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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.
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 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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| Policy Communications Manager This role is for a Policy Communications Manager at OpenAI, focusing on communicating progress on their mission to develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. The role specifically supports policy communications related to national security, government partnerships, cybersecurity, science, and other AI policy areas. It involves developing communication plans, managing media relations, and partnering cross-functionally to educate the public and policymakers about OpenAI's technology, values, and principles. | — | 5 |
| CPU Storage Tech Lead This role focuses on the physical infrastructure for large-scale AI systems, specifically the CPU and storage architecture strategy for compute clusters. It involves evaluating hardware, defining storage systems, and optimizing server platforms for AI training and inference, working closely with hardware vendors and cross-functional teams. | — | 5 |
| Token-as-a-Service Technical Program Manager This role is for a Technical Program Manager focused on delivering external compute capacity for AI model training and inference. The TPM will lead programs to convert third-party infrastructure into usable tokens, managing readiness across compute, storage, networking, and security. They will build integrated plans, drive launch execution, identify bottlenecks, and establish reporting mechanisms. The role requires strong technical fluency, program management skills, and the ability to drive cross-functional execution with internal teams and external partners in a fast-scaling environment. |
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| Director, Compute & Infrastructure FP&A This role is for a Director of FP&A focused on Compute & Infrastructure at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is financial planning, forecasting, and strategic guidance for the company's largest cost center, which involves significant AI/ML infrastructure. While the role supports AI development by managing its costs, it is not directly involved in building or researching AI models. | — | 5 |
| Strategy & Operations Lead This role is for a Strategy & Operations Lead within OpenAI's Global GTM Data Science and AI Solutions team. The primary focus is on scaling the impact of AI solutions for go-to-market strategies, partnering with sales, RevOps, and data science teams to identify opportunities, drive initiatives, and operationalize AI-powered tools. The role involves strategic analytics, market intelligence, and execution, translating technical AI capabilities into practical business outcomes and enablement materials for commercial teams. While the role works closely with AI solutions and uses AI tools, it does not involve building or shipping AI models or agents directly, but rather focuses on the operationalization and adoption of AI in a commercial context. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Finance, Compute OpenAI is seeking a Strategic Finance Compute Lead to manage financial strategy and execution for their compute and infrastructure roadmap. This role involves developing financial models, analyzing spend, planning for future compute needs, and partnering with engineering teams to optimize capacity investments and drive strategic decisions. The ideal candidate has experience in strategic finance, financial modeling, and a strong understanding of cloud technology and compute infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Silicon Implementation Technologist Seeking a senior Silicon Implementation Engineer to drive the construction and optimization of next-generation AI chips. This role involves hands-on work across architecture, circuits, memory, RTL, physical implementation, and integration, with a focus on PPA optimization and leveraging AI tools for engineering productivity. The goal is to translate ambitious product goals into manufacturable silicon for OpenAI's supercomputing infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure Software Engineer role focused on building and operating infrastructure platforms for ChatGPT, enabling fast iteration, performance, and reliability. The role involves designing shared systems, data paths, rollout mechanisms, and reliability guardrails, with a focus on platform building rather than support. Key areas include platform foundations, scalability, reliability guardrails, developer productivity, observability, safe change management, and interface design. | — | 5 |
| Workload Porting & Performance Engineer This role focuses on evaluating new hardware platforms by porting and analyzing performance of benchmarks and real-world workloads, identifying system bottlenecks, and adapting workloads to utilize hardware capabilities. It involves debugging across hardware and software boundaries, with a preference for experience in AI/ML workloads. | — | 5 |
| Hardware Architecture Expert - 3P This role focuses on hardware architecture for AI infrastructure, specifically engaging with silicon vendors to optimize GPU and accelerator performance for AI workloads. It involves evaluating architectural tradeoffs, benchmarking, and validating next-generation hardware. | — | 5 |
| 3P Architect This role focuses on defining and driving rack- and cluster-level reference designs for AI infrastructure in collaboration with external partners. It involves translating workload requirements into concrete architectures, aligning partners on design attributes, and ensuring vendor roadmaps meet infrastructure needs. The role requires strong system intuition, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to operate across internal teams and external ecosystems. | — | 5 |
