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.
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| Regional Client Partner, Ads Solutions (Spanish Speaking) This role is focused on driving new and expanded advertising revenue and ensuring successful business results for advertisers. You 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 our platform. | — | 0 |
| GRC Program Manager, US Government Compliance Program Manager responsible for obtaining and maintaining US Government Authorizations to Operate (ATOs) and compliance with frameworks like FedRAMP for OpenAI products in highly regulated and secure environments. Requires deep understanding of USG security frameworks, technical program management, and collaboration with engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Revenue Enablement This role is for a Senior Manager, Revenue Enablement at OpenAI. The primary focus is on owning the business-side systems roadmap for Revenue, translating finance and operational requirements into executable workstreams, and driving launch readiness, controls, and process automation across deal-to-cash and revenue operations workflows. It requires strong finance systems fluency, program management rigor, and cross-functional influence to support OpenAI's scaling monetization efforts. |
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| CPU/Storage/PoP-WAN Program Manager This role is for a Program Manager focused on the end-to-end infrastructure layers required to bring compute online for AI workloads, including server and cluster activation, storage platforms, Points of Presence (PoPs), and backbone connectivity. The role involves coordinating hardware, site readiness, network, and engineering dependencies to convert contracted infrastructure into live training and inference capacity. While the infrastructure supports AI, the role itself is not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Customer Marketing Manager, Enterprise and Digital Natives Customer Marketing Manager at OpenAI focused on enterprise and digital native storytelling, showcasing how leading organizations deploy AI. The role involves owning customer story development from intake to publication, interviewing stakeholders, writing and editing stories, and translating technical implementations into compelling narratives for both technical and executive audiences. It requires partnering with GTM, Product Marketing, and Communications teams to identify high-impact storytelling opportunities and support co-marketing efforts. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Controls Network Engineer OpenAI is seeking a mid to senior OT Network Engineer to design, validate, and scale the controls and OT network architectures for high-density AI data centers. This role involves defining requirements, developing reference architectures, and ensuring the resilience, security, and scalability of OT network designs, partnering with various engineering and operations teams. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager (Network and Whitespace) This role is for an Engineering Program Manager focused on Data Center Infrastructure, specifically network and whitespace facilities, to support OpenAI's AI research and products. The EPM will translate infrastructure goals into executable programs, coordinate cross-functional teams (including network, controls, electrical, mechanical), manage external partners, and ensure readiness for deployment and operations. The role requires managing complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes engineering programs from concept through to operational handoff. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Infrastructure Mechanical Engineer Seeking a senior mechanical engineer to design, validate, and scale cooling and mechanical systems for high-density AI data centers. This role involves defining thermal architectures, evaluating equipment, and driving technical decisions across various teams to ensure reliable and efficient operation of liquid-cooled AI compute infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer Seeking a senior electrical engineer to design, validate, and scale power systems for high-density AI data centers. This role involves translating compute requirements into facility and rack-power architectures, evaluating new technologies, and driving technical decisions across the lifecycle of electrical power systems. | — | 0 |
| Environmental Health and Safety, Engineering & Technical Program Manager This role is for an Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager focused on supporting hardware engineering, research and development, and technical operations environments. The primary responsibilities include assessing and controlling exposure risks, strengthening safe work practices, building scalable EHS programs, and providing EHS advisory input on product and equipment safety. The role emphasizes operational judgment, field presence, and collaboration with technical teams to ensure regulatory compliance and safety in fast-moving environments. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Consumer Devices Seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 8+ years of experience to design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure platforms powering OpenAI's products. This role involves deep technical expertise in Kubernetes, cloud abstractions, and distributed systems, with a focus on influencing technical direction and ensuring operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Test Engineer, AI Compute Infrastructure - Stargate This role focuses on developing and executing manufacturing test strategies for AI compute infrastructure hardware. The engineer will collaborate with manufacturing partners, define test requirements, drive Design for Test (DFT), build automated test scripts, resolve yield issues, and ensure hardware is testable, reliable, and production-ready at scale. The role is crucial for ensuring the quality of hardware powering OpenAI's frontier AI systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform at OpenAI. Focuses on designing, building, and operating critical backend/systems infrastructure in Rust or C++ to support research workflows. Emphasizes low-level performance, distributed systems, and hands-on operation of services at scale, including debugging production bottlenecks and improving reliability on Kubernetes. | — | 0 |
