OpenAI
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- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2015
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- 5,000+
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Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 29% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $230k–$555k (avg $372k).
AI Frontier · AI lab
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Startups AI Deployment Engineer at OpenAI, working with startups to optimize AI systems, identify failure modes, and translate learnings into product improvements and evaluation systems. Role involves prototyping prompts/agents, designing evaluations, and collaborating across research and product teams. |
| 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 |
| People Research Data Scientist, AI Fairness & Bias This role focuses on establishing how OpenAI evaluates AI-assisted People systems and talent processes by designing and conducting rigorous assessments to identify, measure, and mitigate potential bias across models, agents, and automated workflows. It involves defining fairness strategies, conducting algorithmic audits, evaluating human-AI decision systems, developing approaches for generative AI and agents, investigating sources of disparities, and building scalable fairness-evaluation infrastructure. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, Codex Full Stack Software Engineer to invent AI-powered software development workflows, applying AI across the entire SDLC from design to support. The role involves owning complete product experiences, including UIs, orchestration, agent/prompt design, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on shipping features that influence how developers work. | Agent | 8 |
| Agentic Risk Analyst This role focuses on analyzing and mitigating risks associated with agentic AI systems, ensuring safe and responsible deployment across OpenAI's products. The analyst will build a portfolio of agentic risks, assess emerging threats, and collaborate with various teams to implement mitigation strategies. | Agent | 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 |
| AI Tooling & Enablement Manager This role focuses on identifying and building AI-native products and workflows for OpenAI's marketing organization. The manager will work with marketing teams to leverage AI for improved quality, speed, and effectiveness, by designing and deploying workflows that combine agents, tools, and human review. The role involves prototyping, shipping automation, building reusable systems, and providing training and documentation to enable safe and effective AI adoption. | Agent | 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 |
| Software Engineer, Cloud Agents Software Engineer to build and scale a cloud agent platform, focusing on orchestration, sandboxing, secure connectivity, and tool usage for long-running agents. The role involves designing and operating systems for agent orchestration at scale, partnering with product engineers to enable rapid product shipping, and improving reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency. | AgentServe | 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 |
| Staff / Senior Staff Backend Software Engineer, Workspace Agents Backend engineer to build and scale the systems behind Workspace Agents in ChatGPT, focusing on agent orchestration, enterprise context, tool integration, and reliability for organizational use. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture Software Engineer focused on ML Systems & Training Infrastructure for the OpenAI Robotics team, responsible for maintaining and improving the training framework, debugging ML systems, and unblocking researchers and engineers. | Data | 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, Startups AI Deployment Engineer focused on working with strategic startup customers to optimize their AI systems, translate insights into product improvements, and design evaluations. This role involves prototyping prompts, agents, and workflows, and synthesizing feedback for OpenAI's research and product teams. | AgentEval Gate | 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineer - Startups AI Deployment Engineer focused on working with strategic startup customers to optimize their use of OpenAI's technology, identify failure modes, and translate learnings into product improvements and better model behavior. The role involves prototyping prompts/agents, designing evaluations, and building repeatable tools to improve AI systems. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer - Startups AI Deployment Engineer focused on working with strategic startup customers to optimize their AI systems, identify failure modes, and translate learnings into reproducible evaluations and product improvements for OpenAI. This role involves prototyping prompts/agents, designing evaluations, and acting as a technical partner. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| Strategic Partnerships Lead, Education Research Scientist focused on building scientific and evaluation infrastructure to understand how AI systems affect learning, cognition, and capability development over time. The role involves designing rigorous studies, developing scalable evaluation methods, and measuring cognitive outcomes beyond engagement. It sits at the intersection of learning science, cognitive science, experimental design, LLM evaluation, and applied product research, with an initial focus on young users and education settings. This is an applied, empirical role focused on building evidence systems that are scientifically credible, operationally useful, and influential in model and product development. | Eval GatePost-train | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Training, Process Management Engineer OpenAI's Training Runtime team is seeking a Process Management Engineer to build and maintain the distributed OS responsible for launching, coordinating, and supervising large-scale machine learning training workloads. This role involves working with Rust and Python to create high-performance, reliable, and observable systems that enable researchers to scale ideas from experiments to production training runs on massive clusters. | Data | 8 |