Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 29% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $230k–$555k (avg $372k).
OpenAI currently has 235 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are in the application stage, accounting for 32% of the total, followed closely by the agents stage at 29%. The dominant function for hiring is Engineering, with 168 positions. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, evals, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models. In the last 30 days, OpenAI posted 50 new AI roles, representing a 14% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
OpenAI currently has 254 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Deployment Engineer (4), Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS (4), AI Deployment Engineer - Startups (3), AI Deployment Engineer- Codex (3), AI Deployment Engineer, Startups (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
OpenAI's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (33%), agents (28%), serving infrastructure (10%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
OpenAI is hiring AI talent in: United States (203 roles), United Kingdom (14 roles), Japan (6 roles), Germany (5 roles).
Job postings at OpenAI most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, evals, llm observability, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, OpenAI has posted 56 new AI-related roles.
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| Forward Deployed Engineer - Stockholm This role focuses on deploying OpenAI's frontier AI models into production systems for strategic customers, involving end-to-end ownership from discovery and design to rollout and adoption. The engineer will build full-stack systems, contribute code, and codify working patterns into reusable tools, with success measured by production adoption, workflow impact, and feedback that influences product and model roadmaps. The role requires strong engineering and deployment experience, particularly with LLMs or generative models, and the ability to manage complex projects in ambiguous environments. | ShipAgent | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - Madrid This role focuses on deploying OpenAI's frontier AI models into production systems for strategic customers, leading the entire process from discovery and scoping to system design, build, and rollout. The engineer will work on full-stack systems, embed with customer teams, and contribute to product and model roadmaps through feedback and evaluations. The role requires strong engineering and deployment experience, particularly with LLMs, and the ability to manage complex projects in ambiguous environments. |
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| 9 |
| Software Engineer, Cyber Frontier Software Engineer role focused on building AI systems and products for cyber threat understanding and response, improving safety and reliability of frontier models in security-sensitive settings. Responsibilities include defining and executing technical roadmaps, working with defenders and customers, shaping model training and access patterns, and building research and evaluation systems. | ShipEval Gate | 9 |
| 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 |
| Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Munich Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering team responsible for partnering with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems using frontier models. The role involves leading and growing a team, owning end-to-end delivery outcomes, and ensuring fieldwork informs roadmap priorities and supports safe deployment at scale. Requires strong leadership, technical project management, and experience with production-grade code. | ShipServe | 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 |
| Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API) Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for delivering innovative multimodal API products, including real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image creation. The role involves owning the product roadmap, collaborating with research teams, and guiding technical decisions for scalability and robustness. | ShipPost-train | 9 |
| AI Deployment Engineer | Codex AI Deployment Engineer focused on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by guiding them in integrating Codex into their projects and workflows, designing and validating advanced AI workflows, and building demos and integrations. The role involves technical consulting, customer-facing leadership, and contributing to product strategy. | Ship | 9 |
| 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, ensuring reliable and secure adoption. | Ship | 9 |
| Technical Deployment Lead - Tokyo This role is a founding Technical Deployment Lead at OpenAI, focused on partnering with customers to deliver complex AI systems. The role involves defining delivery processes, translating business needs into technical plans, managing execution across engineering and research teams, and ensuring customer adoption and value realization. It requires deep technical project management, ownership, and the ability to work in ambiguous, high-autonomy environments, with a focus on shipping AI/LLM systems to customers and codifying reusable patterns from field insights. | Ship | 9 |
| Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering Manager for a Forward Deployed Engineering team at OpenAI, responsible for leading a team that turns research breakthroughs into production systems for customers. The role involves owning end-to-end delivery outcomes, informing product and research roadmaps, and ensuring safe deployment at scale. Requires strong leadership, technical delivery experience, and the ability to make sound decisions under pressure. | Ship | 9 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Codex This role focuses on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by acting as a technical partner, guiding engineering teams in integrating Codex into their projects and workflows. The engineer will design, validate, and scale AI workflows, build demos and integrations, lead workshops, and contribute technical content. The role blends technical architecture, product strategy, and customer-facing leadership, aiming to accelerate the deployment of intelligent coding systems. | Ship | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - NYC This role focuses on leading end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models for strategic customers, building full-stack systems, and driving production adoption. It involves technical scoping, system design, build, and rollout, with a strong emphasis on customer value and feedback loops to improve product and model roadmaps. The role requires contributing code, codifying patterns, and sharing field insights. | ShipServe | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF This role focuses on leading end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models for strategic customers, bridging customer needs with core platform development. The FDE will own the entire delivery lifecycle, from discovery and scoping to system design, build, and production rollout, ensuring measurable workflow impact and gathering feedback to influence product and model roadmaps. The role involves building full-stack systems, embedding with customer teams, and contributing code directly when necessary, with a strong emphasis on making trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality. | ShipAgent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Applied AI Engineering Research Engineer role focused on deploying and optimizing advanced ML models into production, transforming research into real-world applications. Involves collaboration, scaling data pipelines, and ensuring model performance and maintenance. | ShipServe | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - UAE This role focuses on leading complex deployments of frontier AI models in production environments, partnering with customers to solve high-leverage problems. The engineer will build full-stack solutions, scope and sequence delivery, and ensure technical success from prototype to stable production, influencing the product roadmap with field feedback. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| TLM, Embedded Experiences Technical Lead Manager to lead a team of engineers building AI-native embedded experiences and operations-forward systems, driving business outcomes, architecture, and technical strategy for complex systems, contributing to implementation, and growing a high-performing team. Partners closely with internal stakeholders to understand operational challenges, identify high-leverage opportunities for automation, and deliver solutions that create measurable impact. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer Solutions Engineer role focused on post-sale customer engagement to ensure they realize business value from OpenAI technologies. This involves designing and deploying GenAI solutions, providing architectural guidance, building prototypes, and advising on scaling solutions in production. The role works closely with customers' technical teams and internal OpenAI teams (Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, Product). | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen Full Stack Engineer for the Image Generation team at OpenAI, focusing on building and shipping end-to-end product experiences for image generation and editing within ChatGPT. This role involves working across the entire stack, from frontend UIs to backend services and orchestration systems, to bring multimodal AI advancements to millions of users. | Ship | 8 |
| Backend Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen Backend Engineer for OpenAI's ChatGPT Image Generation team, focusing on building and operating scalable backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure for image creation and editing using multimodal AI models. The role involves optimizing performance, reliability, and cost, partnering with research and product teams, and driving technical architecture decisions for large-scale distributed systems. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors This role focuses on deploying AI systems to semiconductor customers, owning the end-to-end delivery process from scoping to adoption. The Technical Deployment Lead will translate customer needs into technical plans, manage execution across teams, and ensure deployments deliver measurable value and become critical to customer workflows. The role requires deep expertise in semiconductor workflows and experience shipping AI/LLM systems. | Ship | 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead - Sydney Founding role in Sydney for a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) on the Forward Deployed Engineering team. The TDL will define how OpenAI delivers complex AI systems to customers, owning their build, shipment, and adoption. This involves translating business outcomes into technical plans, managing day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partnering with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. The role requires deep technical project management expertise, ownership of outcomes, and the ability to immerse in customer workflows to solve complex engineering problems at pace. Success is measured by customer impact, adoption, delivery reliability, and operating leverage. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Digital Natives Manage a team of AI Deployment Engineers focused on ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for technology and software companies, driving them to production and increasing API adoption. | Ship | 8 |
