Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 29% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $230k–$555k (avg $372k).
OpenAI currently has 235 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are in the application stage, accounting for 32% of the total, followed closely by the agents stage at 29%. The dominant function for hiring is Engineering, with 168 positions. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, evals, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models. In the last 30 days, OpenAI posted 50 new AI roles, representing a 14% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
OpenAI currently has 254 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Deployment Engineer (4), Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS (4), AI Deployment Engineer - Startups (3), AI Deployment Engineer- Codex (3), AI Deployment Engineer, Startups (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
OpenAI's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (33%), agents (28%), serving infrastructure (10%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
OpenAI is hiring AI talent in: United States (203 roles), United Kingdom (14 roles), Japan (6 roles), Germany (5 roles).
Job postings at OpenAI most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, evals, llm observability, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, OpenAI has posted 56 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Software Engineer, Post-Training Research Software Engineer focused on post-training research, building tooling and evaluation systems for researchers to prepare models for deployment in products like ChatGPT and the API. The role involves rapid prototyping, refactoring codebases, and designing experiment systems. |
| Post-train |
| 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 |
| Engineering Manager, Cooperative Systems Engineering Manager to lead a team building AI-powered automation systems for internal operations, focusing on autonomous reasoning and learning from humans. The role involves hands-on architecture, full-stack development, and rapid iteration with internal users and customers. | Agent | 8 |
| SOC Architect Seeking an experienced SoC Architect to define and develop next-generation custom AI silicon for edge deployments, focusing on efficient, high-performance SoCs for ML inference. The role involves cross-functional collaboration with internal teams and external partners to translate product requirements into scalable silicon solutions, driving execution from concept through delivery. | Serve | 8 |
| Performance Modeling Lead Lead a team to build and own a performance modeling framework for AI infrastructure systems, analyzing tradeoffs across compute, memory, networking, and storage to guide architectural decisions and influence vendor roadmaps. Requires deep knowledge of AI/ML workloads (training/inference) and large-scale distributed systems. | Serve | 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 |
| Abuse Investigator (AI Self-Improvement Risk) Investigate AI agentic and autonomous behavior risks, identify emerging patterns, and propose improvements to safeguards. Requires expertise in complex systems, multi-step behaviors, and ambiguous signals. | Agent | 8 |
| IC Agentic Engineering Manager - Stargate This role focuses on applying agent-based systems to infrastructure delivery and operations within OpenAI's Stargate Infrastructure team. The goal is to use AI-driven approaches for deployment orchestration, system bring-up, issue triage, debugging, and capacity management, rather than building general-purpose agent platforms. It's a player-coach role involving direct system design and implementation while leading a small team. | Agent | 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 |
| Engineering Manager, Distillation & Dectection Platform Engineering Manager to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models, focusing on model IP protection, distillation detection, and emerging risks from autonomous agents. The role involves setting technical roadmaps, building scalable production systems, and partnering with Research and Product to translate model capabilities into deployed mitigations. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals, experience in adversarial environments, and leadership skills. | AgentServe | 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 |
| Product Manager, Bio Safety Product Manager focused on biosecurity risk for OpenAI's frontier models. The role involves driving initiatives to ensure safe and impactful deployments, developing safety-focused product roadmaps, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Key responsibilities include creating scalable evaluation and improvement systems, integrating AI safety research, and defining metrics for safety performance. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Data Scientist, Safety Systems The Data Scientist, Safety Systems role focuses on establishing a data-driven approach to understand, evaluate, and monitor the safety of production AI systems. This involves defining and implementing metrics, creating dashboards, and collaborating with researchers and engineers to ensure safe AI deployment. The role emphasizes leadership in quantitative analysis and metric operationalization within a safety-focused team. | Eval GateData | 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 |
