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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| SMS Prototype Handling Specialist This role is for a Senior SMS Prototype Handling Specialist at OpenAI, focusing on securing and managing sensitive product prototypes and logistics. The specialist will be responsible for maintaining accountability, operating a secure prototype library, coordinating international logistics, and supporting engineering teams through prototype cycles. The role requires strong judgment, discretion, and the ability to work independently in high-trust environments. | — | 0 |
| Camera Firmware Engineer, Consumer Devices OpenAI's Consumer Products team is seeking a Camera Firmware Engineer to develop and maintain low-level camera firmware and software for custom hardware, enabling reliable and controllable camera sensors for end-to-end AI-powered devices. This role involves board bring-up, driver development, capture path validation, and building tooling to support production camera systems. | — | 0 |
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| System Software Engineer, Consumer Devices OpenAI is seeking a Systems Software Engineer to build foundational platform software for reliable, secure, and performant consumer devices. The role involves designing, implementing, and debugging system-level components, OS platform services, and image/update pipelines. Responsibilities include performance analysis, observability, and establishing strong engineering practices. The ideal candidate has production systems software experience, proficiency in C/C++, and strong debugging skills. | — | 0 |
| Embedded SWE, Consumer Devices This role focuses on designing, implementing, and debugging software for embedded devices on custom hardware, optimizing for memory, power, and latency. It involves low-level bring-up, writing production C/C++ code, and collaborating with hardware teams to ensure robust and efficient embedded platforms. | — | 0 |
| Account Director, Federal Partnerships This role is for an Account Director focused on Federal Partnerships at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is to drive federal sales cycles, help government customers understand and deploy AI products, and manage key federal accounts. The role involves collaborating with researchers and engineers to tailor AI solutions for government missions and achieving revenue targets. It requires extensive experience in federal government sales, understanding government contracting, and communicating technical concepts to government executives. | — | 0 |
| Physical Design Engineer OpenAI is seeking a Physical Design Engineer to design custom silicon for AI accelerators. This role involves developing tools, flows, and methodologies for physical implementation, owning physical implementation of blocks, and collaborating with RTL designers to optimize for performance, power, and area. The role requires expertise in physical design, methodology development, and hands-on experience with complex silicon designs. | — | 0 |
| RTL & Codesign Engineer This role focuses on designing and implementing RTL for custom AI accelerators, working closely with architecture, verification, and ML engineers. It involves microarchitecture, RTL production, performance modeling, and hardware/software co-design for AI workloads. | — | 0 |
| Account Director, Financial Services Account Director for Financial Services at OpenAI, responsible for executive-level relationships and driving the adoption of OpenAI's AI products within leading financial institutions. This role requires a blend of sales expertise, technical understanding, and business acumen to help clients leverage AI for data analysis, operations automation, research, and customer engagement. | — | 0 |
| Content Designer Content Designer for ChatGPT team at OpenAI, focusing on making AI products intuitive and accessible. Collaborates with design, engineering, and research to shape product direction and user experience. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Frontier Systems Infrastructure This role focuses on building and operating the infrastructure for large-scale AI model training. It involves managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters, automating bare-metal bring-up, and ensuring the reliability and efficiency of compute clusters that power frontier AI research. The role blends distributed systems engineering with hands-on infrastructure work, focusing on the software layer that abstracts the complexity of massive node counts across multiple data centers. | — | 0 |
| Design Verification Engineer OpenAI is seeking a Design Verification Engineer to ensure the functional correctness and robustness of their custom AI-native silicon and ML accelerators. The role involves owning the verification of complex hardware systems, defining verification plans, developing testbenches using SystemVerilog/UVM, driving bug analysis, and contributing to regression infrastructure. This is a hardware engineering role focused on the verification of AI-specific hardware components. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance Software Engineer to architect and build backend systems for data privacy and compliance automation. This role involves designing and operating services that enforce policy-driven data access, lifecycle controls, and privacy protections, integrating with various teams like product, infrastructure, security, and legal. The goal is to embed privacy-by-design into data and access layers, ensuring continuous verifiability of compliance through auditability and observability. | — | 0 |
| Connectivity Software Engineer, Consumer Devices This role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing wireless connectivity features (Bluetooth, BLE, Wi-Fi) across OpenAI's product ecosystem. It involves working with kernel drivers, system services, and user-level tools to ensure robust device pairing, network performance, and interoperability. The engineer will debug low-level protocols, drive performance under RF constraints, and support certification and fleet-scale operations. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Hardware Operations Technician Lead, Industrial Compute This role supports the operation and maintenance of AI compute infrastructure, specifically focusing on datacenter hardware operations in collaboration with partners like Oracle. The technician will coordinate physical hardware activities, ensure maintenance and repairs align with OpenAI's compute needs, and help develop operational standards for future projects. | — | 0 |
| Datacenter Networking Technician, AI Compute Deployment - Stargate This role is for a Senior Data Center Networking Technician focused on the physical deployment and build-out of AI infrastructure, specifically data center campuses. The technician will be responsible for the physical bring-up, troubleshooting, and optimization of network infrastructure, as well as developing standards and leading future deployments. While the company builds AI, this role focuses on the underlying physical infrastructure, not AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Database Systems Software Engineer for Database Systems team building and operating high-performance distributed databases, including Rockset, which powers RAG and vector search at OpenAI. Focus on core engine improvements, ingestion, query execution, indexing, and storage. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Caching Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and scaling a multi-tenant caching platform for OpenAI's AI products. This role involves designing, operating, and defining the long-term vision for a critical infrastructure component that supports use cases like inference, identity, and quota management. Requires deep expertise in distributed systems, caching (Redis, Memcached), and Kubernetes. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Core Services Software Engineer, Core Services at OpenAI responsible for designing, building, and maintaining foundational backend infrastructure services like caching, workflow orchestration, metadata stores, and file services. Focuses on reliability, scalability, and performance to support product teams. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Fleet Hardware Health Software Engineer responsible for the reliability and uptime of OpenAI's compute fleet, focusing on minimizing hardware failures in large-scale supercomputing infrastructure through automation and system-level investigations. | — | 0 |