| Performance Modeling Engineer ~2 This role focuses on developing and applying performance modeling frameworks to understand system behavior, quantify tradeoffs, and support next-generation infrastructure design for AI workloads. The engineer will analyze system behavior, run simulations, and evaluate tradeoffs across compute, memory, networking, and storage, contributing to building modeling frameworks and gaining expertise in system architecture and AI infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Performance Modeling Engineer Develop and apply performance modeling tools to evaluate AI system performance and inform architectural decisions for AI infrastructure. This role involves analyzing system behavior, running simulations, and quantifying tradeoffs across compute, memory, networking, and storage. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration | Consumer Devices Software Engineer focused on building and improving CI/CD systems, developer workflows, and internal platform capabilities to enhance engineering velocity, reduce toil, and increase software quality for consumer devices and cloud services. The role involves designing and operating robust CI/CD pipelines, making pragmatic architectural decisions, and utilizing AI-native tooling to improve engineering workflows and output quality. Experience with secure software delivery practices and adapting technical decisions to organizational maturity is required. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, Startups Account Director for OpenAI's Startups Go To Market team, focusing on building relationships with top startup customers, supporting their use of OpenAI's APIs, and driving consumption revenue. This role requires technical understanding, strategic thinking, and collaboration across internal teams to accelerate startup growth and product development. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, API Infrastructure Product Manager for OpenAI's API infrastructure, focusing on data processing, data privacy, billing, and access controls. The role involves defining strategy and executing projects to ensure secure, private, and enterprise-grade usage of OpenAI products, partnering with engineering, security, legal, compliance, and finance. | — | 5 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, OpenAI Edu Full Stack Software Engineer for OpenAI's Education team, focusing on building and shipping AI-powered educational products from scratch. The role involves end-to-end development, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and shaping the engineering foundation for a new product area. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager, Robotics Data Acquisition This role is for a Technical Program Manager focused on scaling the systems for robotic data acquisition (DAQ) for model training and evaluation. It involves integrating hardware, software, and operations to ensure high-quality data production for robotics development. | DataEval Gate | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Security Observability Software Engineer focused on building secure, scalable systems for security observability infrastructure, enhancing security and detection capabilities. This role involves designing and developing software systems, building data pipelines for security data, and collaborating with security teams to reduce risk. It also includes contributing to data engineering for investigations and compliance. | — | 5 |
| Product Design Manager Product Design Manager at OpenAI to lead products that are easy to use, beautiful, and push the boundaries of what's possible. This role will shape product direction and design culture, collaborating with product designers and cross-functional partners to craft Foundational experiences for enterprise and consumer users. The manager will lead design for Payments, Identity & Access, and developer/research tools, setting a high bar for design quality and fostering a strong culture of craft, ownership, and performance. | — | 5 |
| Workday Engineer Workday Engineer to design, build, and operate systems powering HR workflows at OpenAI. This role requires strong Workday expertise combined with engineering fluency to build integrations, improve system architecture, automate workflows, and connect Workday to internal tools, external platforms, and AI-driven systems. The engineer will use modern developer workflows, including Git and CLI-driven tooling, and partner with cross-functional teams. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, Large Enterprise (FSI) This role is for an Account Director focused on selling OpenAI's AI products to large enterprise clients in the Financial Services sector in Singapore. The role involves managing key accounts, driving sales cycles, achieving revenue targets, and partnering with technical teams to build customer solutions. It requires deep understanding of the Financial Services industry and AI transformation priorities, with a strong emphasis on sales experience and strategic account management. | — | 5 |
| Proposal Manager OpenAI for Government team is seeking a Proposal Manager to craft persuasive and compliant written materials for government customers, leveraging AI tools to assist in proposal development. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, driving capture strategy, and ensuring proposal compliance with government acquisition regulations. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Risk Analyst, Behavioral & Psychological Risk This role focuses on analyzing user behavior and psychological risks in interaction with AI systems, translating these insights into risk assessments, mitigation strategies, and product guidance. It bridges clinical/behavioral expertise with intelligence analysis to identify and mitigate abuse and strategic risks, contributing to OpenAI's goal of developing AI that benefits humanity. The role involves developing behavioral risk frameworks, identifying early indicators of issues, assessing mitigation effectiveness, and contributing to incident analysis, all while working closely with various internal teams. | — | 5 |
| Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Ecosystem (Apps Platform & SDK) Full Stack Engineer to build and scale the platform for ChatGPT Apps, including SDKs, APIs, and developer workflows, enabling a global community of developers to create applications on top of ChatGPT. | Ship | 5 |
| Manager, US Tax Operations This role is for a Tax Manager at OpenAI, focusing on evolving the tax function into a data-driven, AI-first operating model. Responsibilities include managing tax compliance and provision, working with database-driven workflows, reviewing and improving automated tax outputs, building data models and AI-assisted processes, and using AI tools to enhance workflows. The role emphasizes process improvement and system-based solutions over traditional spreadsheet methods. | — | 5 |
| Head of Partner Enablement, AWS Cloud OpenAI is seeking a Head of Partner Enablement to build and lead programs that empower their partner ecosystem, specifically focusing on the AWS Cloud partnership. This role involves developing strategies, programs, and content to equip partners with the knowledge and tools to successfully deliver OpenAI's AI solutions, manage a team, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to drive adoption and customer outcomes. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Delivery Lead This role is for a Strategic Delivery Lead within OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. The primary focus is on orchestrating complex, multi-workstream customer programs from end-to-end, translating executive-level business outcomes into delivery roadmaps, managing execution across various teams (FDEs, Researchers, Product, Partnerships, customer teams), and ensuring production adoption and value realization. The role requires deep transformation program leadership, executive presence, and technical fluency to guide technical judgment and communicate effectively between business and technical stakeholders. Success is measured by impact, time-to-first value, production adoption, and executive-level outcomes. | Ship | 5 |
| Product Operations Manager This role is for a Product Operations Manager within OpenAI's Applied AI organization. The primary focus is on providing operational expertise to product teams, streamlining org operations, and automating information channels to facilitate collaboration. Responsibilities include managing alpha/beta/GA programs, owning the launch calendar, synthesizing user feedback, coordinating high-impact product moments, and building internal tools/automations. The role requires experience in Product Operations at scaling tech companies and familiarity with AI tools and concepts. | — | 5 |
| Head of People Science and Operations This role leads the People Science and Operations function, focusing on data science, analytics, process design, and service delivery to improve employee experience and organizational effectiveness. It involves partnering with various teams to apply OpenAI's technology internally for automation and system improvements, establishing operational models, overseeing people analytics and experimentation, and ensuring data reliability and governance. The role also emphasizes building high-performing teams and defining success metrics for operational quality and business impact. | — | 5 |
| Product Designer Product Designer role at OpenAI focused on creating AI-native products for scientists and researchers. The role involves contributing to design and product direction, shipping high-quality products, partnering with cross-functional teams, and conducting user research. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in shipping large-scale software products and a strong portfolio in UX/UI design. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse Software Engineer role focused on building and operating backend and data systems for real-time fraud and abuse detection and response at OpenAI. The role involves designing systems to combat fraudulent actors, utilizing AI models like GPT-5, and collaborating with various teams like finance, security, and product. Experience in fraud analysis and backend/data systems is required, with ML experience being a plus. | Agent | 5 |
| Customer Education, Learning Experience & Curriculum Lead This role focuses on building AI-native education programs and curriculum for enterprise customers, leveraging AI tools to accelerate content creation and maintenance. The goal is to empower the workforce with AI skills and drive adoption of AI tools. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Host Assurance Security Engineer focused on building and operating the Host Assurance platform for bare-metal infrastructure. This role establishes trust in hardware platforms before they run workloads, involving machine identity, attestation, and hardware/firmware validation, ensuring secure and scalable compute foundations. | — | 5 |
| Product Enablement Manager This role focuses on bridging the gap between OpenAI's AI products and the Go-To-Market (GTM) teams. The Product Enablement Manager will build systems and workflows to make complex AI products understandable, sellable, and scalable for sales, solutions, and support. They will translate technical capabilities into GTM narratives, establish feedback loops from the field to product, and measure enablement effectiveness. While the role leverages AI tools and works with AI products, its core craft is product enablement and GTM strategy, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Operations Manager, Data Acquisition This role is an Operations Manager for the Robotics team, focused on scaling the system for robotics data collection. It involves owning the end-to-end data acquisition operating system, driving cross-functional execution, managing workforce and vendor performance, coordinating fleet/software/infrastructure, and scaling site operations. The role requires strong leadership and coordination across research, engineering, and operations teams in a dynamic environment. | — | 5 |