| Product Manager, Personalization Product Manager for OpenAI's Memory & Personalization team, focusing on building systems for ChatGPT to learn from user interactions over time, remembering context, preferences, goals, and workflows to deliver tailored experiences. The role involves defining how ChatGPT adapts to individual users, balancing innovation with safeguards for user control, privacy, and transparency. | Agent | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - Semiconductor Forward Deployed Engineer to lead end-to-end deployments of OpenAI's AI models within semiconductor and chip design organizations, focusing on integrating AI into chip design, verification, and tooling workflows to reduce design cycles and improve quality. This role involves designing and shipping production AI systems, leading customer engagements, delivering AI-powered verification workflows, building systems over large codebases, and defining evaluation loops. Success is measured by production adoption, cycle-time reduction, and engineer productivity gains. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Data Scientist, Integrity Measurement This role focuses on developing and implementing AI-first methods for measuring and monitoring complex harms on OpenAI's platforms. The Data Scientist will own measurement and metrics for severe usage harms, build productionised safety metrics, optimize LLM prompts for measurement, and leverage agentic products for automation. The role is crucial for ensuring the integrity and security of OpenAI's scaling technology. | Eval GateData | 8 |
| Data Scientist, B2B Product-focused Data Scientist to shape AI-powered enterprise products like ChatGPT Enterprise and agentic automation systems. Focus on analyzing user interaction, informing product strategy, and building measurement frameworks for AI agents and automation workflows. | Agent | 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 |
| Data Scientist, Preparedness Data Scientist role focused on evaluating, improving, and building mitigation systems to prevent extreme harms from AI. This involves deep error analysis, root cause investigation, building monitoring frameworks, and identifying trends in blocking effectiveness to influence product and policy changes. The role requires strong analytical skills, SQL/Python proficiency, and experience in high-stakes domains like security or trust & safety. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Marketing Innovation Software Engineer role focused on building and owning autonomous, customer-facing agentic systems that drive revenue and pipeline for OpenAI's marketing and sales organizations. The role involves full-stack development, API integration, orchestration, and applying OpenAI models to create AI-native products and workflows. | Agent | 8 |
| Product Engineer, Marketing Innovation Product Engineer to build and own autonomous, customer-facing agentic systems that directly drive revenue and pipeline, interfacing with enterprise customers and revenue-critical workflows. The role involves full-stack development, applying OpenAI models in novel ways, and iterating based on live usage data. | Agent | 8 |
| Technical Program Manager – Adversarial Model Research This role focuses on testing the safety and robustness of AI models through evaluations, red-teaming, and identifying failure modes. It involves leading programs to understand model behaviors, translating risks into research plans, and collaborating with research and engineering teams to integrate findings into model development and deployment cycles. The goal is to strengthen model reliability and public trust. | Eval GatePost-train | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Research - Human Data Software Engineer, Research - Human Data role at OpenAI. Focuses on building and maintaining full-stack systems for feedback collection, data labeling, and evaluation pipelines to train and improve AI models. Partners with researchers to translate alignment research into scalable production infrastructure, including inference and model training stacks. Designs user-facing tools and backend services for high-quality data workflows, driving infrastructure improvements for OpenAI's frontier models. | DataPost-train | 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 |
| Software Engineer, Codex Cloud Software Engineer role focused on building the cloud-based runtime and orchestration layer for the Codex AI agent, enabling it to securely and reliably execute tasks, interact with codebases, and operate at scale for enterprise customers. This involves designing and implementing core platform capabilities, including container orchestration, sandboxed environments, identity and governance systems, and observability, to support agentic experiences. | AgentServe | 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 |
| Software Engineer, Cooperative AI Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered knowledge and automation systems using OpenAI's latest technologies. The role involves end-to-end development, collaboration with various teams, and iterating on applying models to internal use cases, with a focus on customer-facing systems like knowledge systems, automation systems, and automated agent systems. | Agent | 8 |
| Backend Software Engineer (Evals) Backend Software Engineer to design and build an evals infrastructure for measuring the quality of OpenAI's support automation. The role involves building robust systems and backend services, integrating data, and collaborating with data science and research partners. Experience with AI agents, LLM evaluation methods, and distributed systems is required. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Backend Software Engineer, Jobs Platform Backend Software Engineer to build core systems for search, matching, and recommendation for an AI-powered job platform. This role involves productionizing ML models, running experiments on ranking and recommendation strategies, and building scalable systems that support millions of users. Experience with vector databases, search indices, and ML concepts is required. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Solutions Engineer- Startups Solutions Engineer role focused on helping startup customers build and scale Generative AI applications using OpenAI's API. This involves technical guidance, product feedback synthesis, and creating reusable resources for the startup ecosystem. | Agent | 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 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer This role focuses on enabling systems integrators and their enterprise customers to deploy and scale Generative AI applications using OpenAI's models. The Partner AI Deployment Engineer acts as a technical lead and trusted advisor, helping partners identify use cases, build prototypes, provide strategic guidance, and ensure successful production deployments. The role involves close collaboration with internal teams (Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, Product) and external stakeholders (SI partners, customer executives) to drive tangible business value through AI adoption. | Agent | 8 |
| Security Engineer, Agent Security Security Engineer focused on securing agentic AI systems by designing and implementing security controls, policies, and tooling. The role involves threat modeling, collaborating with infrastructure and safety teams, and influencing security strategy for AI agents. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer, AI Safety Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure to ensure the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment. The role involves utilizing AI techniques to monitor and improve model alignment, diagnosing and remediating incidents, and developing tooling to address system failures. Experience with production services, debugging live issues, and understanding AI capabilities vs. risks is desired. | Agent | 8 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, Agent Enablement Full Stack Software Engineer to design and grow an open ecosystem of agent-enabled sites and services. Responsibilities include building user and agent identity protocols, user experiences for controlling and observing agents, and evolving token consumption. The role requires strong full-stack skills, experience shipping customer-facing products, comfort with ambiguity, and collaboration with research, design, and data science teams. | Agent | 7 |
| 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 |
| Engineering Manager, Sensitive Deployments Engineering Manager for OpenAI's Integrity team, focusing on sensitive deployments of AI in high-stakes environments like government and regulated enterprises. The role involves leading a team of engineers to ensure safe and beneficial deployment of AI technologies, translating field learnings into reusable capabilities, and managing end-to-end delivery outcomes. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Computer Use & Frontier Interfaces Software Engineer role focused on discovering and building next-generation AI-native interfaces and interaction paradigms. The role involves designing, prototyping, and building novel interfaces, developing foundational technologies for generative UI, and collaborating with design and product teams to create end-to-end prototypes and production systems that influence future OpenAI products. It requires comfort with ambiguity, strong product instincts, and the ability to move between experimentation and production. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer AI Deployment Engineer role focused on post-sale customer engagement to help them build and deploy Generative AI applications using OpenAI's technologies. This involves acting as a technical advisor, designing solutions, building prototypes, and guiding customers from prototype to production. | Ship | 7 |
| Product Manager, Shopping Product Manager for OpenAI's Shopping team, focusing on building AI-powered shopping experiences within ChatGPT. This role involves defining product vision, exploring AI applications in product discovery and decision-making, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to scale these experiences. The role operates at the intersection of AI, commerce, search, recommendations, and consumer product experiences. | Ship | 7 |
| Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success Lead the development of AI/ML-powered intelligence products for Go-to-Market (GTM) and Technical Success teams at OpenAI. This role focuses on building systems that connect customer health, product usage, and field activity into actionable insights to drive customer adoption, expansion, and retention. The lead will also build and manage a small team, setting technical standards and driving roadmap execution for insight products embedded into GTM workflows. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, API Multicloud Software Engineer role focused on extending OpenAI's API platform into cloud environments (e.g., AWS) by building backend services, APIs, and infrastructure for cloud-hosted AI capabilities, including agentic workloads. This involves adapting first-party deployments, ensuring cloud-native operation, and partnering with cloud providers and internal teams. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Android Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen Experienced Android Software Engineer to build and improve image generation experiences within the ChatGPT Android app, focusing on user-facing features powered by multimodal AI models. | Ship | 7 |
| 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, working with various teams, and staying ahead of adversaries, potentially utilizing future AI models. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack - Cybersecurity Products Software Engineer to build end-to-end workflows and backend services for AI-powered cybersecurity products, focusing on vulnerability discovery, scanning, and remediation. | Agent | 7 |