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 |
|---|---|---|
| AI Success Engineer - San Francisco 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 acts as a trusted advisor, bridging technical capabilities with business goals and influencing product development through customer feedback. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - US Remote AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization for enterprise clients using OpenAI's AI platform. This role requires deep technical knowledge of OpenAI products, APIs, and common integration patterns, as well as experience with enterprise security and compliance frameworks. The engineer will act as a trusted advisor, identify use cases, lead deployments, and translate customer needs into actionable roadmaps, while also providing feedback to Product, Engineering, and Research teams. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Software Engineer, Workload Enablement Software Engineer to enable production workloads and end-to-end testing on new platforms for AI infrastructure. This role involves creating test harnesses, porting inference and training workloads, analyzing performance, and characterizing system behavior. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Hardware / Software CoDesign Engineer - 3P This role focuses on co-designing hardware with vendors to optimize it for AI workloads, specifically for training and inference of large language models. It involves understanding ML techniques, algorithms, and numerical approximations to influence future hardware architectures and improve performance. The engineer will also build system performance models and evaluate potential accelerators. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Technical Abuse Investigator This role focuses on detecting, investigating, and disrupting the misuse of OpenAI's AI platform. The investigator will develop and scale investigative processes, build technical solutions like data pipelines and utilities, and collaborate with various teams to improve detection and enforcement strategies. The role requires technical fluency in navigating complex datasets and automating manual processes, with a focus on agentic AI misuse and other relevant domains. | Agent | 7 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)- Platform This role is a founding Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) for the FDE Platform team at OpenAI. The primary focus is on making early design partner deployments successful, from scoping to production adoption and demonstrated value. The role involves driving alignment across OpenAI and customer stakeholders, managing delivery plans, ensuring enterprise constraints (security, auditability, infra) are handled, and converting learnings into actionable improvements. Success is measured by delivered outcomes, adoption in critical workflows, and platform reliability. | Ship | 7 |
| Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYC Platform Engineer within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) to build new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. This role involves partnering with customer-tagged FDEs to provide hands-on leverage in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, and building, turning repeated customer signals into platform bets and raising the engineering bar through tooling and mentorship. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Observability Software Engineer role focused on building the observability product for OpenAI, including scalable infrastructure for logs and metrics, and AI-native tools like agents for issue detection and debugging. The role involves owning core observability infrastructure and contributing to UI experiences, with a focus on making production systems reliable, performant, and observable. It's an engineering role within an AI company, building AI-powered internal tools. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Manager, AI Success Engineers - San Francisco Manager for AI Success Engineers focused on driving adoption and value realization of OpenAI's AI products (ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, custom GPTs) for enterprise customers, involving post-sale technical success, onboarding, and strategic partnerships. | Ship | 7 |
| Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) -SF Platform Engineer within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) at OpenAI. This role focuses on building new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. The engineer will partner with customer-tagged FDEs to provide hands-on leverage in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, hardening, and creating reusable abstractions. The goal is to translate cross-customer patterns into platform bets and raise the engineering bar through tooling and mentorship, ultimately contributing to shipped software, repeatable patterns, and durable products. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI) Software Engineer focused on building and scaling backend infrastructure for AI-powered knowledge and automation systems. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that integrate OpenAI models into high-leverage workflows, supporting internal and external customers. The team iterates fast and engineers for reliable long-term impact, focusing on building simple primitives to apply knowledge to many domains. | Agent | 7 |
| Model Policy Manager, Chemical & Biological Risk This role focuses on developing and implementing policies for AI models concerning chemical and biological risks. It involves creating structured policy frameworks and taxonomies to guide safe model behavior, translating biosecurity expertise into actionable model policies, and identifying emerging risk vectors. The role sits at the intersection of biosecurity expertise, AI safety research, and policy design, aiming to reduce misuse risks while enabling beneficial research. | Post-trainEval Gate | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer, Government AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform for government customers. This role requires deep technical understanding of OpenAI products, customer advisory skills, and program management to guide customers from initial deployment to scaled enterprise adoption. | Agent | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Global Campaigns and Special Projects Manager, Global Affairs This role is for a Global Campaigns and Special Projects Manager within OpenAI's Global Affairs team. The primary focus is on coordinating and executing global policy campaigns, flagship initiatives, and special projects. While the role involves working at an AI company and utilizing AI tools, its core function is not the direct development or research of AI/ML models. The role aims to support the company's mission by engaging with external stakeholders and shaping policy, leveraging AI tools to enhance operational effectiveness. | — | 5 |
| Data Engineer, Scaling Analytics Data Engineer role focused on building and scaling analytical foundations for OpenAI's AI infrastructure organization, supporting operations, capacity planning, and supply chain through data pipelines, models, and reporting systems. | — | 5 |
| Credit and Collections Lead This role is for a Credit and Collections Lead at OpenAI who will scale global accounts receivable, credit risk, and collections operations. The role has a strong mandate to leverage AI and automation to improve risk identification, account prioritization, customer outreach, dispute resolution, reporting, and exception management, ultimately building a more intelligent and scalable credit and collections operating model. The lead will define and execute the AI and automation roadmap for credit and collections, partnering with Finance Systems, Product, and Engineering teams. | — | 5 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT Finances Full-stack engineer to build and scale ChatGPT Finances, owning features from frontend to backend services and data models. The role involves integrating AI capabilities to provide grounded, transparent, and useful financial insights through conversational interfaces, focusing on user trust and data security within a fintech domain. | Ship | 5 |