| Industrial Security Lead, Washington DC The Industrial Security Lead will develop and scale a world-class industrial security program across multiple locations, focusing on building and managing secure facilities for government partners, overseeing personnel security programs, and ensuring strict compliance with U.S. government regulations. This role requires deep expertise in U.S. Government industrial security programs and hands-on program execution. | — | 0 |
| Senior Counsel, Product (Hardware Safety & Customer Support) This role is for a Senior Counsel focused on legal initiatives for consumer hardware products, including product safety, environmental compliance, customer support, and related legal risks. It involves working with engineering and product teams to navigate legal and AI consumer device issues. | — | 0 |
| Senior Paralegal, Litigation Senior Paralegal to support litigation, dispute resolution, and regulatory matters at OpenAI, a leading AI research and deployment company. This role involves case management, fact investigations, and process development within the Legal team. | — | 0 |
| Partner Manager, OpenAI for Government This role is for a Partner Manager at OpenAI for Government, focusing on managing strategic partnerships with major platform and cloud providers (like AWS) to drive commercial outcomes and delivery readiness. The role requires strong program management, cross-functional coordination, and experience managing complex external relationships in the AI ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager of Technical Accounting, Strategic Transactions Senior Manager of Technical Accounting, Strategic Transactions at OpenAI. This role focuses on leading the assessment, documentation, and operationalization of complex accounting matters, including revenue recognition, leases, stock-based compensation, business combinations, and investments. The position involves partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure accounting conclusions are reflected in financial statements and processes, and maintaining the company's technical accounting framework. It is a product-focused role within the finance function, not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, System Enablement Software Engineer, System Enablement role at OpenAI focuses on building and maintaining the infrastructure backbone for deploying and operating AI models. This involves end-to-end system bring-up, provisioning automation, fleet management, and integrating new hardware into schedulable capacity. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes, IaC, provisioning, networking, and automation scripting, with a focus on ensuring system stability, observability, and readiness for internal customers. | — | 0 |
| Facilities Operations Lead - Stargate This role is for a Facilities Operations Lead responsible for the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of AI data centers. It involves managing infrastructure, defining operational processes, and ensuring the reliability of facilities that support AI workloads. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security Principal Software Engineer for Infrastructure Security at OpenAI, focusing on safeguarding core research and production environments including GPU clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, and critical services powering AI models. The role involves owning architecture and roadmap for security services, designing planet-scale security systems, leading cross-functional launches, building security primitives, and leveraging frontier models for automation and detection. Requires strong software engineering, distributed systems, and security infrastructure experience, with expertise in cloud platforms and leading technical initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Executive IT Support Lead This role is for an Executive IT Support Lead responsible for building and managing a high-touch IT support program for executives at OpenAI. The lead will provide direct support, design the program's growth, and coordinate with IT and Security teams to ensure executives have secure and efficient technology. The role requires extensive experience in executive IT support, strong technical skills in macOS/Windows, identity management, and collaboration tools, excellent communication, and a security-first mindset. | — | 0 |
| Sales Development Representative - SF Sales Development Representative role at OpenAI focused on helping enterprise clients adopt and scale the AI platform. This role is a launchpad for future enterprise sellers, involving discovery, stakeholder mapping, deal shaping, and executive communication. The candidate will identify and advance enterprise opportunities by turning product usage and inbound demand into qualified leads for the sales teams. The role also involves building and iterating on AI-enabled GTM workflows. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineer - Rack Infrastructure & Site Operations - Stargate This role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of datacenter infrastructure that supports AI workloads. The Quality Engineer will establish and manage quality programs across the supply chain, conduct vendor assessments, drive yield improvements, and implement corrective actions. The role requires experience in manufacturing quality management and supplier quality engineering, with a focus on complex projects and mission-critical facilities. | — | 0 |