| IT Support Specialist This role provides frontline IT support, manages hardware/software, and improves IT systems and processes. It requires strong technical expertise in macOS and Windows, excellent communication, and problem-solving skills. Experience with ITSM tools like ServiceNow and AV orchestration is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Payments Software Engineer on the Payments Team responsible for designing and building core payment systems, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions, and ensuring financial systems support rapid product iteration and global reach. This role focuses on the infrastructure powering OpenAI's financial systems, including user-facing payment experiences and integrations with payment service providers. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Hardware Health Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure for large-scale AI model training supercomputers. Responsibilities include system health checks, deep dives into hardware failures, and building automation to ensure reliability and efficiency during training runs. This role supports cutting-edge AI research by keeping the underlying systems stable. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Privacy Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and operating technical systems for legal compliance workflows, including secure data processing and document review, within OpenAI's Privacy Engineering team. This role involves designing data pipelines, building search and discovery services, automating secure data transfers, and creating locked-down compute environments, collaborating closely with Legal, Security, and partner engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data) Software Engineer role focused on building and operating a core online database platform (Habitat) for OpenAI's internal user data. Responsibilities include designing and implementing abstractions for storage, caching, routing, CDC, and privacy enforcement, while improving performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads. The role requires strong distributed systems experience and ownership of end-to-end system development and operations. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer, Application Security Security Engineer, Application Security role at OpenAI focused on identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in software applications through building security tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. The role involves collaborating with development teams to integrate secure coding practices throughout the SDLC and providing security guidance. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer, Application Security Security Engineer, Application Security at OpenAI responsible for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities within software applications through building security tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. Collaborates with development teams to ensure secure coding practices and provides security guidance. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Compute - Storage Software Engineer for Storage Infrastructure team at OpenAI, responsible for building and operating storage systems that support both research and production workloads. This role involves working with object storage, cross-region data movement, lifecycle management, and a federation layer, primarily using Rust and Kubernetes. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Frontier Clusters Infrastructure This role focuses on building and operating the infrastructure for large-scale AI model training. It involves managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters, automating bare-metal bring-up, and developing software abstractions for compute clusters. The goal is to ensure the reliability and efficiency of hyperscale supercomputers used for frontier model training. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management Software Engineer focused on power management for large-scale supercomputers used for AI model training. The role involves developing and implementing system-level and software-level solutions to optimize power usage, build automation for monitoring and stabilization, and collaborate with researchers and hardware teams. Requires strong software engineering experience, Python proficiency, and knowledge of distributed systems and electrical engineering concepts. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer, Application Security Security Engineer focused on application security, responsible for identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities through tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and assessments. Collaborates with development teams to integrate security throughout the SDLC and fosters security awareness. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Real Time Software Engineer focused on building and scaling real-time communication systems for products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. This role involves full-stack development, infrastructure management (Kubernetes, Go, Python), and ensuring the reliable operation of globally deployed systems, including participation in an on-call rotation. Experience with real-time communication products, audio/video calling, WebRTC, and scaled production systems is highly valued. While ML experience is a plus, it is not a requirement. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Financial Engineering Software Engineer role focused on architecting and building next-generation billing and monetization systems for OpenAI's ChatGPT and API users. The role involves developing across the stack to create comprehensive billing integrations, designing a scalable and enterprise-ready platform for subscription and usage-based offerings, and constructing tools for internal teams. Collaboration with Product, Data, Finance, and Go-To-Market teams is key. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, with bonus for payments/billing/monetization experience. Ability to work in a fast-paced, sometimes loosely defined environment is important. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Ad Formats | — | — |
| Strategic Sourcing Leader - Enterprise & Engineering Technology | — | — |
| Tech Lead, Deployment & Operations — Custom Infrastructure | — | — |
| Data Scientist, Safety | — | — |
| Customer Success Manager, Ads Solutions (Spanish Speaking) | — | — |
| Director of Product Finance, Compute & Infrastructure Demand | — | — |
| Solutions Architect, Digital Natives | — | — |
| AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents | — | — |
| Strategic Finance, Product | — | — |
| Readiness & Enablement Lead, SMB Sales | — | — |
| Supply Chain Operations Program Manager, AI Infrastructure | — | — |
| Supply Chain Program Manager (SCPM) - AI Infrastructure | — | — |
| GTM Growth Product Manager, Agentic Systems | — | — |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering | — | — |
| Senior Data Engineer, Core Experimentation | — | — |
| Model Policy | — | — |
| Data Scientist, Core Experimentation | — | — |