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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
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| Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure Software Engineer role focused on building and operating infrastructure platforms for ChatGPT, enabling fast iteration, performance, and reliability. The role involves designing shared systems, data paths, rollout mechanisms, and reliability guardrails, with a focus on platform building rather than support. Key areas include platform foundations, scalability, reliability guardrails, developer productivity, observability, safe change management, and interface design. | — | 5 |
| Workload Porting & Performance Engineer This role focuses on evaluating new hardware platforms by porting and analyzing performance of benchmarks and real-world workloads, identifying system bottlenecks, and adapting workloads to utilize hardware capabilities. It involves debugging across hardware and software boundaries, with a preference for experience in AI/ML workloads. | — | 5 |
| Hardware Architecture Expert - 3P |
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| 5 |
| 3P Architect This role focuses on defining and driving rack- and cluster-level reference designs for AI infrastructure in collaboration with external partners. It involves translating workload requirements into concrete architectures, aligning partners on design attributes, and ensuring vendor roadmaps meet infrastructure needs. The role requires strong system intuition, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to operate across internal teams and external ecosystems. | — | 5 |
| Performance Modeling Engineer ~2 This role focuses on developing and applying performance modeling frameworks to understand system behavior, quantify tradeoffs, and support next-generation infrastructure design for AI workloads. The engineer will analyze system behavior, run simulations, and evaluate tradeoffs across compute, memory, networking, and storage, contributing to building modeling frameworks and gaining expertise in system architecture and AI infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Performance Modeling Engineer Develop and apply performance modeling tools to evaluate AI system performance and inform architectural decisions for AI infrastructure. This role involves analyzing system behavior, running simulations, and quantifying tradeoffs across compute, memory, networking, and storage. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration | Consumer Devices Software Engineer focused on building and improving CI/CD systems, developer workflows, and internal platform capabilities to enhance engineering velocity, reduce toil, and increase software quality for consumer devices and cloud services. The role involves designing and operating robust CI/CD pipelines, making pragmatic architectural decisions, and utilizing AI-native tooling to improve engineering workflows and output quality. Experience with secure software delivery practices and adapting technical decisions to organizational maturity is required. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, API Infrastructure Product Manager for OpenAI's API infrastructure, focusing on data processing, data privacy, billing, and access controls. The role involves defining strategy and executing projects to ensure secure, private, and enterprise-grade usage of OpenAI products, partnering with engineering, security, legal, compliance, and finance. | — | 5 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, OpenAI Edu Full Stack Software Engineer for OpenAI's Education team, focusing on building and shipping AI-powered educational products from scratch. The role involves end-to-end development, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and shaping the engineering foundation for a new product area. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager, Robotics Data Acquisition This role is for a Technical Program Manager focused on scaling the systems for robotic data acquisition (DAQ) for model training and evaluation. It involves integrating hardware, software, and operations to ensure high-quality data production for robotics development. | DataEval Gate | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Security Observability Software Engineer focused on building secure, scalable systems for security observability infrastructure, enhancing security and detection capabilities. This role involves designing and developing software systems, building data pipelines for security data, and collaborating with security teams to reduce risk. It also includes contributing to data engineering for investigations and compliance. | — | 5 |
| Product Design Manager Product Design Manager at OpenAI to lead products that are easy to use, beautiful, and push the boundaries of what's possible. This role will shape product direction and design culture, collaborating with product designers and cross-functional partners to craft Foundational experiences for enterprise and consumer users. The manager will lead design for Payments, Identity & Access, and developer/research tools, setting a high bar for design quality and fostering a strong culture of craft, ownership, and performance. | — | 5 |
| Workday Engineer Workday Engineer to design, build, and operate systems powering HR workflows at OpenAI. This role requires strong Workday expertise combined with engineering fluency to build integrations, improve system architecture, automate workflows, and connect Workday to internal tools, external platforms, and AI-driven systems. The engineer will use modern developer workflows, including Git and CLI-driven tooling, and partner with cross-functional teams. | — | 5 |
