Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 24% 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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| Program Manager, Alignment Program Manager to support OpenAI's alignment and safety ecosystem work through program execution, relationship management, and operational ownership. This role will work closely with alignment leadership to run external-facing programs and partnerships, improve coordination across collaborators, and provide leverage on recurring operational needs in a fast-moving research environment. | — | 5 |
| Value Engineer, AI Success - NYC This role focuses on quantifying and articulating the business value of OpenAI's AI technology for enterprise, education, and government customers. The Value Engineer will build financial and operational business cases, develop repeatable frameworks, ROI models, and value narratives, and establish metrics to track and communicate AI's impact. The goal is to support customer adoption, investment decisions, renewals, and expansion by demonstrating tangible outcomes from AI. | — | 5 |
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| Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Statsig team responsible for building and scaling the core experimentation, rollout, and analytics infrastructure at OpenAI. This role focuses on low-latency distributed systems, high-throughput data ingestion, and large-scale analytics to support product development and model performance monitoring. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Product Senior Software Engineer on the Statsig team responsible for designing and building the core experimentation, rollout, and analytics infrastructure that powers OpenAI's product development stack. This role focuses on enabling teams to safely launch features, run experiments, and understand product/model changes at scale, sitting at the intersection of product engineering and platform infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems Engineering Manager for OpenAI's Online Data team, responsible for building and operating core online database and indexing services for production AI applications like ChatGPT and Codex. Focuses on hyperscale data storage and retrieval technology, distributed query execution, multi-region federation, and performance optimization. | — | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer, Government - Washington, D.C. AI Support Engineer role focused on supporting public sector customers, troubleshooting complex issues, and leveraging AI capabilities to improve internal tooling and operations. The role involves direct customer interaction, partnership with internal teams, and contributing to the scaling of support operations. | Ship | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager, Safety Systems Engineering This role is for a Technical Program Manager on the Safety Systems team at OpenAI. The TPM will be responsible for streamlining the safety stack and integration of safety research and mitigations into ChatGPT and the API. Key responsibilities include managing risk areas, stakeholders, data and compute infrastructure, and internal programs like incident management. The role requires strong technical program management skills, experience with complex technical projects, and knowledge of content integrity and AGI safety. | — | 5 |
| Onboarding & Enablement Program Manager, FDE This role is for an Onboarding & Enablement Program Manager on OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. The FDE team partners with customers to build production-grade AI systems. The Program Manager will be responsible for building, running, and evolving systems that help the FDE team onboard quickly, stay current, and execute consistently as the organization scales. This involves designing onboarding experiences, developing enablement infrastructure, codifying deployment patterns, and measuring program effectiveness. The role aims to enable an AI-first FDE function that scales impact through systems and knowledge sharing. | — | 5 |
| Scaled AI Success Engineer This role supports the post-sales success of a broad portfolio of customers through proactive monitoring, programmatic engagement, and targeted technical & change management intervention. It identifies adoption risk and expansion signals, coordinates pooled resources, and provides hands-on support. The role blends operational execution, customer advisory, technical support, and cross-functional coordination, aiming to maintain strong account health at scale and improve adoption outcomes across customer cohorts. | — | 5 |
| Counsel, Privacy This role supports OpenAI's legal team in developing and leading privacy initiatives for advanced AI products, models, and technologies. The Counsel will engage with research, product, engineering, privacy, and security teams to address privacy, regulatory, and legal risks, build scalable processes for the privacy program, and become an expert in AI privacy matters and policy. | — | 5 |
| Strategy and Operations, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) This role is for a Strategy and Operations Lead within OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. The FDE team partners with customers to build production-grade AI systems, bridging Product, Engineering, Research, and Go-to-Market. The Strategy and Ops Lead will build, run, and evolve the systems that enable the FDE team to execute at scale, focusing on capacity planning, operating rhythms, staffing decisions, and codifying the operating model. This is a senior individual contributor role aimed at scaling the FDE team's operations and impact. | — | 5 |
