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.
Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $230k–$555k (avg $372k).
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| Software Engineer, Monetization Product & Platform Software Engineer to build core monetization and ads systems at OpenAI. This foundational role is responsible for designing and implementing the infrastructure, APIs, and user-facing experiences that will power OpenAI’s next-generation monetization products, including ads. You will work across the full technical stack to architect, build, and ship 0→1 systems that are robust, safe, and scalable. You will collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and Research to define the future of monetized AI experiences and ensure these systems meet OpenAI’s highest standards for safety, privacy, and policy alignment. | — | 5 |
| Camera ISP Software Engineer, Consumer Devices This role focuses on developing and tuning camera Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipelines for consumer devices, ensuring high-quality imaging under real-world constraints. It involves end-to-end ownership from prototype to production, collaborating with hardware and firmware teams, and building robust evaluation workflows. While the devices use AI, the core craft of this role is in traditional ISP software engineering, not direct AI/ML model development. |
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| Applied Data Scientist, Unit Economics Understanding This role focuses on building the strategic unit economics understanding of OpenAI, guiding sustainable growth to make it the most impactful company of our generation and beyond. You will lead the development of foundational causal inference and data science models and frameworks to predict and quantify the drivers of customer lifetime value (LTV), translating deep data insights into strategic decisions and growth levers. The role requires both technical depth and executive-level communication. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Strategic Intelligence & Risk This role focuses on analyzing and mitigating strategic risks within human-AI systems, using econometric and experimental methods to understand risk shifts and inform company-wide risk management. It involves designing and executing experiments, developing causal inference models, and partnering across teams to evaluate interventions. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC Software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI's APIs to solve real customer problems. This role involves embedding with customers, designing and developing full-stack solutions, and collaborating with internal teams. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Monetization Delivery Software Engineer to build core infrastructure for OpenAI's monetization and ads systems, focusing on reliability, performance, privacy, and large-scale operation. This role involves architecting and implementing distributed systems for ads creation, delivery, measurement, and optimization, enabling both internal and external teams to build on safe, scalable, and robust monetization primitives. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Singapore This role focuses on partnering with customers to build and deploy custom software solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs. The engineer will act as a technical expert, designing and implementing scalable solutions, and providing customer feedback to internal teams. It's a customer-facing role that bridges the gap between research and production systems. | — | 5 |
| Growth, Korea This role is focused on driving user and revenue growth for ChatGPT's consumer and business segments in Korea. It involves full-funnel growth initiatives, including performance marketing, AI-powered workflows, in-product optimization, experimentation, and creative ops engineering. The role requires collaboration with engineering, product, DS, and design to execute localized growth motions, scale acquisition, optimize conversion, and drive business adoption. Key responsibilities include designing and optimizing acquisition campaigns, leading growth experiments, partnering with technical teams to build growth tooling, managing performance metrics, developing AI-native workflows, building AI-first creative systems, expanding growth channels, driving influencer partnerships, improving in-product conversion, and refining attribution models. | — | 5 |
| Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Systems Mechanical Engineer with 7+ years of experience in IT hardware design (chip/package to system levels) for AI supercomputers. Responsibilities include leading mechanical design, optimizing thermal solutions, performing analysis and validation, and ensuring reliability and efficiency of mission-critical hardware in data center environments. Collaborates with cross-functional teams (thermal, electrical, software, systems engineering) and suppliers. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Munich Software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. This role involves embedding with strategic customers, designing and developing full-stack solutions, and collaborating with internal teams to provide customer feedback. | Ship | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Dublin Customer-facing software engineer to build custom solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs, acting as a technical expert and trusted advisor to clients, and providing feedback to internal teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Paris Software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail. Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach. Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments. Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Insider Threat Detection & Response Security Engineer focused on insider threat detection and response, innovating on detection infrastructure, developing detection rules, and driving projects related to insider threats within AI infrastructure. The role also involves partnering with cross-functional teams and using AI to enhance security posture. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Fleet Management Software Engineer focused on building and managing large-scale cloud and bare-metal compute fleets, including hardware, configurations, and vendor interactions. The role involves developing tools for cluster management, integrating hardware metrics with scheduling, automating infrastructure processes, and leveraging LLMs for vendor coordination and workflow optimization. This position supports OpenAI's AI research and product development by ensuring the reliability and efficiency of the underlying computing environment. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack, Revenue Platform Software Engineer, Full Stack, Revenue Platform at OpenAI. This role focuses on building and operating the core financial infrastructure for OpenAI's commercial products, including invoicing, billing, payments, and revenue recognition. The engineer will own end-to-end workflows, develop platform abstractions, and create internal tools for finance, sales, and operations teams. A key aspect is building automation and AI-powered capabilities within the platform to improve operational efficiency and decision-making. The role requires strong full-stack experience and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, ensuring reliability, scalability, and correctness of critical financial systems. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer This Solutions Engineer role focuses on partnering with customers to ensure they achieve tangible business value from OpenAI's models (ChatGPT and API). Responsibilities include understanding pre-sales needs, guiding AI strategy, identifying use cases, demonstrating value, recommending architectural patterns, and handling initial security/compliance questions. The role requires strong customer relationship management and collaboration with sales and GRC teams. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF This role focuses on partnering with customers to build and deploy custom software solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs. The Forward Deployed Software Engineer will embed with clients, design and develop full-stack solutions, and act as a technical advisor to drive projects to completion. The role involves collaboration with internal teams (Sales, Research, Applied Product/Engineering) and contributing to internal knowledge bases. | — | 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 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Tokyo Software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail. Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach. | Ship | 5 |
| Support Systems Architect This role focuses on building and iterating on tooling, data flows, and processes to support a customer operations team at scale. It involves designing automated workflows, implementing LLM-powered automation, codifying incident detection and response, standing up data pipelines for insights, and identifying/solving risks during tooling rollouts. The goal is to redefine modern support organization through resilient systems and automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Support Engineer - Tokyo Senior Support Engineer role focused on providing technical guidance and resolving complex issues for enterprise customers using OpenAI's API platform. The role involves designing and running operational processes, leveraging automation and AI to scale support, configuring monitoring and alerting, contributing to reliability reviews, refining incident response, and analyzing operational metrics. Requires strong troubleshooting, SRE/NOC, monitoring, incident response, scripting (Python), cloud infrastructure, and cross-functional collaboration skills. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Strategic Finance This role is for a Data Scientist on the Strategic Finance team, responsible for designing, implementing, and owning critical models, reporting, and analysis to support high-stakes decision-making. The role involves partnering with various teams, scaling causal inference models, architecting customer segmentation frameworks, automating reporting with agentic solutions, and supporting product pricing and business decisions. It requires expertise in predictive modeling, causal inference, and working with large datasets. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Reliability Software Engineer focused on reliability for OpenAI's AI systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and stability of infrastructure. This role involves building tools for load/chaos/synthetic testing, automation, resource lifecycle management, and implementing fault-tolerant designs. The engineer will also define SLOs/SLIs, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with research and product teams to bring AI technology to users safely and reliably. | — | 5 |
| Product Designer, Growth Product Designer focused on growth for ChatGPT, aiming to increase adoption, engagement, retention, and upgrades by designing intuitive and accessible user experiences. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, running experiments, and translating complex AI capabilities into user-friendly interfaces. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security Security Engineer focused on protecting the infrastructure that supports AI models, including GPU clusters, cloud environments, and data storage. The role involves designing and building security controls, collaborating with engineering teams, and addressing high-impact security projects for AI workloads. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security at OpenAI. This role focuses on safeguarding OpenAI's core research and production environments, including GPU supercomputing clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, and critical services. The engineer will design and implement production-grade security services like authentication systems, proxies, and key management platforms, ensuring high reliability and scalability. Responsibilities include partnering with engineers to embed security in compute clusters, developing automation for risk mitigation, and leading initiatives for AI workloads. Requires strong software engineering skills, experience in critical security infrastructure, cloud security expertise, and familiarity with container orchestration and modern authentication standards. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Financial Engineering Data Scientist on the Financial Engineering team at OpenAI, focusing on analytics and experimentation for checkout, payments, subscriptions, and pricing systems to improve revenue and customer experience. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Research Developer Productivity Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining systems for developer productivity, including CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and build systems, to support research and engineering at OpenAI. The role emphasizes improving the development experience for engineers and scientists working with Python, Rust, and C++ in large monorepos. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Research Software Engineer focused on building and scaling the dataset infrastructure for LLM training and inference, including multimodal data, at OpenAI. | Data | 5 |
| Reliability/DFX Engineer OpenAI's Hardware organization is seeking a cross-stack engineer to make ML systems reliable at scale. This role will work closely with chip design, platform design, and hardware health teams to architect, implement, and deploy reliable next-generation AI accelerator systems. Responsibilities include overseeing DFX architecture, building system-level reliability models, collaborating on DFX features, and partnering with hardware health teams for continuous improvement. Requires deep expertise in reliability across the chip/platform stack, ML chip/platform architecture, and ML workload characteristics. | — | 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 |
| Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product Technical Program Manager at OpenAI responsible for driving the execution of large-scale product and platform initiatives across ChatGPT, API, and related surfaces. This role involves translating product vision into actionable plans, shaping interfaces, and ensuring successful delivery across various layers. The TPM will collaborate deeply with product, engineering, and design teams, manage timelines, dependencies, risks, and influence architectural decisions. The role also involves understanding full-stack systems, coordinating stakeholders, and leveraging AI-powered internal tooling for tracking and optimization. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in technical program management, strong technical acumen, product sense, and excellent execution discipline. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales This role focuses on pre-sales technical support for OpenAI's products like ChatGPT and the API, helping customers understand and implement solutions to achieve business value. It involves demonstrating product capabilities, recommending architectures, and building customer relationships. | — | 5 |
