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.
Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $230k–$555k (avg $372k).
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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| Senior Technical Advisor, National Security Policy, Global Affairs This role focuses on the intersection of national security policy, AI safety, and technical AI governance. The Senior Technical Advisor will advise on high-stakes policy questions related to capable AI systems, particularly concerning technical, safety, national security, and societal considerations. Responsibilities include advising on frontier AI safety and governance issues, acting as a cross-functional connector, driving engagement with national AI institutes and technical governance bodies, developing policy strategies for AI system preparation and reaction, representing OpenAI externally, and translating technical realities into policy products. The role requires established trust and credibility within the AI safety, research, and governance communities, along with technical fluency and national security experience. | — | 5 |
| Product Marketing Manager, Cybersecurity Product Marketing Manager for OpenAI's cybersecurity initiative, focusing on bringing frontier AI to cyber defenders. Responsibilities include shaping market narrative, building field assets, and coordinating cross-functional execution for product launches and customer adoption. |
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| Growth, Cross Channel Creative This role focuses on driving user and revenue growth for OpenAI products, particularly ChatGPT, by owning and scaling the performance creative system. It involves developing AI-powered creative strategies and systems across various channels, partnering with Product and Engineering to build underlying AI capabilities, and leading cross-functional collaboration to optimize creative velocity and impact. The role requires a strong blend of creative intuition and analytical rigor, with a focus on system building and performance marketing expertise. | — | 5 |
| Industry Product Marketing Manager Product Marketing Manager to define how OpenAI brings frontier AI to priority industries, shaping market narrative, building field-facing operating systems, and coordinating cross-functional execution for product launches, customer proof, partner moments, events, and account-based campaigns. Requires translating complex model capabilities into clear positioning, credible assets, and practical field execution for enterprise buyers. | — | 5 |
| Public Policy Manager, Global Affairs This role is for a Public Policy Manager on the Global Affairs team at OpenAI. The manager will identify, track, and analyze legislative and regulatory proposals globally, develop global public policy positions informed by legislative trends and technical expertise, and coordinate policy campaigns. The role will focus on AI safety or industrial policy, working with technical teams to translate their perspectives into policy-relevant insights and proposals. The position requires strong analytical, program management, and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and policy functions in a fast-paced environment. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Ads Manager Software Engineer role focused on building Ads Manager, the UI platform for advertisers to manage ad campaigns across OpenAI's ecosystem. This involves developing advertiser-facing products, APIs, tools, and services, working across the full technical stack to create self-serve workflows and scalable APIs for various advertiser types. The role emphasizes designing and implementing distributed systems with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees, while partnering closely with Product, Design, Research, and Go-To-Market teams. It's a greenfield opportunity involving 0->1 product development and contributing to technical strategy. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI Software Engineer focused on building and operating foundational systems for developer productivity, including build systems (Bazel), continuous integration (Buildkite), testing, and remote execution infrastructure. The role aims to improve engineering velocity and reliability within a fast-growing organization, with an emphasis on applying AI tools to enhance CI failure analysis and debugging. | — | 5 |
| Executive Programs Narrative Lead This role focuses on shaping how strategic customers understand and adopt OpenAI's AI technologies within their businesses. It involves developing bespoke executive narratives, translating complex AI concepts into business value, and partnering with various internal teams to create impactful customer experiences. The role requires strong strategic storytelling, customer empathy, and executive communication skills, aiming to drive AI adoption and transformation at scale for enterprise clients. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager, Support Delivery This role is a Technical Program Manager focused on supporting OpenAI's customers in their adoption and effective use of AI products. The role involves defining and implementing foundational support practices, operational frameworks, and tooling/automation projects. A key responsibility is identifying and scaling AI-powered workflows within support operations to improve efficiency and resolution quality. The role requires strong program management, systems building, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with an emphasis on driving customer satisfaction and operational effectiveness for AI products. | — | 5 |
| Product Design Program Manager Product Design Program Manager at OpenAI to scale, support, and streamline operations for the product design organization. This role is strategic and hands-on, shaping team operations and enabling design work. Responsibilities include implementing programs and processes, leading operational planning, building scalable systems, managing assets, overseeing vendors, aligning with other operations teams, managing intake and prioritization, driving clarity on ownership, and facilitating continuous improvement. Requires 8+ years of experience in design operations in high-growth tech environments, experience scaling 0-1 operational systems, familiarity with design and product development processes, and strong organizational and collaboration skills. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, API SDK Software Engineer to build and maintain official SDKs for the OpenAI API, focusing on developer experience and supporting new API features across multiple languages. | — | 5 |