| Abuse Investigator This role focuses on investigating and mitigating malicious uses and activities on OpenAI's platform, particularly concerning violent attacks, terrorism, and other harmful behaviors. The investigator will develop abuse signals, improve operational workflows, and work with technical teams to enhance data and tooling. The role involves responding to time-sensitive escalations, supporting on-call duties, and communicating findings to stakeholders. While the company is AI-focused, this specific role is centered on abuse investigation and policy enforcement, rather than direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, People Innovation This role is for a Data Scientist within the People Innovation Labs at OpenAI, focusing on building AI-powered systems and products to improve recruiting and employee experience. The role involves defining success metrics, designing experimentation frameworks, and translating data signals into actionable decisions for scaling and intervention. The goal is to create a blueprint for how AI can enhance productivity, culture, and innovation within the organization. | Agent | 5 |
| Learning Systems Data Engineer This role focuses on building the infrastructure for AI-native learning experiences, translating pedagogical goals into production systems like learner models, progress tracking, and adaptive feedback loops. The goal is to ensure millions of people can learn effectively with AI tools. | Ship | 5 |
| Advertising Marketing Science Lead Lead the establishment and scaling of OpenAI's advertiser-facing reporting, measurement, and attribution credibility. This role involves defining measurement strategy, building foundational systems, leading external discussions, and translating complex causal inference into practical guidance for campaign optimization. The role will partner with Product and Engineering to operationalize methodologies into durable measurement tools and reporting infrastructure, while also shaping the external measurement ecosystem. | — | 5 |
| Abuse Investigator (CBRN) This role focuses on investigating and disrupting the misuse of OpenAI's platform, specifically concerning biological and chemical threats. It involves developing abuse signals, conducting investigations using technical skills, and collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders. While the role uses AI tools and contributes to the safety of AI products, its core function is not building or researching AI models themselves. | — | 5 |
| Abuse Investigator - Child Safety This role focuses on investigating and disrupting child exploitation actors using OpenAI's products. It involves analyzing user behavior, developing detection strategies, and supporting enforcement actions. While the role uses AI tools and collaborates with engineering teams to improve tooling, its core function is not building or researching AI models, but rather investigating misuse and ensuring product safety. The role requires domain expertise in online child safety and technical fluency in data analysis tools. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, API Data Scientist on the API team responsible for building measurement systems, defining KPIs, identifying developer friction, evaluating launches, and translating data into product decisions to improve reliability and developer outcomes at scale. This role partners with Product, Engineering, Research, and Finance to ensure trusted metrics and rigorous experimentation. | Ship | 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 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle Software engineers to build custom software leveraging OpenAI's APIs to solve customer problems, working with customers and internal teams to design and implement scalable solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| GTM Enablement Manager This role focuses on translating company and GTM strategy into clear, repeatable execution in the field. You will design and run programs that help teams adopt new selling motions, operationalize launches, and drive measurable impact in pipeline and customer outcomes. You will work closely with GTM leadership and partner across Product Marketing, RevOps, and Product teams to ensure initiatives land clearly and consistently in field execution. The role involves creating and shipping high-quality, field-ready content experiences and AI-native workflows, such as field content packs and playbooks, messaging hubs, e-learning pathways, and training program materials. It also requires ensuring GTM initiatives translate into measurable outcomes, tracking adoption of new motions, pipeline generation, and overall GTM performance, and iterating programs based on field signals and data. Experience using AI tools or building AI-driven workflows for learning programs or to improve GTM productivity, enablement, or operational processes is required. | — | 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 |
| Product Engagement Specialist This role focuses on coordinating product launches, building scalable systems for launch execution and feedback, and implementing automation for manual processes. It involves collaborating cross-functionally and reporting on readiness and feedback performance. While the role mentions LLM-enabled workflows, its core function is product operations and systems building, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| GTM Onboarding Lead OpenAI is seeking a GTM Onboarding Lead to design and scale the onboarding system for their customer-facing teams. This role will define the 0-90 day onboarding architecture, establish learning pathways, and manage a team of onboarding program managers. The goal is to create a durable readiness engine that helps new hires develop product knowledge, AI fluency, and customer engagement skills. | — | 5 |
