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 |
|---|---|---|
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | India AI Deployment Engineer focused on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by acting as a technical partner. The role involves designing, validating, and scaling AI workflows, building demos and integrations, leading workshops, and gathering customer feedback to influence product direction. It requires deep technical expertise in AI coding tools and the software development lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on customer-facing post-sales engineering and solutions architecture. | Ship | 7 |
| ChatGPT Performance Engineer OpenAI is seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to optimize the performance, reliability, and efficiency of their AI systems, including ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. The role involves deep technical expertise in analyzing and optimizing infrastructure and application layers, developing observability tooling, influencing architecture, and leading investigations into performance issues. This is an individual contributor role focused on high-scale distributed systems. |
| Serve |
| 7 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack, Integrity Foundations Software Engineer focused on building internal tools and systems to detect and prevent abuse, promote user safety, and reduce risk across OpenAI's AI platforms. The role involves designing APIs, constructing investigation tools with access controls and auditability, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to mitigate adversarial attacks. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer AI Deployment Engineer role focused on helping enterprise customers integrate and deploy Generative AI applications using OpenAI's API and models. The role involves strategic guidance, technical leadership, building prototypes, and ensuring successful production deployment. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - NYC AI Success Engineer role at OpenAI, focused on post-sales customer engagement to drive adoption and business value of OpenAI's AI platform. Responsibilities include technical relationship management, identifying use cases, guiding deployments, and acting as a trusted advisor for enterprise clients. Requires deep technical knowledge of OpenAI products, APIs, and integration patterns, along with experience in enterprise security and customer-facing technical roles. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - San Francisco AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform for enterprise clients. This role acts as a trusted advisor, bridging technical capabilities with business goals and influencing product development through customer feedback. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - US Remote AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization for enterprise clients using OpenAI's AI platform. This role requires deep technical knowledge of OpenAI products, APIs, and common integration patterns, as well as experience with enterprise security and compliance frameworks. The engineer will act as a trusted advisor, identify use cases, lead deployments, and translate customer needs into actionable roadmaps, while also providing feedback to Product, Engineering, and Research teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, Jobs Platform This role focuses on building an AI-powered jobs platform, acting as a career agent to match workers with opportunities. The engineer will own product surfaces end-to-end, design core systems for matching and verification, and integrate new model and agent capabilities into production features. The role emphasizes building high-trust, scalable systems and iterating quickly based on user impact, working across the full stack. | AgentShip | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Workload Enablement Software Engineer to enable production workloads and end-to-end testing on new platforms for AI infrastructure. This role involves creating test harnesses, porting inference and training workloads, analyzing performance, and characterizing system behavior. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Hardware / Software CoDesign Engineer - 3P This role focuses on co-designing hardware with vendors to optimize it for AI workloads, specifically for training and inference of large language models. It involves understanding ML techniques, algorithms, and numerical approximations to influence future hardware architectures and improve performance. The engineer will also build system performance models and evaluate potential accelerators. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Education & Learning Full-stack engineer to build and ship AI-powered learning experiences within ChatGPT, focusing on multimodal capabilities and user-facing product features. The role involves end-to-end ownership from concept to production, collaborating with AI research and platform teams to translate AI advancements into consumer products. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - Seoul, South Korea AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform for enterprise clients. This role acts as a trusted advisor, bridging technical and business needs, and influencing product development through customer feedback. | Ship | 7 |
| Data Scientist, Integrity Data Scientist role focused on building and scaling anti-fraud and abuse detection systems for OpenAI's platform, utilizing LLMs and large datasets to combat evolving threats. | Agent | 7 |
| Technical Abuse Investigator This role focuses on detecting, investigating, and disrupting the misuse of OpenAI's AI platform. The investigator will develop and scale investigative processes, build technical solutions like data pipelines and utilities, and collaborate with various teams to improve detection and enforcement strategies. The role requires technical fluency in navigating complex datasets and automating manual processes, with a focus on agentic AI misuse and other relevant domains. | Agent | 7 |
| Manager, AI Deployment Engineering - Health & Life Sciences Manager for AI Deployment Engineering focused on the Health & Life Sciences sector, responsible for leading a team to implement and scale production deployments of generative AI systems for customers in regulated environments. The role involves strategic planning, team management, establishing operational standards, and ensuring secure, compliant AI adoption. | Ship | 7 |
| Research Engineer, 3D & Multi-View Geometry Research Engineer focused on 3D and multi-view geometry for robotics, developing systems for perception, localization, and reconstruction from multi-camera sensor data. Integrates classical geometry with modern ML for real-time and large-scale pipelines. | DataServe | 7 |
| Manager, AI Deployment Engineering - Health & Life Sciences Manager for AI Deployment Engineering focused on the Health & Life Sciences sector, responsible for leading a team to implement and scale generative AI systems for customers in regulated environments. Requires strong technical foundation, people leadership, and understanding of healthcare compliance. | Ship | 7 |
