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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| IT Controls Data Engineer This role focuses on building data infrastructure for IT controls, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring within OpenAI's IT and Security organization. It involves designing and maintaining data pipelines, datasets, models, and validation logic to ensure security and IT controls are measurable, repeatable, and defensible, particularly for SOX compliance. The role requires strong data engineering skills, experience with enterprise system data, and the ability to translate technical details for auditors. | — | 0 |
| Application Engineer, Supply Chain Technology Senior Application Engineer for OpenAI's Supply Chain Technology team, focusing on designing, implementing, and evolving global supply chain systems, primarily using Oracle Fusion SCM. This role involves deep expertise in Oracle Cloud SCM modules, solution architecture, configuration, customization, scripting, and integration with broader supply chain ecosystems. The engineer will partner with various internal teams and external partners to enable scalable, auditable, and resilient processes, acting as the primary Oracle point of contact for other engineers. |
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| Facilities Operations Manager This role is for a Facilities Operations Manager responsible for the commissioning, operational readiness, and long-term operation of next-generation AI data center campuses. The role involves managing day-to-day operations of critical facility infrastructure, developing operating procedures, leading incident response, and ensuring compliance with safety and operational standards. While the role supports AI infrastructure, the core craft is facilities operations, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Head of Data Center Rack and Cluster This role leads an engineering team responsible for defining rack and system architectures for OpenAI's compute infrastructure, focusing on the early phases of compute definition and delivery of production-ready racks. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in system bring-up and bringing platforms to a stable, production-ready state. | — | 0 |
| Senior Counsel, Employment (AI Enablement) This role is for a Senior Counsel, Employment at OpenAI, focusing on AI enablement and automation. The lawyer will provide advice on employment legal matters, work cross-functionally with the People Team, support strategic initiatives for legal training, and develop processes for scaling legal support. The role requires 8+ years of legal experience, a JD, and expertise in AI-related employment laws and federal/state labor laws. | — | 0 |
| Actuator Design Engineer Seeking a Senior Actuator Design and Integration Engineer to lead the development of custom electromechanical actuators for advanced robotic systems. This role involves owning actuator development from concept to prototype validation and system integration, partnering with cross-functional teams. The focus is on precision electromechanical systems, including motors, transmissions, sensing, and thermal architectures, driving development across the full engineering lifecycle and establishing scalable design, test, and integration practices. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer, Robotics This role is for an Electrical Engineer focused on developing the next generation of robotic systems at OpenAI, spanning the full lifecycle of hardware development from concept to deployment. The engineer will own electrical architecture, design and implement electronics, build and validate hardware in integrated systems, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver system-level solutions. | — | 0 |
| US Payroll Operations This role is for a US Payroll Operations expert at OpenAI, responsible for processing biweekly payroll for 5,000+ employees, ensuring compliance with regulations, managing outsourced partners, and driving continuous process improvement through automation and AI-enabled solutions. The role requires strong knowledge of US payroll regulations and experience with Workday Payroll. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager - IT Operations Program Manager to help scale IT operations at OpenAI, leading cross-functional programs to improve operational maturity, streamline team collaboration, and build durable operational capabilities. The role focuses on improving scalability, consistency, and operational excellence across various IT support functions and partnering with technical teams to ensure operational readiness for new deployments and infrastructure investments. | — | 0 |
