OpenAI
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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).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Deployment Manager - NYC AI Deployment Manager at OpenAI, focused on post-sales technical enablement and adoption of AI products like ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and Agents. This role involves designing and delivering training, workshops, and adoption programs to help enterprise customers effectively use and integrate OpenAI's AI capabilities, translating technical features into measurable business value. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Deployment Manager - US Remote This role focuses on post-sales technical enablement and adoption of OpenAI's AI products (ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, Agents, API) for enterprise customers. The AI Deployment Manager designs and delivers training, workshops, and adoption programs to drive customer activation, usage, and business value, acting as a bridge between customers and product/engineering teams. | 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 |
| Product Manager, Integrity Product Manager for OpenAI's Integrity team, focusing on scaling product efforts and technical strategy to combat scaled abuse and novel misuse of AI services like ChatGPT, API, and Sora. Requires close collaboration with product, safety, policy, operations, and engineering teams to build tooling and infrastructure for detection and prevention of policy violations. | Agent | 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 |
| Manager, AI Success Engineers - NYC Manager for AI Success Engineers focused on driving adoption and value realization of OpenAI's AI products (specifically ChatGPT Enterprise) for enterprise customers. This role involves leading a technical team, developing strategy, ensuring customer onboarding and activation, and representing customer needs to product teams. | Ship | 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 |
| Data Scientist, Platform and B2B Products Data Scientist on the Platform team at OpenAI, focusing on API and B2B solutions. The role involves defining metrics, measuring impact, and partnering with product and engineering to improve model quality, reliability, latency, and cost, ultimately shaping the adoption of agentic AI. | 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 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 |