OpenAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2015
- Size
- 5,000+
- Website
- openai.com
- Blog
- openai.com
Products
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.
AI Frontier · AI lab
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative UX Researcher This role focuses on quantitative user experience research to inform product decisions at OpenAI. The researcher will design and execute studies, analyze behavioral data, and translate findings into actionable recommendations. While the company develops AI, this role's core craft is UX research, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Product Marketing Lead, Advertising Product Marketing Lead for Advertising at OpenAI, focusing on shaping and scaling advertising products and go-to-market strategy. This role involves market assessment, customer discovery, translating insights into product requirements, defining success metrics, owning launch strategy, and building narratives to explain value. Requires strong problem-solving, understanding of the advertising ecosystem, and experience marketing data/AI products. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering Software Engineer on the Identity Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for creating, deploying, and operating foundational security tools and infrastructure to protect OpenAI's model weights, customer data, and critical systems across multiple cloud environments. The role involves building IAM platform features, multi-cloud security architectures, and automation tooling to support AI research and product development. |
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| 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Private Equity Solutions Engineer role focused on Private Equity customers, partnering with them to understand needs, guide AI strategy, identify use cases, and demonstrate business value from OpenAI's products. This involves technical advisory, architectural recommendations, and acting as a liaison between customers and internal teams. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Core Enterprise This role is a Solutions Engineer focused on partnering with enterprise customers to ensure they achieve business value from OpenAI's products. The role involves pre-sales technical expertise, guiding AI strategy, identifying use cases, demonstrating value, recommending architecture patterns, and fostering customer relationships. It also includes gathering customer feedback for product planning and handling initial security/compliance questions. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Core Digital Native Solutions Engineer role focused on partnering with Digital Native customers to ensure they achieve tangible business value from OpenAI's models. This involves understanding pre-sales needs, guiding AI strategy, identifying use cases, demonstrating value, recommending architectural patterns, and gathering customer feedback for product planning. The role also involves handling initial security and compliance questions. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Core Digital Natives Solutions Engineer role focused on partnering with Digital Native customers to ensure they achieve tangible business value from OpenAI's models. This involves understanding pre-sales needs, guiding AI strategy, identifying use cases, demonstrating value, recommending architectural patterns, and fostering customer relationships. The role also involves creating documentation and relaying customer feedback internally. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Financial Services Solutions Engineer for Financial Services at OpenAI, focusing on helping large enterprise clients achieve business value from OpenAI's models through technical expertise, strategic guidance, and architectural recommendations. This role involves pre-sales, customer relationship management, and acting as a liaison between customers and internal teams. | — | 5 |
| Frontend Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering Frontend Engineer responsible for building and shipping high-quality product experiences across ChatGPT's web surfaces. This role involves partnering with design and product teams, owning frontend architecture decisions, and improving reliability and observability. The engineer will collaborate with backend and data teams to integrate APIs and deliver end-to-end features, contributing to the long-term technical direction. | — | 5 |
| ASIC Firmware Engineer, Modeling This role focuses on developing firmware and modeling software for AI accelerators, including designing drivers, functional models, and low-latency embedded software. It involves HW/SW co-design and debugging on new platforms, with a focus on performance for AI workloads. | — | 5 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, Growth Fullstack engineer to join the ChatGPT Growth team, focusing on projects to amplify the user base of ChatGPT and Plus Subscribers. Responsibilities include optimizing account access, notifications, SEO, fostering value discovery, and virality. The role involves data analysis, product ideation, experimentation, and deploying backend APIs. | — | 5 |