| Product Designer, People Innovation Labs Product Designer for internal People-focused AI products at OpenAI, focusing on recruiting and talent management. This role involves designing and shipping software products, partnering with engineering and AI research, and contributing to the design system and culture. The ideal candidate has experience shipping software, strong UX/UI skills, and an interest in AI-first product design. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Manager - Core Ecosystem, EDU This role focuses on post-sales enablement and adoption services for educational institutions using OpenAI products like ChatGPT Enterprise and Agents. The manager will design and deliver workshops, training, and adoption interventions to help customers understand and apply AI capabilities effectively in real-world workflows, driving sustained usage and measurable impact. The role requires strong product fluency, instructional design, and customer advisory skills. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Direct Tax AI Systems and Operations This role focuses on improving direct tax workflows by leveraging AI tools, light scripting, and automation. The primary responsibility is to enhance operational efficiency and data flow within tax processes, rather than directly building AI models. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Engineer - Tokyo This role focuses on ensuring developers and enterprises are successful in building scalable production applications using the OpenAI API platform. The AI Deployment Engineer will partner with strategic customers to guide them through application ideation, development, delivery, and scaling, accelerating their time to value and maximizing the benefits of OpenAI's models. The role involves prototyping solutions, managing customer relationships, contributing to open-source resources, and synthesizing feedback for Product and Research teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security This role focuses on securing the infrastructure that supports AI models and research, including GPU clusters, cloud environments, and data storage. It involves designing and building security controls, leading cross-functional programs, and performing threat modeling. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Manager - Pilots - San Francisco Customer-facing role responsible for leading enterprise AI pilots, from scoping to executive readout, to help customers evaluate OpenAI's products, identify use cases, and generate signals tied to business value. Focuses on driving activation, sustained usage, and measurable impact. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, B2B Engineering Principal Software Engineer to design and scale backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure for OpenAI's developer and enterprise-facing AI products. Focus on distributed systems, data pipelines, security, compliance, and reliability for global scale. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Manager - Pilots - NYC Customer-facing role responsible for leading enterprise AI pilots, from scoping to executive readout, to help customers evaluate OpenAI's products, identify use cases, and generate signals tied to business value. Drives activation, sustained usage, and measurable impact across products like ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Digital Natives Pre-sales Solutions Engineer for Digital Natives customers, focusing on demonstrating business value from ChatGPT and OpenAI API through technical expertise, architectural guidance, and use case scoping. This role involves understanding customer needs, recommending solutions, and fostering customer advocacy. | Ship | 5 |
| Marketing Ops, Tech & Tools Lead This role is for a Marketing Operations, Technology & Tools Lead at OpenAI. The primary focus is on owning and evolving the marketing team's tools, technology, data flows, and operating model, with an emphasis on AI-enabled workflows. The role involves designing and overseeing the tech stack, ensuring security and governance, and partnering with IT, Privacy, and Security. While the role leverages AI tools and aims to deploy AI solutions for marketing workflows, the core craft is marketing operations and technology management, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Manager, Solutions Engineering Manager for Solutions Engineering team responsible for ensuring safe and effective deployment of ChatGPT and OpenAI API applications for developers and enterprises. Combines technical leadership, customer engagement, and team development to deliver exceptional pre-sales experiences and drive business impact. | — | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Premium Engineering Manager for the Growth team at OpenAI, focused on expanding the reach and impact of AI products like ChatGPT. Responsibilities include leading a team, driving user growth and subscriptions, improving retention and engagement, running data-driven experiments, and leveraging AI-powered insights for personalized user experiences. Requires 5+ years of engineering management experience and expertise in backend, frontend, or full-stack development, with a track record in growth-oriented features, subscription models, and experimentation. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Localization Software Engineer to build and scale OpenAI's localization, content, and experimentation platform. This includes developing AI-powered translation pipelines with human review, designing systems for localized content delivery, building tools for linguists, and developing developer tooling for localization workflows. The role also involves building internationalization libraries for handling numbers, currencies, dates, and multilingual interfaces. | — | 5 |
| Technical Sourcer, Research OpenAI is seeking a Technical Sourcer for their Research team to identify and engage world-class AI researchers and scientists. The role involves driving top-of-funnel sourcing, building outreach strategies, and cultivating relationships with specialized talent to support research hiring ambitions. The position requires experience sourcing specialized Engineering and/or AI talent, a deep interest in AI research, and the ability to manage multiple complex searches. | — | 5 |