| Robotics Software Engineer Robotics Software Engineer to expand data collection and evaluation program, integrating hardware and software for robotic systems. Involves designing, implementing, and optimizing software, developing control interfaces, and creating automation tools for policy evaluation. | Ship | 8 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the deployment and scaling of OpenAI's Generative AI applications through a strategic partnership with AWS. The engineer will act as a senior technical advisor to AWS field leadership, guiding customers from ideation to production, and enabling AWS partners to independently drive deployments. Responsibilities include shaping strategy, designing end-to-end AI architectures, building prototypes, establishing best practices, and enabling the AWS ecosystem through workshops and reusable assets. The role requires strong technical leadership, strategic influence, and the ability to build repeatable systems for scaled adoption. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| 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 internal teams to ensure successful production adoption and establish best practices. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Startups Lead and scale the Startups AI Deployment Engineering team to help high-growth startups move from experimentation to production with OpenAI's technologies. This role involves team leadership, technical depth, customer prioritization, and cross-functional influence, focusing on defining how OpenAI supports startup customers at scale. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | Singapore AI Deployment Engineer focused on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by acting as a technical partner, guiding integration, designing workflows, and building demos and automations. The role involves customer-facing leadership, technical architecture, and product strategy, with a focus on accelerating software development lifecycle through AI. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | Sydney This role focuses on helping enterprise customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by acting as a technical partner. The engineer will design, validate, and scale AI workflows, build demos and integrations, and provide technical enablement. The role involves deep customer engagement, influencing product direction, and contributing to technical content. | Ship | 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Life Sciences This role focuses on deploying complex AI systems, specifically for the Life Sciences vertical (pharmaceuticals, CROs), to customers. The Technical Deployment Lead will own the end-to-end delivery process, from defining technical plans and managing execution with internal teams (FDEs, Researchers) and customer teams, to ensuring adoption and measuring impact. The role requires translating business outcomes into technical plans, managing dependencies, and driving prototypes through MVP and scale, with a strong emphasis on customer value and adoption. | Ship | 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead - Singapore OpenAI is seeking a founding Technical Deployment Lead in Singapore to define and own the delivery of complex AI systems to customers. This role involves translating business outcomes into technical plans, managing day-to-day execution across engineering and customer teams, and ensuring successful adoption and measurable value delivery. The TDL will partner with Product and Research to guide the roadmap based on field insights and codify reusable patterns and evaluations. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | Korea AI Deployment Engineer focused on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by designing, validating, and scaling advanced AI workflows. This role involves acting as a technical subject matter expert, building demos and integrations, leading workshops, and gathering customer feedback to influence product direction. It blends technical architecture, product strategy, and customer-facing leadership. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Codex AI Deployment Engineer for OpenAI's Codex, focusing on customer adoption of coding tools, designing and implementing AI-enhanced development workflows, building demos and integrations, and providing technical enablement and content. | Ship | 8 |
| 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 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - Singapore This role focuses on leading end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models in production for strategic customers, building full-stack systems, and driving adoption. It involves technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, with a strong emphasis on customer collaboration and measurable impact. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Digital Natives Manage a team of AI Deployment Engineers focused on the technical success of strategic technology and software customers in the Digital Native segment, ensuring seamless platform integration and driving Generative AI use cases to production. | Ship | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - NYC Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for Life Sciences at OpenAI, focusing on end-to-end deployment of AI models in regulated environments. This role involves partnering with customers to translate workflow needs into production systems, defining launch criteria, and using evaluation results to improve models and product roadmaps. Requires strong software/ML/deployment engineering experience and customer-facing ownership in biotech/pharma. | ShipEval Gate | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - SF This role focuses on leading end-to-end deployments of AI models within life sciences organizations, translating customer needs into production systems, defining launch criteria for regulated environments, and designing evaluations to measure model and system quality. The role involves working closely with customers and internal teams to improve both customer systems and the product/model roadmaps. | ShipEval Gate | 8 |
| Lead, Builder AI Deployment Manager Lead a team responsible for enabling enterprise customers to successfully deploy and adopt OpenAI products, focusing on technical leadership, customer enablement, and people management. The role involves shaping scalable enablement programs for operationalizing AI technologies and partnering with Sales, Technical Success, and Product teams. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYC OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team is seeking a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) to own the delivery of complex AI systems to customers. This role involves defining delivery plans, managing day-to-day execution, embedding with customers to ensure adoption, and translating field insights back to Product and Research. Success is measured by customer impact, adoption, and delivery reliability. The role requires strong technical project management, customer-facing experience, and a track record of shipping AI/LLM systems. | Ship | 8 |
| Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences Manager for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) in Life Sciences at OpenAI. Leads a team delivering production AI systems for drug discovery and development in regulated environments. Acts as a player-coach, responsible for delivery outcomes, team growth, technical direction, and ensuring high-quality, production-grade systems. Success is measured by team health, production adoption, workflow impact, eval-driven feedback, and deployment repeatability. Requires significant engineering and management experience, ideally in life sciences R&D or regulated scientific data. | ShipEval Gate | 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - SF OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team seeks a Technical Deployment Lead to manage the delivery of complex AI systems to customers. This role involves defining delivery plans, overseeing execution, embedding with customer teams, and ensuring adoption. Success is measured by customer impact, delivery reliability, and the ability to extract reusable patterns. The role requires strong technical project management, customer-facing experience, and a track record of shipping AI/LLM systems. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer | Codex This role focuses on helping enterprise customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by acting as a technical partner. The engineer will design, validate, and scale AI workflows, build demos and integrations, and provide technical enablement and content. The role involves close collaboration with sales, product, and applied engineering teams to gather customer feedback and influence product direction. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Codex AI Deployment Engineer focused on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by guiding them in integrating Codex into their projects and workflows, designing and validating advanced AI workflows, and building demos and integrations. This role involves technical architecture, product strategy, and customer-facing leadership, working closely with various internal teams and customers to accelerate the deployment of intelligent coding systems. | Ship | 8 |
| Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering team at OpenAI, responsible for leading engineers in delivering production systems with frontier AI models to customers. The role involves owning end-to-end delivery outcomes, informing product and research roadmaps, and ensuring safe deployment at scale. Requires strong leadership, technical project management, and experience with customer-facing engineering. | Ship | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Codex Ecosystem & Enterprise Software Engineer focused on building the ecosystem, enterprise capabilities, and platform primitives for Codex, an AI software engineer. This role involves turning Codex into a production-grade teammate for organizations, enabling its deployment, operation, and trust in demanding real-world environments. Responsibilities include developing plugins, skills, discovery surfaces, RBAC, admin/audit features, usage controls, and analytics, as well as designing secure, observable full-stack systems integrated with enterprise identity and governance solutions. The role requires leading customer deployments and iterating based on live usage signals. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - Tokyo OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineer role focuses on partnering with strategic customers to deploy frontier AI models into production systems. This role involves end-to-end ownership of discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and rollout, with a strong emphasis on driving customer adoption and using evaluation feedback to influence product and model roadmaps. The position requires deep technical expertise in building full-stack systems, understanding LLM behavior, and contributing code, while also acting as a liaison between customer teams and OpenAI's internal Research and Product groups. Fluency in both Japanese and English is a mandatory requirement. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov This role focuses on leading complex deployments of OpenAI's frontier AI models for government and public sector customers. The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) will embed with clients to understand their problems, structure and build full-stack solutions, and ensure successful, compliant, and reliable deployments of AI tools like ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Gov. The role involves technical thought partnership, driving adoption, maximizing mission impact, and contributing to product roadmap through field feedback. It requires strong engineering skills, experience with LLM deployments, and the ability to manage customer relationships and technical delivery in high-stakes environments. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Lead Safety Engineer, Robotics Lead Safety Engineer for OpenAI's Robotics team, focusing on defining and leading the product safety strategy for robotic systems. This role involves integrating safety across the entire development lifecycle, from early development through deployment, by working with leadership, engineering, research, legal, and policy teams. Responsibilities include shaping safety thinking, influencing product architecture, ensuring compliance with current and emerging regulatory expectations, and establishing long-term safety strategy. The role requires expertise in product safety, regulatory strategy, systems engineering, and risk management, with a focus on translating safety requirements into product architecture and engineering requirements, developing hazard analyses, risk assessments, and safety cases. | Ship | 7 |