| Program Manager, Foundations Data and Operations This role is for a Program Manager focused on acquiring training data for AI models. The responsibilities include defining data needs with researchers, managing acquisition workflows, leading vendor engagements, and establishing quality metrics. While the role supports AI model development, the core function is program management and data acquisition operations, not direct AI/ML model building or research. | — | 5 |
| Customer Education, Content & Systems Operations Lead This role is for a Customer Education, Content & Systems Operations Lead at OpenAI. The primary focus is on building and managing the operational foundation for customer education programs, ensuring content quality, and scaling workflows. While the role involves using AI tools to improve operations and working with AI products, the core craft is not building AI models or systems, but rather enabling customers to use them effectively and responsibly. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, Startups Account Director for OpenAI's Startup Go To Market team, responsible for managing relationships with top startup customers, driving their success on the OpenAI platform, and achieving consumption revenue targets. This role requires technical understanding, strategic partnership, and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 5 |
| GRC Program Manager, Product and Customer Trust This role is for a GRC Program Manager at OpenAI, focusing on product and customer trust. The primary responsibility is to scale the GRC function across product launches, regulatory readiness, and customer trust by partnering with various teams to ensure security and compliance claims are accurate and actionable. The role involves building systems, content, and automation to support enterprise customers and emerging regulations without becoming a bottleneck. While the company is AI-focused and the role mentions using AI-native tools, the core function is GRC and product assurance, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, State and Local Government (West Coast) Account Director for State and Local Government (West Coast) at OpenAI, focusing on helping government customers leverage and deploy AI products. This role involves managing key accounts, driving sales cycles, and collaborating with internal teams to advance government missions through AI. | — | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer - San Francisco (Weekend Shift) This role is an AI Support Engineer responsible for directly interacting with customers, troubleshooting complex issues, providing technical guidance, and improving internal tooling and operational processes. The role involves using AI capabilities to enhance support operations and scale the support organization, acting as a bridge between customers and core product/engineering teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Internal Applications - Enterprise Software Engineer to build internal enterprise applications that automate technology support and administration, reduce manual intervention, and create agentic systems for ticket resolution. Focus on integrating employees, AI agents, and human responders within an ITSM framework, emphasizing user experience and secure, auditable automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Analytics Engineer, Safety Systems The Analytics Engineer on the Safety Systems team will build data-centric culture and enhance decision-making through analytics. They will partner with Engineering, Research, and Data Science to develop and maintain canonical data sources and dashboards for safety metrics, enabling trustworthy insights for people and AI agents. The role owns the consumption layer for safety metrics, defining ways for stakeholders to understand product safety, answer questions, and inform product decisions and company strategy. This role is crucial for advancing the goals of safe, robust, and reliable AI. | Data | 5 |
| Operations Enablement Program Manager, User Safety & Risk Operations This role focuses on building and scaling operational systems for user safety and risk operations, including managing human review workflows, vendor performance, capacity planning, and integrating automation. While the company is AI-focused and the role mentions using automation and models, the core craft is operations management and system building, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences Account Director for Healthcare & Life Sciences at OpenAI, responsible for executive relationships and driving adoption of AI products within these organizations. This role requires a blend of scientific literacy, technical depth, business acumen, and enterprise sales experience, with a focus on secure, compliant, and high-impact AI deployments in regulated environments. | — | 5 |
| Firmware Lead, Robotics Lead firmware development for general-purpose robotics, focusing on safety-critical systems, real-time execution, and co-design with ML research. This role involves defining architecture, driving reliability, and hands-on implementation, with a strong emphasis on safety and rapid iteration. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Operations Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations This role focuses on building and scaling operational capacity for new and evolving areas within User Safety & Risk Operations at OpenAI. The Strategic Operations Lead will define operating models, launch plans, and execution rhythms for new products and partnerships, ensuring clear ownership, monitoring, and escalation paths for safety and risk management. The role requires strong technical fluency, analytical skills, and the ability to coordinate across multiple teams to translate complex constraints into practical workflows. | — | 5 |
| Revenue Operations BP - Technical Success This role is for a Revenue Operations Manager within OpenAI's Go To Market (GTM) team, specifically supporting the Technical Success team. The focus is on optimizing operations, enhancing customer experience, and providing data-driven insights to drive strategic decision-making. While the company develops AI, this role is operational and customer-facing, not directly involved in building or researching AI models. | — | 5 |
| Product Policy, Biosecurity Policy Manager This role focuses on developing and implementing policies for the safe use of AI in the life sciences and biosecurity domains. It involves understanding both the legitimate applications of AI in biology and the potential for misuse, and translating this understanding into practical product policies, access criteria, and enforcement guidance. The role requires collaboration with various internal teams (product, engineering, research, safety, legal) and external stakeholders to manage biological risks associated with AI capabilities. | — | 5 |
| Developer Education Lead OpenAI is seeking a Developer Education Lead to define and execute the strategy for educating developers and organizations on how to use their AI products. This role involves creating learning experiences, demos, and programs to help users integrate AI into their applications and workflows, fostering AI fluency and responsible usage. | — | 5 |
| National Security Lead, State and Local Government, Global Affairs This role focuses on engaging with state and local government leaders on homeland security, emergency management, cybersecurity, election security, law enforcement, and public safety issues related to AI. The individual will represent OpenAI, build relationships, develop policy engagement strategies, and identify beneficial uses of AI in these sectors. While the role interacts with AI and its implications, it does not involve the direct building or research of AI models or systems. | — | 5 |
| AI Adoption, Content & Community Manager, OpenAI for Government This role focuses on enabling AI adoption within government sectors by creating content, building communities, and delivering training on tools like ChatGPT. It's a product-focused role that supports user adoption and understanding of AI tools, rather than building the AI itself. | — | 5 |