| Counsel, Product (Research) This role is for a Product Counsel focusing on AI research at OpenAI. The individual will partner with researchers and engineers to address legal risks and develop strategies for AI model development and deployment, focusing on copyright, regulatory, privacy, and other legal issues. The role requires a JD and 5+ years of experience in technology law, with a strong emphasis on copyright and practical, principled problem-solving. | — | 5 |
| Hardware Tools Engineer Develop and evolve the tooling ecosystem for hardware engineers at an AI company, focusing on compilers, IR transformations, simulation, debugging, and automation infrastructure for AI-native silicon. | — | 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 |
| iOS Engineer, ChatGPT Mobile Infrastructure OpenAI is seeking Staff+ iOS engineers to build and evolve the core Swift platform infrastructure for their AI products like ChatGPT, Atlas, and Sora. The role focuses on improving performance, reliability, and developer velocity through foundational frameworks, internal tooling, and automation, enabling other engineers to develop new capabilities faster. This is a platform engineering role supporting AI development. | — | 5 |
| Android Engineer, ChatGPT Mobile Infrastructure Staff+ Android Engineer focused on building the core Kotlin-based platform infrastructure for ChatGPT, Sora, and other Android apps. The role involves enhancing app performance, reliability, and developer velocity, with a focus on AI developer productivity and internal tooling. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Risk Analyst This role focuses on identifying and mitigating strategic risks related to AI abuse and misuse across OpenAI's products. The analyst will monitor internal and external signals, synthesize findings into actionable insights and prioritized recommendations, and collaborate with various teams to ensure product safety and readiness. The role involves developing monitoring capabilities and contributing to risk frameworks. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Business This role is for a Data Scientist on the Business Data Science team at OpenAI, focusing on customer success for business products like ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and API. The role involves identifying opportunities for customer activation, onboarding, and engagement, measuring intervention efficacy, and building self-serve tools for stakeholders. It requires expertise in statistics, causal inference, Python/R, SQL, and BI tools, with a focus on driving business growth and optimizing performance. | — | 5 |
| Product Marketing Manager, Codex Product Marketing Manager for Codex, focusing on driving adoption and growth of AI-assisted development tools for developers. Requires deep familiarity with developer tools, coding workflows, and modern AI-assisted development environments. | — | 5 |
| Compliance Program Manager This role focuses on building and scaling OpenAI's compliance program, translating regulatory requirements into practical processes, driving program execution, and mitigating compliance risk. It involves managing daily operations like disclosures, training, investigations, and controls, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure program effectiveness. The role also emphasizes leveraging AI technology to innovate compliance operations and reduce workload. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Large Enterprise Pre-sales Solutions Engineer for OpenAI's Large Enterprise customers, focusing on demonstrating business value through ChatGPT and API, guiding AI strategy, and recommending architectural patterns. Requires strong technical and communication skills, with experience in pre-sales and Generative AI/ML prototypes. | — | 5 |
| iOS Software Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering Experienced iOS Software Engineer to build and improve the ChatGPT iOS app, integrating with backend and AI systems to deliver seamless mobile experiences. Focus on shipping new features, performance, architecture, and collaboration. | — | 5 |
| Trust & Safety Operations Analyst, Ads This role focuses on building and scaling Trust & Safety Operations for OpenAI's Ads product. It involves designing and implementing operational workflows, enforcement processes, and tooling to ensure the safe and sustainable growth of advertising, leveraging AI-first solutions and AI models/agent-based tooling. The role requires partnering with various teams to translate risk and policy requirements into scalable systems and automation, and using data to identify trends and risks. | — | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer - San Francisco This role is for an AI Support Engineer on the User Operations team at OpenAI. The primary focus is on providing exceptional customer support and technical guidance to customers adopting OpenAI's AI products. The role involves troubleshooting complex issues, improving internal tooling using AI capabilities and scripting, and contributing to the scaling of support operations. While the role uses AI tools and supports AI products, it is not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 5 |