| Workplace Business Partner This role is for a Workplace Business Partner at OpenAI, focusing on employee engagement and operational collaboration within the Real Estate & Workplace team. The position involves managing workplace programs, communicating updates, designing initiatives to strengthen company culture, and partnering with cross-functional teams to support specific organizations. The role requires strong people skills, adaptability, and a comprehensive understanding of the workplace ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| HR Business Partner HR Business Partner role at OpenAI, focusing on partnering with leaders to navigate organizational and talent decisions, coach leaders, and build operating rhythms to enable scale. The role aims to improve decision quality, strengthen leadership capability, and increase organizational effectiveness. It involves strategic advising and hands-on support, including shaping high-performing teams, evolving people programs, guiding managers, and leading change. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager, Rack Delivery This role is a Technical Program Manager focused on the physical infrastructure (rack delivery) for AI training and inference platforms. It involves managing manufacturing partners, site readiness, and deployment coordination, translating strategic plans into schedules, and developing operational mechanisms. The role operates at the intersection of data center infrastructure, hardware manufacturing, supply chain, and deployment operations. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Sourcing Leader, Go-to-Market This role is for a Strategic Sourcing Leader focused on Go-to-Market (GTM) activities at OpenAI. The leader will develop and execute sourcing strategies for media, creative, production, influencer, agency, sponsorship, analytics, communications, and event suppliers. They will manage a team, negotiate commercial agreements, partner with cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure compliance and cost optimization. The role requires extensive experience in procurement, particularly within marketing and GTM functions, and strong leadership and negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Compensation Analyst, Equity & Executive Compensation This role supports pay design and analytical projects for compensation programs, including equity and executive compensation, through quantitative analysis, modeling, benchmarking, and reporting. It involves partnering with Finance, Legal, and People leaders to inform compensation design, pay recommendations, budgets, and forecasts. | — | 0 |
| Startup Field Marketer This role focuses on executing and scaling OpenAI's startup field marketing programs, bringing high-impact founder experiences to life across owned events and technical community moments. The goal is to drive awareness, engagement, and usage for OpenAI's products and platform amongst core audiences, ensuring startups discover, adopt, and build with OpenAI. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise 3P Field Events Lead This role is for an Enterprise 3P Field Events Lead at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is to manage and scale third-party field events for the enterprise segment, aligning them with sales priorities, industry strategies, and partner goals. The role involves building planning processes, defining event goals, managing sponsorships, budgets, vendor relationships, and creating scalable playbooks. It also requires partnering with various teams like Sales, Product Marketing, Comms, and Marketing Operations to ensure cohesive messaging and measure event performance and impact on pipeline and account engagement. While the company is in AI, this specific role focuses on the marketing and operational aspects of events, not the direct development or deployment of AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Customer Marketing Manager, SMB Customer Marketing Manager for SMB at OpenAI, focused on building the customer proof engine for ChatGPT Business. This role involves sourcing and packaging customer stories, quotes, stats, and demos to drive awareness, conversion, and adoption. Requires strong customer empathy, campaign execution, writing, and project management skills, with experience marketing to SMB audiences. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Financial Reporting This role is for a Senior Manager, Financial Reporting at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is to build and run a financial reporting engine, ensuring accurate and timely financial information. The role involves modernizing reporting workflows through AI integration, owning financial statements and disclosures, driving audit readiness, and partnering cross-functionally. It requires strong technical judgment, a hands-on approach, and excellent communication skills. Experience with financial reporting systems and a CPA license are essential. The role is based in San Francisco and operates on a hybrid work model. | — | 0 |
| GTM Readiness & Activation This role is responsible for driving the activation of key go-to-market (GTM) priorities across sales and customer-facing teams at OpenAI. It involves translating company and GTM strategy into clear, repeatable execution, designing and running programs to help teams adopt new selling motions, operationalize launches, and drive measurable impact. The role also involves creating and shipping field-ready content experiences and AI-native workflows, and ensuring GTM initiatives translate into measurable outcomes. While the role is at an AI company and involves creating AI-native workflows and using AI tools, the core craft of the role is GTM strategy and execution, not building AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Capacity Systems Software Engineer This role focuses on building software platforms and data systems for OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization, which manages the company's large-scale compute infrastructure. The engineer will design and develop systems for capacity planning, forecasting, optimization, and operational decision-making, connecting various functions like infrastructure delivery, fleet health, and financial planning. The goal is to transform fragmented workflows into scalable systems that enable better decisions about compute deployment and resource allocation, ultimately impacting product availability and business performance. This is an internal platform and operational systems role, not directly building AI models. | — | 0 |