| Data Scientist, Integrity Measurement Data Scientist focused on measuring and responding to adversarial threats and misuse on OpenAI's platforms, developing AI-first methods for prevalence estimation and productionised safety metrics, and optimizing LLM prompts for measurement. This role involves owning measurement and metrics for severe harm verticals, informing improvements to detection and enforcement, and leveraging agentic products for automation. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer This role focuses on leading technical delivery with OpenAI partners across EMEA, helping scale customer deployments built on the OpenAI platform. The engineer will support the design, deployment, and scaling of production-grade AI solutions through partners, ensuring quality, safety, and reliability. Responsibilities include acting as a primary technical delivery partner, translating designs into deployable architectures, providing integration support, and contributing to reusable deployment patterns. | Ship | 7 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)- Platform This role is a founding Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) for the FDE Platform team at OpenAI. The primary focus is on making early design partner deployments successful, from scoping to production adoption and demonstrated value. The role involves driving alignment across OpenAI and customer stakeholders, managing delivery plans, ensuring enterprise constraints (security, auditability, infra) are handled, and converting learnings into actionable improvements. Success is measured by delivered outcomes, adoption in critical workflows, and platform reliability. | Ship | 7 |
| Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYC Platform Engineer within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) to build new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. This role involves partnering with customer-tagged FDEs to provide hands-on leverage in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, and building, turning repeated customer signals into platform bets and raising the engineering bar through tooling and mentorship. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Observability Software Engineer role focused on building the observability product for OpenAI, including scalable infrastructure for logs and metrics, and AI-native tools like agents for issue detection and debugging. The role involves owning core observability infrastructure and contributing to UI experiences, with a focus on making production systems reliable, performant, and observable. It's an engineering role within an AI company, building AI-powered internal tools. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) -SF Platform Engineer within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) at OpenAI. This role focuses on building new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. The engineer will partner with customer-tagged FDEs to provide hands-on leverage in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, hardening, and creating reusable abstractions. The goal is to translate cross-customer patterns into platform bets and raise the engineering bar through tooling and mentorship, ultimately contributing to shipped software, repeatable patterns, and durable products. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI) Software Engineer focused on building and scaling backend infrastructure for AI-powered knowledge and automation systems. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that integrate OpenAI models into high-leverage workflows, supporting internal and external customers. The team iterates fast and engineers for reliable long-term impact, focusing on building simple primitives to apply knowledge to many domains. | Agent | 7 |
| Full-Stack Software Engineer, Incubation Full-Stack Software Engineer for OpenAI's Incubation team, focused on exploring, prototyping, and building new AI-powered product ideas from 0 to 1. This role involves working across the full stack in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, turning early concepts into validated products that can scale. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer, Government AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform for government customers. This role requires deep technical understanding of OpenAI products, customer advisory skills, and program management to guide customers from initial deployment to scaled enterprise adoption. | Agent | 7 |
| Product Engineer, GTM Innovation Product Engineer on the GTM Innovation team at OpenAI, responsible for building and shipping high-impact applications and tools using OpenAI's API platform to accelerate go-to-market efforts. This role involves working across the full product lifecycle, embedding with go-to-market teams to identify user needs, and applying OpenAI's models in novel ways to solve real-world problems. The ideal candidate has experience building user-facing systems, LLM-powered workflows, and a strong sense of ownership. | Ship | 7 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, GTM Innovation Full Stack Software Engineer for the GTM Innovation team, focusing on building and shipping applications that leverage OpenAI's models to improve go-to-market efforts. This role involves working across the full product lifecycle, from prototype to production, and collaborating closely with go-to-market teams to understand user needs and solve real-world problems. | Ship | 7 |
| Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation Backend Software Engineer for the GTM Innovation team, focused on building and shipping AI-powered applications and tools to enhance OpenAI's go-to-market efforts. This role involves working across the full product lifecycle, partnering with go-to-market teams, and applying OpenAI's models to solve real-world problems, ultimately shaping customer experience and defining new enterprise software categories. | Ship | 7 |
| Data Science Manager, Integrity Manager for Integrity Data Science team at OpenAI, focusing on responsible AI deployment. The role involves leading a team to build measurement systems, experimentation practices, and detection/mitigation strategies against misuse, fraud, and adversarial behaviors. Key responsibilities include driving strategy across multiple integrity domains, building analytical rigor, partnering with Product & Engineering, and evolving team structure. The role emphasizes an AI-leveraged operating mode and requires strong leadership, technical grounding in DS techniques, and experience in adversarial problem spaces. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer AI Success Engineer role focused on partnering with enterprise customers to drive adoption and business value from OpenAI's AI platform. This post-sales role involves technical leadership, customer advisory, and influencing product development by translating customer needs and feedback. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations - London Software Engineer role focused on building scaled foundational systems for detecting, tracking, and enforcing harm on OpenAI's platforms, leveraging advanced AI technologies to automate and augment these processes. The role involves collaboration with various experts and staying ahead of adversarial threats. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Productivity - Training Runtime Software Engineer focused on improving the developer experience and productivity within OpenAI's core training and inference frameworks. This role involves optimizing iteration speed, CI, and testing strategies to support researchers working on frontier experiments. | DataServe | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer AI Deployment Engineer role focused on helping enterprise customers integrate and deploy Generative AI solutions using OpenAI's API, acting as a technical advisor and solutions leader to drive business value and production readiness. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Simulation Realism Engineer Seeking a Simulation Realism Engineer to improve the accuracy of simulation environments for robotics research and product development. This role involves defining realism metrics, tuning simulation parameters, integrating third-party engines, and developing tooling and pipelines for large-scale simulation operations. The goal is to close the sim-to-real gap for AI-powered robots. | Agent | 7 |