| Research Communications Manager OpenAI is seeking an experienced communications professional to join their Platform & Research Communications team. This role will work closely with the Research Communications Lead and in partnership with applied and engineering teams to shape how OpenAI’s scientific work is understood by researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the broader public. This position is responsible for developing and executing external communications strategies around OpenAI’s research—from foundational model advances to applied science collaborations—ensuring accuracy, nuance, and alignment with OpenAI’s long-term goals. The ideal candidate brings strong science or technical fluency, excellent storytelling instincts, and experience navigating complex, high-stakes narratives. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Marketing Innovation This role focuses on building and measuring internal tools and agentic systems for marketing and customer service. The Data Scientist will define success metrics, design experimentation frameworks, instrument and evaluate launches, and translate signals into actionable decisions to drive business outcomes. | Agent | 5 |
| Platform Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Engineering Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Platform team at OpenAI. This role focuses on scaling the FDE organization's impact by embedding with customer pods to architect, shape, refactor, and build solutions. The manager will lead a team to translate customer signal into durable platform bets and reusable capabilities, partnering with B2B Platform teams and ensuring high engineering standards. The role requires strong product judgment, leadership, and cross-functional execution. | — | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer, Government - San Francisco AI Support Engineer role focused on supporting public sector customers, including U.S. Government agencies with FedRAMP requirements. The role involves troubleshooting complex issues, providing technical guidance, and leveraging AI capabilities to improve internal tooling and automate processes. This position is crucial for scaling the support organization and ensuring customer success with OpenAI's AI products. | Ship | 5 |
| Account Director, Government Account Director for Government sector, responsible for managing key accounts, driving sales cycles, and achieving revenue targets. This role involves understanding customer needs, partnering with technical teams to build solutions, and contributing to product strategy. | — | 5 |
| Product Manufacturing Engineer This role focuses on product manufacturing engineering for AI supercomputers, specifically concerning PCB and PCBA manufacturing and process. The engineer will drive technical initiatives from concept to mass production, working with design, operations, vendors, and partners to ensure product success, quality, and timely delivery. Responsibilities include leading NPI processes, providing hands-on analysis, researching automation, and managing manufacturing development for hardware products. | — | 5 |
| Senior Support Engineer - San Francisco This role focuses on providing technical support and guidance to enterprise customers using OpenAI's API platform. The Senior Support Engineer will be responsible for resolving complex issues, designing operational processes for monitoring and incident response, and leveraging AI technologies to scale support operations. The role acts as a last line of defense before the core engineering team and requires strong troubleshooting, monitoring, and incident management skills. | — | 5 |
| ChatGPT Research Product Marketing Manager Product Marketing Manager for ChatGPT's research launches, responsible for go-to-market strategy, messaging, and creative examples to explain AI advancements to various audiences. | — | 5 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer, Global Advisory Alliances This role serves as the primary technical point of contact for major consulting partners (MBB) on complex enterprise AI proposals and transformation programs, ensuring OpenAI's platform is architected and deployed to meet board-level AI agendas. It involves translating executive ambition into scalable, production-ready AI programs, guiding architectural decisions, and orchestrating delivery across multiple industries and engagements. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, Higher Education Account Director for Higher Education at OpenAI, focusing on selling ChatGPT Enterprise to educational institutions. This role involves leading the sales cycle, partnering with internal teams, and understanding customer needs to drive AI adoption. | — | 5 |
| Global Detection and Response Lead Lead and scale OpenAI’s cybersecurity detection and response operations, setting strategy and driving execution for security monitoring, incident response, recovery, and post-incident improvements across global infrastructure. This role involves building and mentoring teams, partnering with various engineering and product teams, and evaluating/responding to emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab environment, including detection and response strategies for agents. The role also emphasizes leveraging AI models to solve security problems. | — | 5 |
| Frontend Software Engineer, Codex App Frontend Software Engineer to build and maintain the Codex desktop app and IDE extension, focusing on the interface for interacting with AI agents and making AI feel like a software engineering teammate within real workflows. | — | 5 |