| M&A Integration Lead This role focuses on leading the integration of acquisitions for OpenAI, from diligence through post-close. It involves defining repeatable integration playbooks, partnering with senior stakeholders, and ensuring transactions deliver intended value. A key aspect is utilizing AI to build and scale these integration processes and platforms. | — | 0 |
| Sales Development Manager, Enterprise (AMER) This role is for a Sales Development Manager at OpenAI, focused on leading a team of SDRs to generate qualified pipeline and create strategic enterprise opportunities for OpenAI's AI platform, APIs, and enterprise solutions. The role involves coaching, operational rigor, cross-functional partnerships, and driving adoption of AI technologies within large organizations across various industries. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Accounting Manager, Compute Infrastructure This role is for a Senior Technical Accounting Manager focused on compute infrastructure at OpenAI. The primary responsibilities involve evaluating, documenting, and operationalizing complex accounting matters related to compute infrastructure, cloud arrangements, leases, and other strategic business activities under U.S. GAAP. The role requires strong technical accounting expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to translate complex accounting conclusions into practical guidance for financial reporting and operations. It is not an AI/ML development or research role. | — | 0 |
| Senior Counsel, Commercial Senior Counsel, Commercial at OpenAI, focusing on legal support for business transactions, partnerships, and operations, advising on commercial, product, regulatory, and privacy issues, and developing scalable frameworks for responsible growth in the AI industry. | — | 0 |
| Head of Ads Enterprise Marketing Head of Enterprise Ads Marketing to define and scale OpenAI’s global marketing strategy for enterprise advertisers, agencies, and strategic brand partners. This leader will own how advertisers understand, evaluate, adopt, and grow with OpenAI’s advertising solutions. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Sourcing Manager, Compute This role is for a Strategic Sourcing Manager focused on AI compute infrastructure supply and manufacturing for OpenAI's next-generation supercomputing platform. It involves developing sourcing strategies, negotiating commercial agreements for hardware components like accelerators, GPUs, CPUs, and server platforms, securing capacity, and managing supplier accountability at a global scale. The role requires deep expertise in compute systems and hardware supply chains, with a focus on enabling faster and more efficient compute deployment. | — | 0 |
| 3D Printing Lab Technician, Robotics The role is for a 3D Printing Lab Technician on the OpenAI Robotics team. The technician will manage and operate the additive manufacturing lab, supporting rapid hardware iteration for robotics development. Responsibilities include operating and maintaining 3D printers, developing workflows for print submission and tracking, preparing and post-processing prints, inspecting parts, managing inventory, and assisting with mechanical builds and general prototype technician work. The role requires hands-on experience with additive manufacturing and strong organizational skills, with preferred qualifications including extensive experience with various 3D printing technologies and materials, and familiarity with hardware engineering support and electromechanical assembly. | — | 0 |
| Recruiting Optimization Manager This role focuses on building and strengthening the systems, workflows, and operational infrastructure for recruiting at OpenAI. It involves optimizing recruiting operations across workflow design, automation, systems enablement, and service operations to ensure hiring is fast, rigorous, and scalable. The role will translate business needs into operational solutions, drive improvements across the recruiting technology stack, and identify opportunities to reduce manual work through better tooling, automation, and process design. The role also contributes to an AI-enabled roadmap for recruiting operations. | — | 0 |
| Analytics Engineer This role is for an Analytics Engineer within the Go-To-Market (GTM) organization. The primary focus is on building a data-centric culture, enhancing decision-making, and driving strategic initiatives through analytics. Responsibilities include establishing metrics, managing cross-functional data projects, creating data pipelines, developing dashboards and reports, and conducting analyses. The role requires extensive experience in data roles, SQL, Python, and business intelligence tools, with a strong emphasis on autonomy and problem-solving within GTM domains. | — | 0 |