| Backend Software Engineer, Growth Backend Software Engineer for the ChatGPT Growth team, focusing on projects to amplify ChatGPT's user base and subscriber growth. Responsibilities include optimizing account access, notifications, SEO, value discovery, and virality, driven by data analysis, product ideation, and experimentation. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Manager - San Francisco This role focuses on post-sales technical enablement and adoption of OpenAI's AI products (ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, Agents, API) for enterprise customers. The AI Deployment Manager designs and delivers training, workshops, and adoption programs to help customers effectively use and derive business value from AI capabilities, ensuring reliable and scalable deployment. | Ship | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Detection and Response Security Engineer focused on building and operating systems for detecting suspicious activity and responding to security incidents across OpenAI's infrastructure, products, and research environments. The role involves engineering detection pipelines, automating response, and partnering with other teams to ensure security requirements are met. A key aspect is evaluating and responding to emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab, including strategies for agents operating at scale. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales This is a pre-sales Solutions Engineer role focused on helping enterprise customers understand and implement OpenAI's products (ChatGPT and API) to achieve business value. The role involves technical advisory, demonstrating solutions, recommending architecture, and building customer relationships, with a focus on generative AI applications. | — | 5 |
| Frontend Engineer, Financial Web Platform Frontend Engineer for OpenAI's Financial Web Platform, focusing on building scalable UI components and patterns for billing use cases, partnering with backend engineers, and creating AI-powered features for billing workflows and platform tooling. The role involves defining frontend architecture and collaborating with various partners to translate requirements into interfaces. | — | 5 |
| iOS Engineer, Applied Foundations Senior iOS Engineer on the Applied Foundations team at OpenAI, responsible for building and maintaining core mobile experiences that power user interactions with OpenAI's products. This includes features related to account management, family features, payments, and safety, as well as developing reusable iOS foundations for other product teams. The role emphasizes creating high-quality, reliable, and secure products at global scale. | — | 5 |
| Fullstack Engineer, Safety Engineering Fullstack Engineer to build internal tools and external products for AI safety systems, improving model safety and reliability. Focuses on end-to-end development, partnering with researchers and policy creators, and optimizing applications for usability and scale. | Ship | 5 |
| Full Stack Engineer, Health AI Full Stack Engineer for OpenAI's Health AI team, focusing on building and scaling AI-powered products for consumers and care providers globally. The role involves end-to-end feature development, data pipeline management, and integrating AI safety features into production systems, with a strong emphasis on privacy, security, and compliance in the healthcare domain. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Monetization Product & Platform Software Engineer to build core monetization and ads systems at OpenAI. This foundational role is responsible for designing and implementing the infrastructure, APIs, and user-facing experiences that will power OpenAI’s next-generation monetization products, including ads. You will work across the full technical stack to architect, build, and ship 0→1 systems that are robust, safe, and scalable. You will collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and Research to define the future of monetized AI experiences and ensure these systems meet OpenAI’s highest standards for safety, privacy, and policy alignment. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC Software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI's APIs to solve real customer problems. This role involves embedding with customers, designing and developing full-stack solutions, and collaborating with internal teams. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Monetization Delivery Software Engineer to build core infrastructure for OpenAI's monetization and ads systems, focusing on reliability, performance, privacy, and large-scale operation. This role involves architecting and implementing distributed systems for ads creation, delivery, measurement, and optimization, enabling both internal and external teams to build on safe, scalable, and robust monetization primitives. | — | 5 |
| Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Systems Mechanical Engineer with 7+ years of experience in IT hardware design (chip/package to system levels) for AI supercomputers. Responsibilities include leading mechanical design, optimizing thermal solutions, performing analysis and validation, and ensuring reliability and efficiency of mission-critical hardware in data center environments. Collaborates with cross-functional teams (thermal, electrical, software, systems engineering) and suppliers. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Insider Threat Detection & Response Security Engineer focused on insider threat detection and response, innovating on detection infrastructure, developing detection rules, and driving projects related to insider threats within AI infrastructure. The role also involves partnering with cross-functional teams and using AI to enhance security posture. | Serve | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Fleet Management Software Engineer focused on building and managing large-scale cloud and bare-metal compute fleets, including hardware, configurations, and vendor interactions. The role involves developing tools for cluster management, integrating hardware metrics with scheduling, automating infrastructure processes, and leveraging LLMs for vendor coordination and workflow optimization. This position supports OpenAI's AI research and product development by ensuring the reliability and efficiency of the underlying computing environment. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack, Revenue Platform Software Engineer, Full Stack, Revenue Platform at OpenAI. This role focuses on building and operating the core financial infrastructure for OpenAI's commercial products, including invoicing, billing, payments, and revenue recognition. The engineer will own end-to-end workflows, develop platform abstractions, and create internal tools for finance, sales, and operations teams. A key aspect is building automation and AI-powered capabilities within the platform to improve operational efficiency and decision-making. The role requires strong full-stack experience and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, ensuring reliability, scalability, and correctness of critical financial systems. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF This role focuses on partnering with customers to build and deploy custom software solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs. The Forward Deployed Software Engineer will embed with clients, design and develop full-stack solutions, and act as a technical advisor to drive projects to completion. The role involves collaboration with internal teams (Sales, Research, Applied Product/Engineering) and contributing to internal knowledge bases. | — | 5 |
| Support Systems Architect This role focuses on building and iterating on tooling, data flows, and processes to support a customer operations team at scale. It involves designing automated workflows, implementing LLM-powered automation, codifying incident detection and response, standing up data pipelines for insights, and identifying/solving risks during tooling rollouts. The goal is to redefine modern support organization through resilient systems and automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Reliability Software Engineer focused on reliability for OpenAI's AI systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and stability of infrastructure. This role involves building tools for load/chaos/synthetic testing, automation, resource lifecycle management, and implementing fault-tolerant designs. The engineer will also define SLOs/SLIs, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with research and product teams to bring AI technology to users safely and reliably. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security Security Engineer focused on protecting the infrastructure that supports AI models, including GPU clusters, cloud environments, and data storage. The role involves designing and building security controls, collaborating with engineering teams, and addressing high-impact security projects for AI workloads. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security at OpenAI. This role focuses on safeguarding OpenAI's core research and production environments, including GPU supercomputing clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, and critical services. The engineer will design and implement production-grade security services like authentication systems, proxies, and key management platforms, ensuring high reliability and scalability. Responsibilities include partnering with engineers to embed security in compute clusters, developing automation for risk mitigation, and leading initiatives for AI workloads. Requires strong software engineering skills, experience in critical security infrastructure, cloud security expertise, and familiarity with container orchestration and modern authentication standards. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Financial Engineering Data Scientist on the Financial Engineering team at OpenAI, focusing on analytics and experimentation for checkout, payments, subscriptions, and pricing systems to improve revenue and customer experience. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Research Developer Productivity Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining systems for developer productivity, including CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and build systems, to support research and engineering at OpenAI. The role emphasizes improving the development experience for engineers and scientists working with Python, Rust, and C++ in large monorepos. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Research Software Engineer focused on building and scaling the dataset infrastructure for LLM training and inference, including multimodal data, at OpenAI. | Data | 5 |
| Reliability/DFX Engineer OpenAI's Hardware organization is seeking a cross-stack engineer to make ML systems reliable at scale. This role will work closely with chip design, platform design, and hardware health teams to architect, implement, and deploy reliable next-generation AI accelerator systems. Responsibilities include overseeing DFX architecture, building system-level reliability models, collaborating on DFX features, and partnering with hardware health teams for continuous improvement. Requires deep expertise in reliability across the chip/platform stack, ML chip/platform architecture, and ML workload characteristics. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product Technical Program Manager at OpenAI responsible for driving the execution of large-scale product and platform initiatives across ChatGPT, API, and related surfaces. This role involves translating product vision into actionable plans, shaping interfaces, and ensuring successful delivery across various layers. The TPM will collaborate deeply with product, engineering, and design teams, manage timelines, dependencies, risks, and influence architectural decisions. The role also involves understanding full-stack systems, coordinating stakeholders, and leveraging AI-powered internal tooling for tracking and optimization. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in technical program management, strong technical acumen, product sense, and excellent execution discipline. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales This role focuses on pre-sales technical support for OpenAI's products like ChatGPT and the API, helping customers understand and implement solutions to achieve business value. It involves demonstrating product capabilities, recommending architectures, and building customer relationships. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining the core cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, deployment, networking, cloud abstractions) that supports OpenAI's products like ChatGPT and the API, ensuring reliability and scalability for future growth. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack (People Innovation) Software Engineer, Full Stack role focused on building internal HR, culture, and recruiting products using AI/LLMs. The role involves owning the full product lifecycle, collaborating with stakeholders, and working with the research team to apply their models. While AI/ML is used, direct experience is not required, suggesting it's more about applying existing AI tools to HR domains. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Privacy Software Engineer focused on building secure backend systems for privacy and security functions within OpenAI's API products and consumer applications. Responsibilities include threat modeling, privacy design reviews, collaborating with product and legal teams, and participating in incident response. The role emphasizes experience in production systems, security projects, and regulatory compliance. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Infrastructure Data Scientist on the Infra team responsible for scaling the infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s products and research. This involves defining foundational datasets, developing metrics, building forecasting and optimization models, and establishing dashboards to improve infra usage and efficiency. | Serve | 5 |
| Developer Experience Engineer This role focuses on creating developer experiences, tools, and content to help developers integrate OpenAI's AI models (like Codex, GPT-5.5, GPT-Image-2) into their applications. It involves building demos, writing tutorials, engaging with the developer community, and gathering feedback to improve products. While it uses AI models, the core craft is developer enablement, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Software Engineer role focused on improving developer productivity and building foundational systems for engineers at OpenAI, utilizing AI tools to enhance workflows and collaborating with product teams. | — | 5 |
| Product Designer, ChatGPT Product Designer for ChatGPT team at OpenAI, focusing on user experience, UI, and interaction design for AI-first consumer and business products. Collaborates with engineering, product management, and AI research to define product strategy and tactics, and contributes to the design system and culture. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure Software Engineer role focused on building and operating infrastructure systems for a large GPU fleet, supporting AI model training and deployment. Responsibilities include scheduling, cluster management, and deployment systems, with a bonus for understanding AI/ML workloads. | — | 5 |
| Full-Stack SWE, Data Acquisition (Foundations) Full-Stack Engineer role focused on building and optimizing interfaces and tools for data acquisition to support model training operations. Responsibilities include developing full-stack applications, APIs, and dashboards, collaborating with data processing and scaling teams, and deploying infrastructure. Requires experience in full-stack development, frontend/backend technologies, APIs, databases, and cloud platforms. | — | 5 |
| Full Stack Engineer, Fleet Scheduling Full Stack Engineer to build and operate web-based systems for managing AI workloads on supercomputing clusters, focusing on researcher productivity and system transparency. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Product Data Scientist on the Applied Product team at OpenAI, focusing on data-driven product development for consumer and enterprise products. Responsibilities include defining north-star metrics, designing A/B tests, establishing dashboards, and embedding with product teams to improve products and drive growth. Requires experience in quantitative roles, experiment design, and metric definition, with a preference for NLP/LLM/generative AI experience. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being Software Engineer focused on building foundational systems for youth and family-facing AI experiences, ensuring safety, age-appropriateness, and regulatory compliance. This role involves architecting identity primitives, age assurance pipelines, and guardian tools within OpenAI's product surface area. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and operating data infrastructure that supports massive compute fleets and storage systems, designed for high performance and scalability. This role involves designing, building, and operating the next generation of data infrastructure at OpenAI, scaling and hardening big data compute and storage platforms, building and supporting high-throughput streaming systems, building and operating low latency data ingestions, enabling secure and governed data access for ML and analytics, and designing for reliability and performance at extreme scale. | Serve | 5 |