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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.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Product Manager, ChatGPT Healthcare Product Manager for ChatGPT Healthcare team, defining and building AI products for clinicians, care teams, and healthcare organizations. Focus on strategy, execution, and shipping useful, safe, and scalable AI solutions in a complex, regulated environment. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform Software Engineer focused on building internal AI applications and platform components for enterprise operations at OpenAI. This role involves developing multi-agent workflows, MCP connectors, data architecture, and evaluation systems for internal business processes. | Agent |
| 7 |
| Software Engineer, Productivity - Inference Runtime Software Engineer focused on developer productivity for OpenAI's Inference Runtime teams. The role involves scaling engineering systems, safeguards, and developer workflows to ensure reliable, efficient, and safe model serving across various workloads. Key responsibilities include improving tooling and infrastructure for deploy gates, release validation, and observability to enhance model launch processes and inference optimizations. | Serve | 7 |
| Design Verification, Forward Deployed Engineering OpenAI is seeking an experienced Design Verification Engineer to join their Forward Deployed Engineering team, focusing on deploying AI systems in semiconductor design. The role involves serving as a technical SME for verification workflows, shaping AI-assisted processes, curating evaluations, and building prototypes. Over time, the role will expand to broader FDE responsibilities including customer partnership, solution building, and deployment ownership. | Agent | 7 |
| Product Manager, Sensitive Deployments Product Manager for Integrity team focusing on sensitive AI deployments, including government, regulated enterprise, privacy-constrained environments, and agentic workflows. The role involves defining product strategy, measuring risk, building agentic investigation workflows, and creating launch playbooks for high-risk domains. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Workflow & Operations, Revenue Strategy & Operations This role focuses on designing and building AI-native workflows, automations, and internal tools to accelerate OpenAI's Go-To-Market (GTM) organization. The engineer will work at the intersection of Revenue Operations, AI product development, systems design, and workflow engineering, using OpenAI's products and APIs to solve operational problems in areas like forecasting, pipeline management, and customer execution. The goal is to create practical AI systems that improve field productivity and operational scale. | Agent | 7 |
| Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations This role focuses on designing and building systems to identify and enforce abuse on OpenAI's products, leveraging data science, ML, and investigation. It involves developing monitoring for new and existing products, prototyping detection and enforcement systems, and investigating critical escalations. The role requires experience with SQL, Python, data engineering, ML principles, and scaling processes with language models. | Agent | 7 |
| Product Manager, Cyber Safety Product Manager for OpenAI's Safety Systems team, focusing on cybersecurity risk for frontier AI models. The role involves driving initiatives to ensure responsible deployment, developing safety roadmaps, and collaborating with research, engineering, and policy teams. Requires experience in AI safety, trust & safety, or integrity, with a background in cybersecurity and strong product management skills. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering This role focuses on investigating sophisticated threat actors targeting OpenAI's models and infrastructure, building tooling and AI-assisted workflows to enhance threat detection, disruption, and safety improvements. The primary focus is on understanding adversary behavior and developing scalable solutions to combat misuse of AI models. | Agent | 7 |
| Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering - UK This role involves investigating sophisticated threat actors targeting OpenAI's models and systems, building tooling and AI-assisted workflows to scale analysis, and translating findings into security improvements. The focus is on understanding adversary behavior, identifying misuse, and developing proactive defenses. | Agent | 7 |
| Developer Experience Engineer This role focuses on empowering developers to integrate AI into their applications by creating demos, tools, and technical content showcasing OpenAI's models and APIs. It involves engaging with the developer community, representing OpenAI at events, and gathering feedback to improve products. | Ship | 7 |
| Technical Program Manager, Human Data This role focuses on designing and executing data collection campaigns to support AI research and model development, particularly for LLMs. The TPM will collaborate with researchers and engineers to define data needs, build and optimize data platforms, and ensure data quality for training and evaluation purposes. | Data | 7 |