| Senior Leasing & Strategy Manager, Real Estate & Workplace This role is for a Senior Leasing & Strategy Manager in Real Estate & Workplace at OpenAI. The primary focus is on strategic leasing decisions, financial analysis, and portfolio management for the company's global real estate. While the role mentions using AI-powered tools like ChatGPT and Codex to assist with analysis and reporting, the core responsibilities are in real estate strategy and transactions, not in building or deploying AI/ML models. Therefore, it is not considered AI-related in terms of the core craft. | — | 0 |
| Market Research Lead Market Research Lead responsible for understanding markets, audiences, behaviors, attitudes, and needs to shape outreach strategies and inform product and business decisions for OpenAI's AI products. This role will translate insights into actionable marketing plans and executions, drive business results, and orient the team towards strategic thinking to drive brand outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Transfer Pricing This role is for a Senior Manager of Transfer Pricing within OpenAI's Finance team. The primary responsibilities include designing and implementing global transfer pricing strategies, overseeing documentation and compliance, managing intercompany agreements, and collaborating with various internal teams and external advisors. The role requires extensive experience in transfer pricing, strong analytical skills, and knowledge of international tax regulations. | — | 0 |
| Accounting Manager Accounting Manager role at OpenAI focused on scaling and operating financial close, reporting, and controls. Responsibilities include managing accounting close, preparing journal entries and reconciliations, owning balance sheet integrity, partnering with FP&A and Business Systems, and designing SOX-ready controls. Requires 6+ years of accounting experience, strong U.S. GAAP knowledge, and ERP proficiency. | — | 0 |
| State Government Affairs Lead (Northeast Region) This role focuses on government affairs and public policy engagement at the state and local level in the Northeast region for OpenAI. The individual will build relationships with government officials and stakeholders, shape regional strategies, and advise internal teams on policy developments related to AI. While technical knowledge of AI is desirable, the core function is policy and advocacy, not direct AI/ML development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Export Controls This role leads OpenAI's export controls strategy and operating model, focusing on advanced computing, semiconductors, software, hardware, and high-technology partnerships. It involves refining classification, licensing, and compliance processes, and building AI- and agent-enabled systems to manage complex regulated work. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Core Network Engineering Software Engineer role focused on the end-to-end networking stack for OpenAI's AI infrastructure, ensuring network performance and reliability for large-scale training and inference workloads. Responsibilities include designing, building, and operating networking systems, improving performance, developing automation, and building observability tools. Requires experience with large-scale networking, distributed systems, Linux networking, and high-performance technologies like InfiniBand and RoCE. | — | 0 |
| Partner Manager - Search, Commerce This role focuses on managing and scaling strategic partnerships for OpenAI, specifically in the search and commerce domains, targeting consumer products. The Partner Manager will build relationships, lead cross-functional initiatives, support deal execution, and track partnership impact. The role requires strong business development and product partnership experience, with a focus on driving growth and innovation through collaboration with internal teams (product, engineering, research, sales, finance, legal, marketing) and external partners. | — | 0 |
| Partnerships Deal Lead - Search, Commerce This role is for a Partnerships Deal Lead focused on Search and Commerce products at OpenAI. The individual will identify, structure, and close strategic partnerships, manage complex commercial agreements, and drive end-to-end deal execution. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration, strategic judgment, and experience in business development or product partnerships within the technology industry. | — | 0 |
| People (HR) Operations Specialist This role is for a People Operations Specialist at OpenAI, focusing on HR operations, systems, and compliance. The primary responsibilities include maintaining Workday data integrity, conducting employee data audits, supporting global onboarding, and partnering with various internal teams. A key aspect is leveraging AI and operational best practices to automate administrative tasks. The role requires experience in HR Operations, proficiency with Workday, advanced spreadsheet analysis, and strong process deconstruction skills. While the company is AI-focused and the role mentions leveraging AI for automation, the core function is HR operations, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Paralegal, Employment Senior Paralegal, Employment at OpenAI. This role supports the employment legal team, focusing on designing, implementing, and scaling employment-related tools and processes. Responsibilities include supporting investigations, compliance, risk mitigation, workforce expansion, and managing documentation. The role requires experience in US labor and employment law, supporting litigation, and familiarity with compliance matters. Nice-to-haves include AI-specific experience and international employment law knowledge. | — | 0 |
