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 |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Deployment Lead - Tokyo This role is a founding Technical Deployment Lead at OpenAI, focused on partnering with customers to deliver complex AI systems. The role involves defining delivery processes, translating business needs into technical plans, managing execution across engineering and research teams, and ensuring customer adoption and value realization. It requires deep technical project management, ownership, and the ability to work in ambiguous, high-autonomy environments, with a focus on shipping AI/LLM systems to customers and codifying reusable patterns from field insights. | Ship | 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Business Development Representative This role is for a senior Business Development Representative focused on building and scaling OpenAI's presence in the Japan market for strategic and large enterprise clients, DNB, and startups. The BDR will generate pipeline through outbound efforts, partner with Account Directors, lead discovery, and contribute to AI-enabled GTM workflows. The role requires strong Japanese and English communication skills, a track record in B2B SaaS sales development, and comfort with technical buyers. It serves as a launchpad for future sellers at OpenAI, offering exposure to enterprise sales, product, and customer strategy. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales - Tokyo This role is a Solutions Engineer focused on pre-sales for OpenAI's API platform and ChatGPT business product. The primary responsibility is to partner with customers to understand their needs, guide their AI strategy, demonstrate the value of OpenAI's solutions, and recommend architectural patterns. The role involves technical expertise, customer relationship management, and collaboration with sales and product teams. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Engineer - Tokyo This role focuses on ensuring developers and enterprises are successful in building scalable production applications using the OpenAI API platform. The AI Deployment Engineer will partner with strategic customers to guide them through application ideation, development, delivery, and scaling, accelerating their time to value and maximizing the benefits of OpenAI's models. The role involves prototyping solutions, managing customer relationships, contributing to open-source resources, and synthesizing feedback for Product and Research teams. | Ship | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer - Tokyo This role is an AI Support Engineer focused on customer adoption and support of OpenAI's AI products. The engineer will resolve complex customer issues, provide technical guidance, and work with cross-functional teams to improve product experience and scale support operations. They will leverage AI tools and emerging capabilities to automate processes and improve internal tooling, contributing to the success of AI solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Tokyo Software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail. Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Support Engineer - Tokyo Senior Support Engineer role focused on providing technical guidance and resolving complex issues for enterprise customers using OpenAI's API platform. The role involves designing and running operational processes, leveraging automation and AI to scale support, configuring monitoring and alerting, contributing to reliability reviews, refining incident response, and analyzing operational metrics. Requires strong troubleshooting, SRE/NOC, monitoring, incident response, scripting (Python), cloud infrastructure, and cross-functional collaboration skills. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, Public Sector - Tokyo This role is for an Account Director in the Public Sector for OpenAI, focusing on selling and deploying AI products to enterprise clients in Tokyo. The role involves managing key accounts, driving sales cycles, collaborating with internal teams, and achieving revenue targets. It requires strong sales experience, technical understanding, and excellent communication skills in Japanese and English. | — | 0 |
| Account Director, FSI - Japan Account Director for Financial Services in Japan, responsible for managing key accounts, driving sales cycles, and achieving revenue targets for OpenAI's AI products. This role requires technical understanding, strategic vision, and partnership building to help customers leverage AI. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Manager, Ads Solutions Customer Success Manager for OpenAI's advertising platform, focusing on advertiser onboarding, growth, and success. This role involves relationship management, strategic guidance, and cross-functional collaboration to drive revenue and improve the advertiser experience. | — | 0 |
| Regional Client Partner, Ads Solutions This role is focused on driving new and expanded advertising revenue and ensuring successful business results for advertisers. The individual will own the full sales cycle, from prospecting to deal closure, developing long-term commercial partnerships to help advertisers achieve their business objectives while ensuring a strong and responsible experience on OpenAI's platform. This role requires fluency in both Japanese and English. | — | 0 |
| Partner Director This role is responsible for building and scaling strategic partner relationships in Japan, focusing on driving enablement, coordinating joint solution development, and ensuring commercial activation across the partner lifecycle to accelerate revenue growth. The Partner Director will act as the connective tissue between OpenAI and its partners' delivery, technical, and sales organizations to ensure partnerships deliver results. | — | 0 |
| Consumer Marketing Lead, Japan Seeking an experienced Consumer Marketing Lead for Japan to define and drive consumer marketing strategy and execution. This role requires a full-stack marketer with deep understanding of the Japanese consumer landscape, ability to build and scale locally resonant campaigns, shape narratives, and accelerate adoption. Responsibilities include leading integrated marketing initiatives across brand, product storytelling, digital, creators, and partnerships, acting as the voice of the Japanese consumer internally. | — | 0 |
| Sales Manager, Enterprise - Japan Sales Manager for Enterprise segment in Japan, responsible for driving sales strategy, recruiting and leading a team of technical sales professionals, and achieving successful deployments with customers. Requires significant sales leadership experience and a comprehensive understanding of AI technologies. | — | 0 |
| Account Director EDU- Tokyo Account Director for OpenAI's EDU sector in Tokyo, focusing on driving adoption and revenue of AI products through strategic account management and sales cycle leadership. Requires strong technical understanding, partnership building, and C-level engagement. | — | 0 |
| Account Director - Tokyo Account Director role focused on driving adoption and revenue of OpenAI's AI products within key enterprise accounts in Tokyo. This role involves managing the full sales cycle, building customer relationships, and collaborating with internal technical teams to ensure successful deployment and value realization of AI solutions. | — | 0 |
| Account Director, Digital Natives & Startups - Japan | — | — |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | Tokyo | — | — |