| Marketing Analytics Lead Lead marketing analytics efforts to define and implement data-driven strategies, measure campaign impact, and identify growth opportunities for OpenAI's products and platform. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Security Engineer This role focuses on securing AI deployments for public sector customers, embedding with them to implement and maintain security controls throughout the lifecycle. It involves design partnership, collaboration, and ensuring continuity of security and monitoring controls. | — | 5 |
| Principal Recruiter, Strategic AI Talent Recruiting role focused on identifying, engaging, and closing exceptional talent in the AI research and engineering space, requiring deep market intelligence and tailored strategies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Counsel, AI Product Senior Counsel for AI Product at OpenAI, advising product teams on legal aspects of AI models and products, including agentic work, commerce, and multimodal outputs. Focuses on identifying and mitigating legal risks (product, regulatory, copyright, privacy) and developing strategies for scaling solutions. Requires 10+ years of legal experience, a JD, and a license to practice in CA. | — | 5 |
| Procurement Enablement Lead This role focuses on improving the procurement process at OpenAI by simplifying workflows, enhancing guidance, and supporting scalable procurement experiences. It involves partnering across departments like Finance, Legal, and IT to translate policies into clearer processes and better-enabled systems. A key aspect is identifying opportunities to use AI and automation to streamline workflows and improve service delivery within Procurement operations. | — | 5 |
| Head of GTM Business Operations & Strategy, Safety & Security This role leads GTM business strategy and operations for Security & Safety within OpenAI's GTM organization. It involves shaping how security- and safety-critical products are brought to market, developing operating systems for scaling, defining data retention policies, building go-to-market strategies for cybersecurity models, and translating customer/field needs into product and policy decisions. The role requires strong operational judgment, fluency in safety & security practices, and the ability to build scalable systems and processes. | — | 5 |
| ChatGPT For Work - Early Access Program Program Manager to build and scale the Early Access operating model for ChatGPT for Work, focusing on testing new capabilities with customers, gathering feedback, and ensuring product-market fit and operational readiness for launch. | — | 5 |
| Full-Stack Software Engineer, Applied Foundations Full-Stack Software Engineer for OpenAI's Applications Engineering organization, focusing on building and operating core product and platform layers for products like ChatGPT and Codex. The role involves architecting, building, and improving full-stack systems, ensuring safety, reliability, and security at global scale, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to mitigate adversarial attacks. | Ship | 5 |
| System Software Engineer, First-Party Hardware This role focuses on designing, building, and validating low-level system software for OpenAI's first-party AI hardware. It involves working with BMC, Linux, firmware, and various hardware interfaces to ensure the manageability and health of AI hardware systems. The role also includes owning the acceptance path for partner-delivered software, building automation for testing, and debugging complex issues across hardware and software boundaries. While the hardware is for AI workloads, the role itself is system software engineering, not direct AI model development. | — | 5 |
| Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations Backend Software Engineer role focused on building and operating the core product and platform layers for AI applications like ChatGPT and Codex. The role involves designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and safe backend systems, APIs, and data infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on performance, security, and mitigating adversarial attacks. This is a general backend engineering role within an AI company, not directly building AI models. | — | 5 |
| Account Director, Insurance Account Director focused on Insurance to own executive-level relationships with leading Insurance organizations, helping them safely and effectively deploy OpenAI's technology to accelerate financial data analysis, automate backend operations, drive AI-powered research, and personalize customer engagement. This role blends literacy, technical depth, business acumen, and relationship-driven enterprise sales. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Customs and Trade Lead OpenAI's global import customs strategy and operating model, refining governance for classification, valuation, and country of origin. Shape how AI and agentic workflows are applied to policy-heavy import work, building systems for easier navigation, execution, and scaling. Partner with Engineering, Procurement, and Finance on landed-cost models, lead broker strategy, and build import documentation standards. Establish policies, SOPs, and metrics, and partner with Legal and Tax. Build internal tooling and AI-enabled workflows for triage, document review, knowledge retrieval, and reporting. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Strategic Tax Operations This role is for a Senior Manager in Tax Operations at OpenAI, focusing on building and scaling the tax infrastructure to support complex business operations, strategic transactions, and forecasting. The team is transitioning to an AI-first operating model, aiming to reduce manual work and improve efficiency through data, workflows, and intelligent tooling. The role involves operationalizing technical tax workstreams, building scalable frameworks, and partnering with various teams. While the role will use AI tools, it is not a core AI/ML development role. | — | 5 |