| Networking Operating System Firmware Engineer Seeking a Networking Operating System Firmware Engineer to build and maintain custom NOS images from scratch for OpenAI's AI supercomputers. This role involves working with open-source networking components, the Linux kernel, switch ASICs, and platform drivers to ensure the reliability and performance of the switching layer. | — | 0 |
| Private Equity Lead This role is a senior sales leadership position focused on building and scaling OpenAI's private equity segment. The lead will own the strategy for engaging with private equity firms and their portfolio companies, acting as a senior external relationship leader and partnering cross-functionally to drive revenue growth. Responsibilities include developing go-to-market strategies, managing senior relationships, driving origination and pipeline creation, shaping business engagement models, and translating sponsor priorities into commercial opportunities and AI solutions. The role requires extensive experience in enterprise sales leadership, strong credibility with senior stakeholders, expertise in private equity or similar ecosystems, and exceptional operating rigor. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Finance Lead, B2B Strategy & Planning This role is for a Strategic Finance Lead focused on B2B strategy and planning at OpenAI. The primary responsibilities include building and scaling core financial infrastructure, leading consolidated planning, establishing management reporting, and partnering with leadership on forecasting, business reviews, and strategic initiatives. The role requires deep familiarity with B2B business models, strong financial modeling and analytical skills, and the ability to translate complex problems into executive narratives. While the company is in AI, this role is focused on the financial strategy and planning aspects, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Hardware Operations Technical Program Manager OpenAI's Stargate team is seeking a Hardware Operations Technical Program Manager to manage the lifecycle of AI infrastructure hardware programs. This role involves driving cross-functional execution across hardware readiness, supplier coordination, deployment, integration, manufacturing, logistics, and operational handoff. The ideal candidate will understand hardware systems, identify operational blockers, drive accountability, and create scalable processes for high-volume infrastructure deployment, supporting large-scale AI systems. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager, M&A Recruiting | People Program Manager for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Recruiting within OpenAI's Strategic Initiatives team. This role focuses on managing the people-related aspects of M&A deals from diligence through onboarding, requiring strong judgment, speed, and discretion. The responsibilities include co-designing and scaling the M&A People XFN workstream, building playbooks, ensuring a positive candidate and acquired team experience, partnering with senior leaders, leading retrospectives, and liaising with Recruiting Operations. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of relevant experience, including M&A program management or complex technical initiatives, strong project management and analytical skills, high ownership, and excellent communication. | — | 0 |
| Senior Counsel, Sanctions and Trade Compliance Senior Counsel focused on sanctions and trade compliance for an AI company, developing strategies, implementing screening, and partnering with cross-functional teams. Explores AI tools to enhance compliance efforts. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Manager, Ads Solutions This role is for a Customer Success Manager focused on OpenAI's advertising platform. The primary responsibilities include managing advertiser relationships, guiding them through onboarding and campaign launches, analyzing performance, identifying expansion opportunities, and surfacing feedback to internal teams. The role requires experience in digital advertising, account management, and data analysis, with a focus on driving partner growth and ensuring a positive advertiser experience. | — | 0 |
| Administrative Business Partner, OpenAI for Government & Global Affairs Administrative Business Partner supporting leaders in OpenAI's Government and Global Affairs teams, focusing on operational excellence, scheduling, project coordination, and stakeholder engagement to facilitate the responsible adoption of AI in government and national security contexts. | — | 0 |
| Tokens-as-a-Service (TaaS) Lead This role leads the conversion of industrial-scale infrastructure investments into usable token capacity for OpenAI workloads, focusing on the intersection of infrastructure delivery, hardware systems, and operational execution to support AI training and inference. | — | 0 |
| Systems Engineer (Network / Storage / Systems) The Stargate team at OpenAI builds and operates the physical and logical infrastructure for large-scale AI systems, focusing on compute environments for frontier model training and inference. This role involves architecting, validating, and operationalizing core infrastructure systems across networking, storage, system bring-up, and hardware debugging. The engineer will partner with various teams and vendors to ensure efficient deployment and reliable operation of new compute platforms. | — | 0 |