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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 product and research teams to drive adoption and gather feedback. | Ship | 9 |
| AI Deployment Engineer - Startups AI Deployment Engineer role focused on working with strategic startup customers to optimize AI systems, identify failure modes, and translate learnings into product improvements and evaluation systems. This role involves prototyping prompts and agents, designing evaluations, and acting as a technical partner to customers. | Agent |
| 9 |
| Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - London Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering team responsible for partnering with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems, owning end-to-end delivery outcomes, and informing roadmap priorities through fieldwork. Requires experience managing customer-facing engineers and leading high-pressure technical projects. | Ship | 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| Recruiter, AI/ML Research EMEA Recruiter role focused on identifying, engaging, and recruiting top AI/ML researchers and technical scientists for OpenAI's research organization. This role acts as a strategic partner to research staff, helping define hiring priorities, shape search strategies, and influence hiring decisions. It requires deep interest in AI research and experience recruiting in highly technical environments. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - London This role focuses on partnering with customers to build and deploy custom software solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs. The engineer will embed with clients, design and develop full-stack solutions, and act as a technical advisor, contributing to the scaling of customer delivery and providing feedback to internal teams. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Detection and Response - EMEA Security Engineer focused on Detection and Response for OpenAI's infrastructure, products, and research environments. The role involves building and operating systems to detect suspicious activity, automate response, and partner with other teams to ensure security requirements are met. It also includes evaluating and responding to emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab, with a specific mention of agents operating across infrastructure at scale. | — | 5 |
| Program Manager, Technology Capital Builds This role is for a Program Manager responsible for executing Technology Capital Builds at OpenAI. The role involves coordinating with various internal teams (Real Estate, IT, Security) and external partners to design and deliver technical solutions for facility build-outs, including offices, labs, and datacenters. Key responsibilities include ensuring secure and reliable network infrastructure, AV systems, and physical security, managing project scope, schedule, budget, and quality, and providing portfolio status visibility. The role requires strong project management skills, knowledge of construction processes, and vendor management experience. | — | 0 |
| Physical Security Systems Engineer This role is for a Physical Security Systems Engineer at OpenAI, responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining physical security systems such as access control, video surveillance, and GSOC workflows across global facilities. The role involves troubleshooting technical issues, managing operational tickets, coordinating with integrators and vendors, and partnering with IT/NetEng and Workplace teams to ensure system reliability and scalability. The focus is on hybrid physical security infrastructure engineering, operational systems support, stakeholder coordination, and vendor management, aiming to improve operational consistency and reduce manual work through automation opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Corporate Security Operations Manager, London This role is for a Corporate Security Operations Manager in London, responsible for leading day-to-day corporate and physical security operations for OpenAI's London office. The role involves managing access control, visitor management, incident response, security vendors, and partnering with various internal teams to ensure a safe workplace. It requires 8+ years of experience in corporate security or related fields, with a focus on managing office-based physical security and vendor operations. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining the core cloud infrastructure that supports OpenAI's products like ChatGPT and the API. This includes Kubernetes clusters, deployment, networking, and cloud abstractions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. | — | 0 |