| Infrastructure Partnership Delivery Lead – Stargate This role focuses on managing the delivery and operational readiness of AI infrastructure, specifically large-scale datacenter campuses (Stargate program) built in partnership with capital partners. It involves overseeing construction, hardware deployment, and partner operations to ensure efficient and reliable AI compute infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Global Head of Benefits Lead and improve global benefits programs, policies, and processes for a rapidly growing employee population. Manage a small team, design global benefit constructs based on statutory and regulatory requirements, and partner with senior leaders. Manage global vendor relationships for benefits, retirement, disability, and perks. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure Reliability Software Engineer focused on reliability and scaling of infrastructure that supports AI systems, including research and products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. Responsibilities include designing, building, and operating reliable systems, identifying performance bottlenecks, contributing to incident response, and improving automation. Requires experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and observability tools. | — | 0 |
| Optical Network Engineer This role is for an Optical Network Engineer focused on laser-related work within optical interconnects for large-scale compute systems. The responsibilities include driving laser-focused requirements, evaluating optical components, supporting end-to-end optical testing, and collaborating with external partners and internal teams. The role requires hands-on experience in laser-focused optical engineering and IM/DD optical technologies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Counsel, Corporate (M&A) This role is for a Senior Corporate Counsel specializing in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) at OpenAI. The position involves leading and supporting various corporate transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, and investments, throughout their lifecycle. The counsel will draft and negotiate agreements, provide strategic advice on M&A strategy, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role requires significant transactional legal experience with technology companies and a JD with CA bar qualification. | — | 0 |
| M&A Recruiter, People Recruiter specializing in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) talent evaluation and closing within OpenAI's Strategic Initiatives team. This role partners with various departments to assess and integrate talent during M&A deals, requiring strong judgment, speed, and discretion in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager, Compute Infrastructure The Technical Program Manager for Compute Infrastructure will own the end-to-end delivery of large-scale GPU clusters and compute infrastructure, partnering with engineers to bring clusters online. This role involves managing hardware, networking, power, and cooling, driving execution, risk management, and ensuring alignment across teams to deliver production-ready capacity at scale for both training and inference workloads. | — | 0 |
| IT Solutions Engineer This role is an IT Solutions Engineer focused on operational ownership of identity-connected enterprise SaaS platforms and system change controls. The engineer will ensure production configuration, access models, and platform changes are compliant, auditable, and consistently operated through defined controls. Responsibilities include owning and operationalizing controlled system and workflow changes across identity platforms, SaaS applications, collaboration tooling, and enterprise infrastructure, partnering with Security and IT Support Operations. Key requirements include experience with enterprise SaaS and identity platforms, implementing SOX/SOC 2 controls, and automating platforms and audits. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Quality & Developer Tools, Consumer Devices Software Engineer focused on building and owning the systems that validate device software, including test frameworks, automation, hardware-in-the-loop labs, and release gates. This role emphasizes quality, reliability, and developer tooling for hardware products. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Ads Monetization, Revenue Platform Software Engineer role focused on building and operating core monetization systems for ChatGPT Ads. This involves architecting and developing end-to-end services and pipelines for ads monetization data, ensuring financial correctness, accuracy, auditability, and explainability. The role also includes developing billing integrations and collaborating with various stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Android Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering This role is for an Android Software Engineer to lead the development of new Android experiences for ChatGPT. Responsibilities include designing and developing features, establishing engineering standards, collaborating with cross-functional partners, shaping technical decisions, and mentoring peers. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Android development (Kotlin/Java), modern architecture patterns, and Jetpack, with a passion for mobile UX and system performance. | — | 0 |
| Recruiter, AI/ML Research 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, influencing hiring priorities, shaping search strategies, and guiding hiring decisions to support frontier-model research. | — | 0 |
| Android Engineer, Monetization Senior Android Engineer to build core mobile experiences for monetization, focusing on user sign-up, account management, payments, and safety, while developing reusable Android foundations and ensuring high standards for security, reliability, and privacy. | — | 0 |