| Trust & Safety Operations Analyst This role focuses on Trust & Safety Operations, safeguarding products, users, and the company from abuse, fraud, scams, and regulatory non-compliance. The analyst will handle high-sensitivity workflows, act as an incident manager for complex cases, and build scalable operational systems including tooling, automation, and vendor processes. The role involves detecting, reviewing, and acting on policy violations, harmful content, and emerging abuse patterns, as well as identifying, triaging, and mitigating new safety, policy, or integrity challenges in a rapidly evolving AI landscape. While the company develops AI, this role is operational and focuses on applying existing systems and processes to ensure safety and compliance, rather than directly building or researching AI models. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining the core cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, deployment, networking, cloud abstractions) that supports OpenAI's products like ChatGPT and the API, ensuring reliability and scalability for future growth. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack (People Innovation) Software Engineer, Full Stack role focused on building internal HR, culture, and recruiting products using AI/LLMs. The role involves owning the full product lifecycle, collaborating with stakeholders, and working with the research team to apply their models. While AI/ML is used, direct experience is not required, suggesting it's more about applying existing AI tools to HR domains. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Privacy Software Engineer focused on building secure backend systems for privacy and security functions within OpenAI's API products and consumer applications. Responsibilities include threat modeling, privacy design reviews, collaborating with product and legal teams, and participating in incident response. The role emphasizes experience in production systems, security projects, and regulatory compliance. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Infrastructure Data Scientist on the Infra team responsible for scaling the infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s products and research. This involves defining foundational datasets, developing metrics, building forecasting and optimization models, and establishing dashboards to improve infra usage and efficiency. | Serve | 5 |
| Enterprise Security Engineer This role focuses on implementing and managing the security of internal information systems and infrastructure within OpenAI's IT team. Responsibilities include developing security measures, monitoring systems for threats, enforcing policies, hardening infrastructure (AzureAD, GSuite, Github, SaaS), advising employees on security best practices, devising sharing controls (DLP), employing "secure by default" and "zero trust" models, remediating vulnerabilities, and using AI-driven models for security tasks like detection, response, and data classification. The role also involves contributing to security roadmaps and educating employees. | — | 5 |
| Developer Experience Engineer This role focuses on creating developer experiences, tools, and content to help developers integrate OpenAI's AI models (like Codex, GPT-5.5, GPT-Image-2) into their applications. It involves building demos, writing tutorials, engaging with the developer community, and gathering feedback to improve products. While it uses AI models, the core craft is developer enablement, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 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 |
| Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Software Engineer role focused on improving developer productivity and building foundational systems for engineers at OpenAI, utilizing AI tools to enhance workflows and collaborating with product teams. | — | 5 |
| Product Designer, ChatGPT Product Designer for ChatGPT team at OpenAI, focusing on user experience, UI, and interaction design for AI-first consumer and business products. Collaborates with engineering, product management, and AI research to define product strategy and tactics, and contributes to the design system and culture. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure Software Engineer role focused on building and operating infrastructure systems for a large GPU fleet, supporting AI model training and deployment. Responsibilities include scheduling, cluster management, and deployment systems, with a bonus for understanding AI/ML workloads. | — | 5 |
| Full-Stack SWE, Data Acquisition (Foundations) Full-Stack Engineer role focused on building and optimizing interfaces and tools for data acquisition to support model training operations. Responsibilities include developing full-stack applications, APIs, and dashboards, collaborating with data processing and scaling teams, and deploying infrastructure. Requires experience in full-stack development, frontend/backend technologies, APIs, databases, and cloud platforms. | — | 5 |
| Full Stack Engineer, Fleet Scheduling Full Stack Engineer to build and operate web-based systems for managing AI workloads on supercomputing clusters, focusing on researcher productivity and system transparency. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Product Data Scientist on the Applied Product team at OpenAI, focusing on data-driven product development for consumer and enterprise products. Responsibilities include defining north-star metrics, designing A/B tests, establishing dashboards, and embedding with product teams to improve products and drive growth. Requires experience in quantitative roles, experiment design, and metric definition, with a preference for NLP/LLM/generative AI experience. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Support Engineer - Dublin Senior Support Engineer role focused on providing technical guidance, resolving complex issues, and supporting enterprise customers using OpenAI's API platform. The role involves designing and running operational processes, monitoring, incident response, and leveraging AI/automation to scale support operations. It acts as the last line of defense before core engineering. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being Software Engineer focused on building foundational systems for youth and family-facing AI experiences, ensuring safety, age-appropriateness, and regulatory compliance. This role involves architecting identity primitives, age assurance pipelines, and guardian tools within OpenAI's product surface area. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and operating data infrastructure that supports massive compute fleets and storage systems, designed for high performance and scalability. This role involves designing, building, and operating the next generation of data infrastructure at OpenAI, scaling and hardening big data compute and storage platforms, building and supporting high-throughput streaming systems, building and operating low latency data ingestions, enabling secure and governed data access for ML and analytics, and designing for reliability and performance at extreme scale. | Serve | 5 |