| Product Operations Manager This role is for a Product Operations Manager within OpenAI's Applied AI organization. The primary focus is on providing operational expertise to product teams, streamlining org operations, and automating information channels to facilitate collaboration. Responsibilities include managing alpha/beta/GA programs, owning the launch calendar, synthesizing user feedback, coordinating high-impact product moments, and building internal tools/automations. The role requires experience in Product Operations at scaling tech companies and familiarity with AI tools and concepts. | — | 5 |
| Head of People Science and Operations This role leads the People Science and Operations function, focusing on data science, analytics, process design, and service delivery to improve employee experience and organizational effectiveness. It involves partnering with various teams to apply OpenAI's technology internally for automation and system improvements, establishing operational models, overseeing people analytics and experimentation, and ensuring data reliability and governance. The role also emphasizes building high-performing teams and defining success metrics for operational quality and business impact. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Host Assurance Security Engineer focused on building and operating the Host Assurance platform for bare-metal infrastructure. This role establishes trust in hardware platforms before they run workloads, involving machine identity, attestation, and hardware/firmware validation, ensuring secure and scalable compute foundations. | — | 5 |
| Product Designer, People Innovation Labs Product Designer for internal People-focused AI products at OpenAI, focusing on recruiting and talent management. This role involves designing and shipping software products, partnering with engineering and AI research, and contributing to the design system and culture. The ideal candidate has experience shipping software, strong UX/UI skills, and an interest in AI-first product design. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Manager - Core Ecosystem, EDU This role focuses on post-sales enablement and adoption services for educational institutions using OpenAI products like ChatGPT Enterprise and Agents. The manager will design and deliver workshops, training, and adoption interventions to help customers understand and apply AI capabilities effectively in real-world workflows, driving sustained usage and measurable impact. The role requires strong product fluency, instructional design, and customer advisory skills. | — | 5 |
| Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security This role focuses on securing the infrastructure that supports AI models and research, including GPU clusters, cloud environments, and data storage. It involves designing and building security controls, leading cross-functional programs, and performing threat modeling. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Manager - Pilots - San Francisco Customer-facing role responsible for leading enterprise AI pilots, from scoping to executive readout, to help customers evaluate OpenAI's products, identify use cases, and generate signals tied to business value. Focuses on driving activation, sustained usage, and measurable impact. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, B2B Engineering Principal Software Engineer to design and scale backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure for OpenAI's developer and enterprise-facing AI products. Focus on distributed systems, data pipelines, security, compliance, and reliability for global scale. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Manager - Pilots - NYC Customer-facing role responsible for leading enterprise AI pilots, from scoping to executive readout, to help customers evaluate OpenAI's products, identify use cases, and generate signals tied to business value. Drives activation, sustained usage, and measurable impact across products like ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex. | — | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Premium Engineering Manager for the Growth team at OpenAI, focused on expanding the reach and impact of AI products like ChatGPT. Responsibilities include leading a team, driving user growth and subscriptions, improving retention and engagement, running data-driven experiments, and leveraging AI-powered insights for personalized user experiences. Requires 5+ years of engineering management experience and expertise in backend, frontend, or full-stack development, with a track record in growth-oriented features, subscription models, and experimentation. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Localization Software Engineer to build and scale OpenAI's localization, content, and experimentation platform. This includes developing AI-powered translation pipelines with human review, designing systems for localized content delivery, building tools for linguists, and developing developer tooling for localization workflows. The role also involves building internationalization libraries for handling numbers, currencies, dates, and multilingual interfaces. | — | 5 |