| Supplier Master Data Lead (P2P Systems, Controls & Automation) This role focuses on managing and improving supplier master data within an AI-enabled procurement environment. The goal is to ensure data integrity, enable scalable processes, and support AI-driven workflows, risk management, and automation across procurement and finance operations. The role involves hands-on data management, process improvement, and identifying opportunities for AI adoption to enhance efficiency and controls. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Delivery / CD Software Engineer role focused on building and operating the continuous deployment platform and release pipelines for OpenAI's infrastructure and product code. The role involves designing and implementing systems for safe production rollouts, progressive delivery, and automating operational workflows, with an emphasis on AI-assisted or autonomous deployment capabilities. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, Families Product Manager for OpenAI's Youth Well-Being team, focusing on safe and age-appropriate AI experiences for young people and families. This role involves setting product strategy, identifying user needs, building end-to-end products, defining metrics, and cross-functional partnership. Requires 7+ years of PM experience, preferably in consumer or trust-sensitive products. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, Financial Engineering Product Manager for OpenAI's Financial Engineering team, focusing on scaling billing, payments, and financial infrastructure for AI products. Will build AI-powered tooling for internal teams and define monetization strategies. | — | 5 |
| Product Policy, Cyber Policy Manager OpenAI is seeking a Product Policy Manager specializing in Cyber to guide the development, implementation, and enforcement of policies governing the use of their AI services for cybersecurity applications. This role involves understanding both defensive and offensive cyber operations, translating technical risks into practical policies, and collaborating with various teams to ensure responsible AI deployment. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Finance Lead, Corporate Finance and Capital Strategy This role is for a senior Strategic Finance Lead at OpenAI, focusing on shaping and executing the company's financial strategy for long-term investments and growth priorities. The role involves building financial models, evaluating strategic initiatives, structuring complex initiatives, and translating technical/business inputs into executive recommendations. A key aspect is building an AI-native finance organization by applying AI to finance processes and workflows. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, Premium Subscriptions Product Manager for ChatGPT's consumer subscriptions, focusing on subscriber activation and retention. This role will shape how new premium features and subscription offerings are introduced and monetized, driving user understanding and long-term engagement with AI capabilities. | — | 5 |
| Technical Intelligence Analyst This role focuses on building and maintaining analytical tools, evaluation methodologies, and quality metrics for intelligence workflows within the Strategic Intelligence & Analysis team. The analyst will design and implement lightweight technical solutions to help analysts synthesize raw signals into actionable insights at greater scale, using SQL, Python, and AI-powered tools. The goal is to identify and mitigate abuse and strategic risks to ensure a safe online ecosystem. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Account Director, Quantitative Trading Account Director focused on Quantitative Trading at OpenAI, responsible for executive and technical relationships with leading buy-side investment firms. This is a highly technical enterprise sales role that involves helping firms deploy OpenAI across various functions like research, data analysis, coding, and model evaluation. The role requires navigating regulated environments and understanding technical AI capabilities to translate them into business value. | — | 5 |
| Deployed Product Manager, Codex Product Manager focused on customer adoption and deployment of OpenAI products, acting as a liaison between customers, engineering, and product teams. This role involves identifying expansion opportunities, building relationships with technical and executive stakeholders, and translating customer needs into product feedback. | — | 5 |
| Head of Compute Capital Markets This role is responsible for shaping and driving strategic investment decisions for OpenAI's compute infrastructure, focusing on capital strategy, financing, and external engagement with lenders and investors. It involves translating compute demand into investable frameworks, building durable financing architectures, and optimizing capital structure. The role also supports investment planning, evaluates partnership opportunities, and acts as a bridge between technical infrastructure needs and capital markets language. While the company is AI-focused and the role mentions using AI products, the core function is financial strategy and capital markets for infrastructure, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Productivity - Model Performance Software Engineer focused on improving developer productivity for AI model performance teams, working on systems, tooling, and infrastructure for training and inference workloads. Contributes to CI/CD, testing pipelines, and developer experience. | — | 5 |
| GTM Business Operations & Strategy Lead, Codex This role focuses on driving go-to-market strategy and growth for OpenAI's Codex business, involving product commercialization, customer segmentation, launch success metrics, and commercialization models. It requires strong analytical skills, comfort with technical products, and experience in cross-functional collaboration within a B2B context. | — | 5 |