| Fullstack Engineer, Intelligence Systems Fullstack Engineer focused on developing and maintaining intelligence systems to detect and disrupt AI abuse, ensuring safe and responsible AI use. The role involves prototyping, building scalable systems, analyzing data, and acting as a technical bridge between data scientists and other technical teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Financial Services - NYC Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for financial services at OpenAI, responsible for leading end-to-end deployments of AI models within customer organizations. This role involves technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, with a focus on driving customer adoption and measuring workflow impact. The FDE will partner closely with customer teams, product, research, and GTM teams, and contribute to product and model roadmaps through field feedback. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Media Partnerships AI Deployment Engineer focused on partnering with media organizations to implement Generative AI solutions, driving them from prototype to production, and ensuring business value through technical guidance and architectural design using OpenAI API. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Startups AI Deployment Engineer role focused on helping strategic startup customers build and scale novel applications on OpenAI's API, acting as a technical thought partner and providing guidance to maximize business impact. The role involves prototyping, synthesizing feedback, and contributing to open-source resources. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Codex Ecosystem & Enterprise Software Engineer focused on building the ecosystem, enterprise capabilities, and product experiences for Codex, an AI software engineer. This role involves working across the full stack to enable deployment, operation, and trust of Codex in demanding real-world environments, including integrating with enterprise identity and governance systems, and leading customer deployments. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gov Senior Staff Software Engineer role focused on deploying OpenAI's AI technology to public sector customers, involving end-to-end feature development, infrastructure optimization, and cross-functional collaboration with product, security, and compliance teams. The role requires experience with web technologies, backend languages, and infrastructure primitives, with an interest in AI/ML. | ShipServe | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- ChatGPT Ecosystem This role focuses on enabling strategic customers and partners to effectively deploy and integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT and API applications. The AI Deployment Engineer will act as a technical resource, driving solution design, co-developing innovative experiences, and guiding partners on best practices for leveraging OpenAI's platform. The role involves collaborating with internal teams (Partnerships, Product, Engineering, GTM) and external stakeholders to ensure successful and valuable adoption of OpenAI's products. | Ship | 7 |
| Director of Data Engineering and Agentic AI Automation, Finance Director of Data Engineering and Agentic AI Automation for Finance at OpenAI. This role involves building scalable data infrastructure for financial operations and defining the roadmap for agentic AI automation to enable intelligent workflows and process automation. The role requires leading teams of data engineers, analytics engineers, and AI engineers, and ensuring data systems are AI-ready for predictive analytics and autonomous agent workflows. | AgentData | 7 |
| Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations This role focuses on designing and building systems to proactively identify and enforce abuse on OpenAI's products, including developing abuse monitoring for new and existing products, and prototyping systems for detection, review, and enforcement. It involves investigating critical escalations and working cross-functionally with product, policy, and engineering teams. The role requires technical analysis, data engineering, and machine learning principles, with an emphasis on scaling and automating processes, particularly with language models. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Startups AI Deployment Engineer role focused on helping strategic startup customers build and scale novel applications on OpenAI's API, acting as a technical thought partner and feedback conduit to internal teams. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Public Sector - Federal Civilian This role focuses on deploying Generative AI applications for public sector customers, acting as a technical advisor to help them identify, build, and scale AI use cases using OpenAI's API and products. The engineer will partner with customer technical teams and implementation partners to move from prototype to production, ensuring tangible value and contributing to the growth of the AI Deployment Engineering function. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - Tokyo AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform for enterprise clients. This role requires deep technical knowledge of OpenAI products, APIs, and common integration patterns, along with experience in enterprise security and compliance. The engineer acts as a trusted advisor, mapping workflows, guiding deployments, and translating customer needs into actionable roadmaps, while also providing feedback to Product, Engineering, and Research teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Simulation Environments Engineer The role focuses on building tooling and infrastructure for creating high-coverage, realistic virtual environments for robotics research and evaluation. This involves designing content pipelines, authoring procedural generators, and shipping tools for environment creation, quality control, and integration with simulation farms and ML evaluation pipelines. The role sits at the intersection of game-engine practice, asset engineering, and large-scale simulation infrastructure. | DataEval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations Software Engineer focused on building systems to detect and prevent abuse, financial fraud, botting, and scripting on AI platforms. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to mitigate adversarial attacks and responds to incidents. Requires experience with production backend services and data pipelines, and a strong understanding of AI safety in production. | Agent | 7 |