope, schedule, budget, and quality, and providing portfolio status visibility. The role requires strong project management skills, knowledge of construction processes, and vendor management experience. | — | 0 |
| Start-up Communications Manager, EMEA OpenAI is seeking a PR professional to support start-up, developer, and B2B communications across EMEA. This role will build awareness, understanding, and trust with founders, developers, and business audiences by showcasing how OpenAI helps companies build and scale, and how developers use their technology. Responsibilities include leading the EMEA communications program for start-up and B2B teams, managing campaigns and events, preparing briefing materials, and building relationships with media and influencers. | — | 0 |
| B2B Partner Marketer, EMEA Marketing role focused on B2B partner marketing in EMEA, responsible for translating global priorities into regional programs to drive awareness, pipeline, and customer adoption through strategic partners. The role involves shaping joint marketing strategy, building operating models, and executing go-to-market plans with partners like AWS, Accenture, and BCG. | — | 0 |
| International Benefits Lead This role is for an International Benefits Manager at OpenAI, responsible for designing, implementing, and scaling benefits programs worldwide. The focus is on managing, optimizing, and governing the international benefits portfolio, including leading renewals, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring competitiveness and compliance. The role requires strong program management skills and expertise in international benefits. | — | 0 |
| Head of GTM Partnerships, EMEA OpenAI is seeking an experienced EMEA GTM Partnerships Lead to build and scale its partner ecosystem across Europe. This role will own the regional partnerships strategy and execution, focusing on driving enterprise adoption, revenue growth, and customer success through strategic alliances with GSIs, consulting firms, cloud providers, and other service providers. The lead will be responsible for partner strategy, revenue generation, ecosystem development, operational excellence, and team leadership, ultimately aiming to establish OpenAI as the foundational AI platform for enterprises in Europe. | — | 0 |
| Physical Security Systems Engineer This role is for a Physical Security Systems Engineer at OpenAI, responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining physical security systems such as access control, video surveillance, and GSOC workflows across global facilities. The role involves troubleshooting technical issues, managing operational tickets, coordinating with integrators and vendors, and partnering with IT/NetEng and Workplace teams to ensure system reliability and scalability. The focus is on hybrid physical security infrastructure engineering, operational systems support, stakeholder coordination, and vendor management, aiming to improve operational consistency and reduce manual work through automation opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Corporate Security Operations Manager, London This role is for a Corporate Security Operations Manager in London, responsible for leading day-to-day corporate and physical security operations for OpenAI's London office. The role involves managing access control, visitor management, incident response, security vendors, and partnering with various internal teams to ensure a safe workplace. It requires 8+ years of experience in corporate security or related fields, with a focus on managing office-based physical security and vendor operations. | — | 0 |
| Executive Recruiter, International Experienced International Executive Recruiter to lead searches across OpenAI’s Business organization, focusing on EMEA and APAC hiring. This role partners with hiring leaders to define needs, shape search strategy, understand regional talent markets, and engage senior candidates. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Manager, Ads Solutions Customer Success Manager for OpenAI's advertising platform, focusing on advertiser onboarding, growth, and relationship management. | — | 0 |
| Regional Client Partner, Ads Solutions This role is focused on driving new and expanded advertising revenue and ensuring successful business results for advertisers. You 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. You’ll work closely with Customer Success Managers and key cross-functional partners to ensure advertisers achieve successful outcomes after the sale, while maintaining primary ownership of revenue growth and commercial strategy. | — | 0 |
| Head of EMEA Partnerships This role is responsible for identifying, developing, and executing a regional partnership strategy that accelerates adoption of OpenAI’s products across consumer, developer, and B2B channels in EMEA. The candidate will own strategic partnerships, negotiate deals, lead senior partner relationships, and collaborate with internal teams like Product, Engineering, GTM, Legal, and Policy. | — | 0 |
| Account Director, Startups Account Director for Startups at OpenAI, focusing on helping startups leverage OpenAI's AI platform and APIs to build and scale their businesses. This role involves relationship management, driving adoption, managing revenue targets, and collaborating with internal teams to support customer success. | — | 0 |
| Sourcer, Forward Deployed Engineering - London This role is for a Sourcer within the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) recruitment team at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is to identify and attract top talent for technical roles such as FDE, software engineers, and machine learning engineers. The role involves building sourcing strategies, engaging passive candidates, managing candidate pipelines, and representing OpenAI at events. It requires significant experience in technical sourcing and a data-driven approach. | — | 0 |
| Recruiter, Forward Deployed Engineering - London Recruiter responsible for full-cycle hiring for the Forward Deployed Engineering team at OpenAI, a company focused on AI research and deployment. This role involves shaping hiring strategy, sourcing, evaluation, and ensuring a positive candidate experience, while collaborating with internal teams like HR, Legal, and Compensation. | — | 0 |
| HRBP EMEA OpenAI is seeking a seasoned HR Business Partner to support its growing teams across the EMEA region. This role serves as a trusted partner to regional leaders, combining strong operational execution with thoughtful business judgment to support performance, organizational health, and disciplined people practices at scale. The HRBP will be the primary regional execution partner, translating strategic direction into consistent delivery, elevating manager capability, and proactively surfacing people risks and themes. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining the core cloud infrastructure that supports OpenAI's products like ChatGPT and the API. This includes Kubernetes clusters, deployment, networking, and cloud abstractions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. | — | 0 |
| Data Scientist, Safety | — | — |
| Solutions Engineer, Large Enterprise | — | — |