| GTM Business Operations & Strategy Lead, Platform This role focuses on driving go-to-market strategy and growth for OpenAI's API business. It involves defining growth strategies, commercialization models, launch success metrics, and customer segmentation in partnership with Product, Sales, Data Science, Finance, and Marketing. The role requires strong analytical skills, comfort with technical products and API businesses, and experience in complex cross-functional environments. | — | 5 |
| Program Manager, Human Data The Human Data team at OpenAI is looking for a Program Manager to design and execute programs for collecting high-quality human feedback data. This role involves partnering with research, operations, and engineering teams, managing external vendors and AI trainers, and ensuring the successful completion of data campaigns. The goal is to use this data to train and evaluate AI models, contributing to the development of safe and effective AI systems. | Data | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking Software Engineer focused on improving the developer experience for networking teams at OpenAI, enhancing build systems, test architecture, release pipelines, and overall productivity for engineers working on high-performance networking infrastructure for AI training and inference. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, Self-Serve Business Growth Lead Product Manager to lead self-serve business growth for OpenAI's products like Codex and API, focusing on customer acquisition, adoption, retention, and expansion through product-led experiences. This role requires defining product strategy, identifying growth opportunities, partnering with product teams, and owning growth metrics. | — | 5 |
| Counsel, AI Policy This role focuses on navigating the AI legislative and regulatory landscape, analyzing proposed laws and regulations concerning AI, developing policy positions, and advising internal stakeholders on evolving standards. It requires a legal self-starter with deep experience in technology policy and AI laws. | — | 5 |
| Head of Systems Operations This role leads the System Operations team responsible for internal employee technology experience, focusing on automation, self-service, and AI-enabled workflows to improve efficiency and scalability of identity, endpoint, SaaS, and internal systems. | — | 5 |
| Tokens-as-a-Service (Taas) Software Engineer Software Engineer focused on building systems for Tokens-as-a-Service (TaaS) at OpenAI. This role involves managing infrastructure capacity, performance benchmarking, tokenomics, model porting, and operational monitoring to convert GPU capacity into measurable token throughput for AI workloads. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure This role focuses on building and optimizing the compute infrastructure platform that supports OpenAI's AI research and products. It involves designing, provisioning, scheduling, operating, and optimizing systems that connect various hardware and software components for large-scale AI workloads. The role spans across the entire stack, from low-level systems and high-performance computing to distributed infrastructure, reliability, and developer experience, with a specific mention of agent infrastructure. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| CPU Storage Tech Lead This role focuses on the physical infrastructure for large-scale AI systems, specifically the CPU and storage architecture strategy for compute clusters. It involves evaluating hardware, defining storage systems, and optimizing server platforms for AI training and inference, working closely with hardware vendors and cross-functional teams. | — | 5 |
| Token-as-a-Service Technical Program Manager This role is for a Technical Program Manager focused on delivering external compute capacity for AI model training and inference. The TPM will lead programs to convert third-party infrastructure into usable tokens, managing readiness across compute, storage, networking, and security. They will build integrated plans, drive launch execution, identify bottlenecks, and establish reporting mechanisms. The role requires strong technical fluency, program management skills, and the ability to drive cross-functional execution with internal teams and external partners in a fast-scaling environment. | — | 5 |
| Director, Compute & Infrastructure FP&A This role is for a Director of FP&A focused on Compute & Infrastructure at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is financial planning, forecasting, and strategic guidance for the company's largest cost center, which involves significant AI/ML infrastructure. While the role supports AI development by managing its costs, it is not directly involved in building or researching AI models. | — | 5 |
| Strategy & Operations Lead This role is for a Strategy & Operations Lead within OpenAI's Global GTM Data Science and AI Solutions team. The primary focus is on scaling the impact of AI solutions for go-to-market strategies, partnering with sales, RevOps, and data science teams to identify opportunities, drive initiatives, and operationalize AI-powered tools. The role involves strategic analytics, market intelligence, and execution, translating technical AI capabilities into practical business outcomes and enablement materials for commercial teams. While the role works closely with AI solutions and uses AI tools, it does not involve building or shipping AI models or agents directly, but rather focuses on the operationalization and adoption of AI in a commercial context. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Finance, Compute OpenAI is seeking a Strategic Finance Compute Lead to manage financial strategy and execution for their compute and infrastructure roadmap. This role involves developing financial models, analyzing spend, planning for future compute needs, and partnering with engineering teams to optimize capacity investments and drive strategic decisions. The ideal candidate has experience in strategic finance, financial modeling, and a strong understanding of cloud technology and compute infrastructure. | — | 5 |