| Program Manager, Alignment Program Manager to support OpenAI's alignment and safety ecosystem work through program execution, relationship management, and operational ownership. This role will work closely with alignment leadership to run external-facing programs and partnerships, improve coordination across collaborators, and provide leverage on recurring operational needs in a fast-moving research environment. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Statsig team responsible for building and scaling the core experimentation, rollout, and analytics infrastructure at OpenAI. This role focuses on low-latency distributed systems, high-throughput data ingestion, and large-scale analytics to support product development and model performance monitoring. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Product Senior Software Engineer on the Statsig team responsible for designing and building the core experimentation, rollout, and analytics infrastructure that powers OpenAI's product development stack. This role focuses on enabling teams to safely launch features, run experiments, and understand product/model changes at scale, sitting at the intersection of product engineering and platform infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems Engineering Manager for OpenAI's Online Data team, responsible for building and operating core online database and indexing services for production AI applications like ChatGPT and Codex. Focuses on hyperscale data storage and retrieval technology, distributed query execution, multi-region federation, and performance optimization. | — | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer, Government - Washington, D.C. AI Support Engineer role focused on supporting public sector customers, troubleshooting complex issues, and leveraging AI capabilities to improve internal tooling and operations. The role involves direct customer interaction, partnership with internal teams, and contributing to the scaling of support operations. | Ship | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager, Safety Systems Engineering This role is for a Technical Program Manager on the Safety Systems team at OpenAI. The TPM will be responsible for streamlining the safety stack and integration of safety research and mitigations into ChatGPT and the API. Key responsibilities include managing risk areas, stakeholders, data and compute infrastructure, and internal programs like incident management. The role requires strong technical program management skills, experience with complex technical projects, and knowledge of content integrity and AGI safety. | — | 5 |
| Abuse Investigator This role focuses on investigating and mitigating malicious uses and activities on OpenAI's platform, particularly concerning violent attacks, terrorism, and other harmful behaviors. The investigator will develop abuse signals, improve operational workflows, and work with technical teams to enhance data and tooling. The role involves responding to time-sensitive escalations, supporting on-call duties, and communicating findings to stakeholders. While the company is AI-focused, this specific role is centered on abuse investigation and policy enforcement, rather than direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 5 |
| Abuse Investigator - Child Safety This role focuses on investigating and disrupting child exploitation actors using OpenAI's products. It involves analyzing user behavior, developing detection strategies, and supporting enforcement actions. While the role uses AI tools and collaborates with engineering teams to improve tooling, its core function is not building or researching AI models, but rather investigating misuse and ensuring product safety. The role requires domain expertise in online child safety and technical fluency in data analysis tools. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle Software engineers to build custom software leveraging OpenAI's APIs to solve customer problems, working with customers and internal teams to design and implement scalable solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| Product Engagement Specialist This role focuses on coordinating product launches, building scalable systems for launch execution and feedback, and implementing automation for manual processes. It involves collaborating cross-functionally and reporting on readiness and feedback performance. While the role mentions LLM-enabled workflows, its core function is product operations and systems building, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Counsel, Product (Research) This role is for a Product Counsel focusing on AI research at OpenAI. The individual will partner with researchers and engineers to address legal risks and develop strategies for AI model development and deployment, focusing on copyright, regulatory, privacy, and other legal issues. The role requires a JD and 5+ years of experience in technology law, with a strong emphasis on copyright and practical, principled problem-solving. | — | 5 |
| Hardware Tools Engineer Develop and evolve the tooling ecosystem for hardware engineers at an AI company, focusing on compilers, IR transformations, simulation, debugging, and automation infrastructure for AI-native silicon. | — | 5 |
| iOS Engineer, ChatGPT Mobile Infrastructure OpenAI is seeking Staff+ iOS engineers to build and evolve the core Swift platform infrastructure for their AI products like ChatGPT, Atlas, and Sora. The role focuses on improving performance, reliability, and developer velocity through foundational frameworks, internal tooling, and automation, enabling other engineers to develop new capabilities faster. This is a platform engineering role supporting AI development. | — | 5 |
| Android Engineer, ChatGPT Mobile Infrastructure Staff+ Android Engineer focused on building the core Kotlin-based platform infrastructure for ChatGPT, Sora, and other Android apps. The role involves enhancing app performance, reliability, and developer velocity, with a focus on AI developer productivity and internal tooling. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Business This role is for a Data Scientist on the Business Data Science team at OpenAI, focusing on customer success for business products like ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and API. The role involves identifying opportunities for customer activation, onboarding, and engagement, measuring intervention efficacy, and building self-serve tools for stakeholders. It requires expertise in statistics, causal inference, Python/R, SQL, and BI tools, with a focus on driving business growth and optimizing performance. | — | 5 |
