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 |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Manager ChatGPT Infra Engineering Manager to found and lead the ChatGPT Infrastructure team in London. This role involves building and scaling core runtime primitives and infrastructure for new ChatGPT experiences, requiring high ownership, technical leadership, and startup-style problem solving. The manager will establish engineering culture, hire and develop the team, and own system reliability. | Serve | 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 Gate |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, Platform Systems Software Engineer on the Platform Systems team at OpenAI, responsible for designing and building distributed systems for failure detection, tracing, and observability to support large-scale AI model training. The role focuses on improving the reliability, performance, and visibility of OpenAI's training infrastructure. | Data | 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 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - London This role focuses on leading end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models for strategic customers, involving discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout. The engineer will build full-stack systems, embed with customer teams, and contribute code when necessary, with success measured by production adoption, workflow impact, and feedback that influences product and model roadmaps. The role requires experience with LLMs or generative models and delivering complex systems in ambiguous environments. | Agent | 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Startups AI Deployment Engineer role focused on guiding strategic startup customers in building and scaling novel applications on OpenAI's API. The role involves technical thought partnership, prototyping, providing business impact guidance, and synthesizing feedback for internal teams. It requires strong software engineering and AI/LLM best practices knowledge, with an emphasis on end-to-end problem ownership and collaboration within the startup ecosystem. | Agent | 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 |
| 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Startups Manager for AI Deployment Engineering team focused on supporting fast-moving, high-growth startup customers to move from experimentation to production with OpenAI's technologies. This role involves team leadership, technical guidance, customer strategy, and cross-functional influence to help startups realize impact from frontier AI. | Ship | 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 |
| Manager, Partner AI Deployment Engineering - AWS Manager for AI Deployment Engineering focused on AWS partnerships, responsible for leading a team that enables partners to build, deploy, and operationalize AI applications on OpenAI's platform. The role involves guiding customers through the full AI implementation lifecycle, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and driving production deployments and API adoption. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Technical Lead Manager, Data Engineering, Trust & Safety Technical Lead Manager for Trust & Safety Data Engineering team at OpenAI. This role involves leading a team, setting strategy, shaping data architecture, and driving execution on high-impact data systems for fraud and abuse detection, safety measurement, and ML feature generation. The focus is on building privacy-safe datasets and pipelines to support trust and safety initiatives. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Analytics & Automation Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations Lead a senior technical operations team responsible for building analytics, automation, and quality systems to scale User Safety & Risk Operations. This role involves translating operational problems into practical solutions, guiding ICs, prioritizing needs, and building infrastructure. Key responsibilities include workflow automation, operational health analytics, quality and evaluation systems, emerging-risk signal infrastructure, dashboards, reporting, and data feedback loops. The role requires identifying opportunities for AI/LLM integration, designing appropriate controls, and establishing measurement frameworks for operational systems. Collaboration with various teams (Product, Engineering, Policy, etc.) is essential. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Monetization ML Infrastructure Software Engineer to build ML infrastructure for OpenAI's monetization and ads systems. This role involves designing and developing the platform layer for ML models across the full lifecycle, including data pipelines, training systems, model serving, experimentation, and monitoring, with a focus on high-throughput, low-latency advertising workloads. | ServeData | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Large Enterprise AI Deployment Engineer role focused on post-sale customer engagement to ensure safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, helping customers build and execute AI adoption strategies, identify and prioritize GenAI use cases, and guide projects from prototype to production. Responsibilities include serving as a technical subject matter expert, engaging with senior stakeholders, providing architectural guidance, building prototypes, and contributing to knowledge sharing. | Ship | 7 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises, primarily through strategic partnerships with AWS. The engineer will act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from experimentation to production-scale AI systems, shaping strategy, defining engagement models, and building repeatable systems. The role involves pre- and post-sales activities, leading technical strategy for complex engagements, designing AI architectures leveraging OpenAI and AWS services, and enabling AWS and partners through scalable technical motions. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises, primarily through a strategic partnership with AWS. The engineer will act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from experimentation to production-scale AI systems, shaping strategy, defining engagement models, and building repeatable systems. Responsibilities include leading technical strategy for large engagements, designing end-to-end AI architectures, building prototypes, and enabling AWS and partners through scalable technical motions. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Director, AI Deployment Management Seeking a Director, AI Deployment Management to lead and scale OpenAI's global AI Deployment Management organization, overseeing teams focused on customer adoption, operationalization, and scaling of AI technologies like Codex. This role involves defining strategy, leading global teams, driving customer success, building scalable operational systems, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure responsible AI adoption. | Ship | 7 |
| Full-Stack Software Engineer, Compute Foundations This role focuses on building full-stack web applications and backend services to support the operation and optimization of OpenAI's large-scale supercomputing clusters, which are used for frontier model training. The goal is to improve cluster availability, provide better insights into job failures and performance, and enhance resource management. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Core Science Software Engineer to build AI-native tooling and infrastructure for scientific discovery, focusing on AI-assisted workflows for tasks like paper writing, literature search, data analysis, and simulations. The role involves end-to-end ownership of systems, from architecture to production operations, with a strong emphasis on building 0->1 systems in an ambiguous environment. | Agent | 7 |
| Demo Studio Lead This role focuses on translating advanced AI capabilities into tangible, high-impact customer experiences through demos and applications. It involves designing narrative-driven demos, building agent-driven workflows, and leading live demo execution for major events and launches. The role requires a blend of product thinking, technical fluency, storytelling, systems design, and operational excellence. | Agent | 7 |