| iOS Engineer, Monetization Senior iOS Engineer to build core mobile monetization experiences and iOS foundations for OpenAI's mobile apps. This role involves defining architecture, building purchase flows, subscription management, and monetization-adjacent surfaces, while ensuring security, reliability, privacy, and user trust. The engineer will own complex client-side systems, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products. | — | 0 |
| Component and Product Quality Engineer, Interconnects This role focuses on ensuring the quality of high-speed interconnect hardware (cables, connectors, patch panels, backplanes) used in AI supercomputing infrastructure. It involves end-to-end quality management from design influence and supplier readiness to qualification, ramp, and fleet quality, partnering with various engineering disciplines and external vendors. The role requires problem-solving, defining quality metrics, building qualification strategies, managing supplier performance, and leading root-cause investigations for hardware failures. | — | 0 |
| Compensation Business Partner This role supports global growth by partnering with business leaders, HR Partners, and recruiters to ensure compensation strategies align with business objectives and talent needs. Responsibilities include managing global benchmarking, owning offer approvals, and fostering cross-functional relationships. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Order Systems Engineering Manager to build and operate workflows for quoting, tracking, and fulfillment of everything sold by OpenAI. This includes building critical billing and invoicing capabilities to ensure financial integrity, auditability, and a seamless onboarding and billing journey for enterprise customers. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC Software Engineer for OpenAI's Fleet team, focusing on the reliability and uptime of their large-scale compute fleet (data centers, GPUs, networking). The role involves building and maintaining automation systems for provisioning, managing, and monitoring server health, performance, and lifecycle events. It requires deep system-level investigations, developing automated solutions for detection and remediation, and identifying performance bottlenecks. Prior hardware expertise is not required, but bonus skills include low-level hardware details, management protocols, HPC, and monitoring tools. | — | 0 |
| Industrial Security Lead - San Francisco This role focuses on developing and scaling an industrial security program for OpenAI, ensuring compliance with US government regulations for facilities and personnel, particularly for government partners and sensitive R&D initiatives. The lead will manage secure facilities, oversee personnel security programs, and collaborate with government agencies and contractors. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Core Services Engineering Manager for Core Services at OpenAI, leading teams responsible for highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems that are critical to OpenAI products. The role involves managing and growing infrastructure engineers, building and operating production platforms, setting technical direction for platform foundations, and partnering with various stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Security Reliability Engineer OpenAI is seeking a Security Reliability Engineer to join their Infrastructure Engineering team. This role focuses on building, operating, and scaling reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure for identity, access, endpoint, and shared platform services. The engineer will own infrastructure systems end-to-end, applying SRE principles, implementing infrastructure-as-code, and driving automation for leverage and safety. The role requires significant experience in operating and architecting mission-critical infrastructure and influencing cross-functional partners. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Identity Infrastructure Engineering Manager for Identity Infrastructure at OpenAI, leading a team responsible for foundational identity services that ensure trust, security, and performance for AI products. The role involves technical strategy, team leadership, and managing distributed systems at scale. | — | 0 |
| RTL & Co-design Engineer (junior) The role focuses on designing and implementing RTL for custom AI accelerators, working closely with software and research partners on hardware/software co-design. It involves microarchitecture, RTL production, performance modeling, and collaboration with various engineering teams across the silicon lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Signal Integrity Engineer This role focuses on signal integrity (SI) system design for AI supercomputer products within OpenAI's Hardware organization. The engineer will lead system SI design, collaborate with various engineering teams, identify and evaluate new technologies, perform simulations, and lead system interconnect design and qualification. The role requires deep expertise in SI and strong system-level design knowledge, with at least 10 years of industry experience. | — | 0 |
| Android Engineer, Applied Foundations Senior Android Engineer on the Applied Foundations team at OpenAI, responsible for building and maintaining core mobile experiences for user sign-up, account management, family features, payments, and safety across OpenAI's apps. This role involves owning client-side systems, working cross-functionally, and ensuring high standards for security, reliability, and user trust. | — | 0 |
| Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices Backend Engineer responsible for designing and building scalable, performant, and secure backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure. The role requires a deep understanding of backend systems and the ability to guide technical decisions from hardware to cloud. Experience with Python, Go, system design, performance optimization, and security is expected. | — | 0 |