| Trust & Safety Operations Analyst, Ads This role focuses on building and scaling Trust & Safety Operations for OpenAI's Ads product. It involves designing and implementing operational workflows, enforcement processes, and tooling to ensure the safe and sustainable growth of advertising, leveraging AI-first solutions and AI models/agent-based tooling. The role requires partnering with various teams to translate risk and policy requirements into scalable systems and automation, and using data to identify trends and risks. | — | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer - San Francisco This role is for an AI Support Engineer on the User Operations team at OpenAI. The primary focus is on providing exceptional customer support and technical guidance to customers adopting OpenAI's AI products. The role involves troubleshooting complex issues, improving internal tooling using AI capabilities and scripting, and contributing to the scaling of support operations. While the role uses AI tools and supports AI products, it is not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Marketing Innovation This role focuses on building and measuring internal tools and agentic systems for marketing and customer service. The Data Scientist will define success metrics, design experimentation frameworks, instrument and evaluate launches, and translate signals into actionable decisions to drive business outcomes. | Agent | 5 |
| Platform Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Engineering Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Platform team at OpenAI. This role focuses on scaling the FDE organization's impact by embedding with customer pods to architect, shape, refactor, and build solutions. The manager will lead a team to translate customer signal into durable platform bets and reusable capabilities, partnering with B2B Platform teams and ensuring high engineering standards. The role requires strong product judgment, leadership, and cross-functional execution. | — | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer, Government - San Francisco AI Support Engineer role focused on supporting public sector customers, including U.S. Government agencies with FedRAMP requirements. The role involves troubleshooting complex issues, providing technical guidance, and leveraging AI capabilities to improve internal tooling and automate processes. This position is crucial for scaling the support organization and ensuring customer success with OpenAI's AI products. | Ship | 5 |
| Product Manufacturing Engineer This role focuses on product manufacturing engineering for AI supercomputers, specifically concerning PCB and PCBA manufacturing and process. The engineer will drive technical initiatives from concept to mass production, working with design, operations, vendors, and partners to ensure product success, quality, and timely delivery. Responsibilities include leading NPI processes, providing hands-on analysis, researching automation, and managing manufacturing development for hardware products. | — | 5 |
| Senior Support Engineer - San Francisco This role focuses on providing technical support and guidance to enterprise customers using OpenAI's API platform. The Senior Support Engineer will be responsible for resolving complex issues, designing operational processes for monitoring and incident response, and leveraging AI technologies to scale support operations. The role acts as a last line of defense before the core engineering team and requires strong troubleshooting, monitoring, and incident management skills. | — | 5 |
| Global Detection and Response Lead Lead and scale OpenAI’s cybersecurity detection and response operations, setting strategy and driving execution for security monitoring, incident response, recovery, and post-incident improvements across global infrastructure. This role involves building and mentoring teams, partnering with various engineering and product teams, and evaluating/responding to emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab environment, including detection and response strategies for agents. The role also emphasizes leveraging AI models to solve security problems. | — | 5 |
| Frontend Software Engineer, Codex App Frontend Software Engineer to build and maintain the Codex desktop app and IDE extension, focusing on the interface for interacting with AI agents and making AI feel like a software engineering teammate within real workflows. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Codex App Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving the systems for the Codex desktop app and IDE extension. This is a full-stack role owning flows from UI to backend layers and integration with Rust services, with a strong emphasis on product-mindedness, reliability, and observability. | — | 5 |
| Strategy & Operations, Support This role is a Strategy & Operations position within the User Operations team at OpenAI. The primary focus is on driving strategic and operational initiatives to scale, mature, and optimize customer support. While the role involves leveraging AI/LLMs and working with product/engineering teams on automation and optimization, the core function is operational strategy and execution, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. The role aims to enhance customer experience and operational excellence in support. | — | 5 |