| Enterprise Product Manager - AI Solutions Product Manager for AI Solutions in Enterprise Platforms, focusing on Finance and other core business functions. The role involves identifying, shaping, and scaling AI-enabled products and workflows, including copilots and agentic systems, by partnering with stakeholders, defining roadmaps, driving delivery, and measuring business value. Experience with enterprise applications, AI product delivery, and cross-functional leadership is required. | Agent | 7 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises by serving as a technical advisor to AWS field leadership and partners. The engineer will drive joint customer success, shape strategy, define engagement models, and build repeatable systems to scale adoption of OpenAI-powered solutions. Responsibilities include leading technical strategy for complex engagements, guiding customers from ideation to production, designing end-to-end AI architectures, building prototypes, establishing best practices for scalable GenAI systems, and enabling AWS and partners through workshops and playbooks. The role requires strong technical leadership, systems thinking, and the ability to balance hands-on building with strategic influence. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer AI Success Engineer role at OpenAI, partnering with enterprise customers to drive adoption and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform. Responsibilities include technical relationship management, enablement, use case identification, deployment planning, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires deep technical knowledge of AI products, APIs, and integration patterns, with strong project management and customer advisory skills. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Emerging Risks Analyst This role focuses on identifying and mitigating emerging risks and potential harms associated with frontier AI technologies. The analyst will use strategic foresight, quantitative and qualitative methodologies to scan signals, detect abuse patterns, and translate findings into actionable intelligence and risk mitigation proposals. Key responsibilities include mapping risks, building early warning systems, and contributing to product safety readiness. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling Software Engineer focused on kernel performance and AI tooling, working on AI-assisted workflows, developer tooling, observability, and optimizing production kernels for AI workloads. The role involves improving AI-assisted optimization systems and partnering across research and engineering teams. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| 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 |
| Product Manager, Safety Measurement Product Manager for Safety Measurement at OpenAI, responsible for defining the strategy and roadmap for platforms that measure harm and safeguard efficacy in production. This role involves partnering with research and engineering teams to integrate AI safety research into measurement products and represent quantitative safety progress to leadership. | Eval Gate | 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 |
| 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, partnering with Sales, Technical Success, and Product teams, and driving customer activation and business value. | Agent | 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 |
| AI Deployment Manager - India This role focuses on enabling organizations to adopt and operationalize OpenAI products, including ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, Agents, and the API. The AI Deployment Manager will design and deliver technical enablement experiences, lead customer training, and partner with internal teams to drive product adoption and measurable business value. The role requires strong technical fluency, instructional design, and customer advisory skills, with an emphasis on translating technical features into tangible business outcomes. | Ship | 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 |
| Scaled AI Success Engineer This role is a post-sales AI Success Engineer responsible for driving technical success, adoption, and value realization for OpenAI's enterprise customers. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, diagnosing issues using logs and telemetry, leading interventions, translating customer goals into adoption plans, conducting technical enablement, identifying repeatable use cases, and coordinating cross-functionally. The goal is to accelerate adoption, increase activation depth, guide strategic use cases to production, and help customers demonstrate tangible business impact. | 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, ChatGPT for Work Data Scientist for ChatGPT for Work, focusing on shaping product strategy through data, defining core KPIs, building funnels, designing experiments, and translating insights into product direction for an AI-native workspace. Requires strong product sense, experimentation skills, and experience with B2B products and AI tools. | 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 |
| Manager, AI Success Engineers - San Francisco Manager for AI Success Engineers focused on driving adoption and value realization of OpenAI's AI products (ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, custom GPTs) for enterprise customers, involving post-sale technical success, onboarding, and strategic partnerships. | Ship | 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 |
| Model Policy Manager, Chemical & Biological Risk This role focuses on developing and implementing policies for AI models concerning chemical and biological risks. It involves creating structured policy frameworks and taxonomies to guide safe model behavior, translating biosecurity expertise into actionable model policies, and identifying emerging risk vectors. The role sits at the intersection of biosecurity expertise, AI safety research, and policy design, aiming to reduce misuse risks while enabling beneficial research. | Post-trainEval Gate | 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 |