Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 29% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $230k–$555k (avg $372k).
OpenAI currently has 235 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are in the application stage, accounting for 32% of the total, followed closely by the agents stage at 29%. The dominant function for hiring is Engineering, with 168 positions. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, evals, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models. In the last 30 days, OpenAI posted 50 new AI roles, representing a 14% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
OpenAI currently has 254 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Deployment Engineer (4), Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS (4), AI Deployment Engineer - Startups (3), AI Deployment Engineer- Codex (3), AI Deployment Engineer, Startups (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
OpenAI's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (33%), agents (28%), serving infrastructure (10%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
OpenAI is hiring AI talent in: United States (203 roles), United Kingdom (14 roles), Japan (6 roles), Germany (5 roles).
Job postings at OpenAI most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, evals, llm observability, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, OpenAI has posted 56 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Fullstack Engineer, Intelligence Systems Fullstack Engineer focused on developing and maintaining intelligence systems to detect and disrupt AI abuse, ensuring safe and responsible AI use. The role involves prototyping, building scalable systems, analyzing data, and acting as a technical bridge between data scientists and other technical teams. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Startups AI Deployment Engineer role focused on helping strategic startup customers build and scale novel applications on OpenAI's API, acting as a technical thought partner and providing guidance to maximize business impact. The role involves prototyping, synthesizing feedback, and contributing to open-source resources. | Ship |
| 7 |
| Software Engineer, Codex Ecosystem & Enterprise Software Engineer focused on building the ecosystem, enterprise capabilities, and product experiences for Codex, an AI software engineer. This role involves working across the full stack to enable deployment, operation, and trust of Codex in demanding real-world environments, including integrating with enterprise identity and governance systems, and leading customer deployments. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gov Senior Staff Software Engineer role focused on deploying OpenAI's AI technology to public sector customers, involving end-to-end feature development, infrastructure optimization, and cross-functional collaboration with product, security, and compliance teams. The role requires experience with web technologies, backend languages, and infrastructure primitives, with an interest in AI/ML. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations This role focuses on designing and building systems to proactively identify and enforce abuse on OpenAI's products, including developing abuse monitoring for new and existing products, and prototyping systems for detection, review, and enforcement. It involves investigating critical escalations and working cross-functionally with product, policy, and engineering teams. The role requires technical analysis, data engineering, and machine learning principles, with an emphasis on scaling and automating processes, particularly with language models. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Startups AI Deployment Engineer role focused on helping strategic startup customers build and scale novel applications on OpenAI's API, acting as a technical thought partner and feedback conduit to internal teams. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Public Sector - Federal Civilian This role focuses on deploying Generative AI applications for public sector customers, acting as a technical advisor to help them identify, build, and scale AI use cases using OpenAI's API and products. The engineer will partner with customer technical teams and implementation partners to move from prototype to production, ensuring tangible value and contributing to the growth of the AI Deployment Engineering function. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - Tokyo AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform for enterprise clients. This role requires deep technical knowledge of OpenAI products, APIs, and common integration patterns, along with experience in enterprise security and compliance. The engineer acts as a trusted advisor, mapping workflows, guiding deployments, and translating customer needs into actionable roadmaps, while also providing feedback to Product, Engineering, and Research teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Simulation Environments Engineer The role focuses on building tooling and infrastructure for creating high-coverage, realistic virtual environments for robotics research and evaluation. This involves designing content pipelines, authoring procedural generators, and shipping tools for environment creation, quality control, and integration with simulation farms and ML evaluation pipelines. The role sits at the intersection of game-engine practice, asset engineering, and large-scale simulation infrastructure. | DataEval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations Software Engineer focused on building systems to detect and prevent abuse, financial fraud, botting, and scripting on AI platforms. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to mitigate adversarial attacks and responds to incidents. Requires experience with production backend services and data pipelines, and a strong understanding of AI safety in production. | Agent | 7 |
| Recruiter, AI/ML Research EMEA Recruiter role focused on identifying, engaging, and recruiting top AI/ML researchers and technical scientists for OpenAI's research organization. This role acts as a strategic partner to research staff, helping define hiring priorities, shape search strategies, and influence hiring decisions. It requires deep interest in AI research and experience recruiting in highly technical environments. | — | 5 |
| Data Engineer, Scaling Analytics Data Engineer role focused on building and scaling analytical foundations for OpenAI's AI infrastructure organization, supporting operations, capacity planning, and supply chain through data pipelines, models, and reporting systems. | — | 5 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT Finances Full-stack engineer to build and scale ChatGPT Finances, owning features from frontend to backend services and data models. The role involves integrating AI capabilities to provide grounded, transparent, and useful financial insights through conversational interfaces, focusing on user trust and data security within a fintech domain. | Ship | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer - San Francisco (Weekend Shift) This role is an AI Support Engineer responsible for directly interacting with customers, troubleshooting complex issues, providing technical guidance, and improving internal tooling and operational processes. The role involves using AI capabilities to enhance support operations and scale the support organization, acting as a bridge between customers and core product/engineering teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Internal Applications - Enterprise Software Engineer to build internal enterprise applications that automate technology support and administration, reduce manual intervention, and create agentic systems for ticket resolution. Focus on integrating employees, AI agents, and human responders within an ITSM framework, emphasizing user experience and secure, auditable automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Analytics Engineer, Safety Systems The Analytics Engineer on the Safety Systems team will build data-centric culture and enhance decision-making through analytics. They will partner with Engineering, Research, and Data Science to develop and maintain canonical data sources and dashboards for safety metrics, enabling trustworthy insights for people and AI agents. The role owns the consumption layer for safety metrics, defining ways for stakeholders to understand product safety, answer questions, and inform product decisions and company strategy. This role is crucial for advancing the goals of safe, robust, and reliable AI. | Data | 5 |
| Operations Enablement Program Manager, User Safety & Risk Operations This role focuses on building and scaling operational systems for user safety and risk operations, including managing human review workflows, vendor performance, capacity planning, and integrating automation. While the company is AI-focused and the role mentions using automation and models, the core craft is operations management and system building, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Firmware Lead, Robotics Lead firmware development for general-purpose robotics, focusing on safety-critical systems, real-time execution, and co-design with ML research. This role involves defining architecture, driving reliability, and hands-on implementation, with a strong emphasis on safety and rapid iteration. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Operations Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations This role focuses on building and scaling operational capacity for new and evolving areas within User Safety & Risk Operations at OpenAI. The Strategic Operations Lead will define operating models, launch plans, and execution rhythms for new products and partnerships, ensuring clear ownership, monitoring, and escalation paths for safety and risk management. The role requires strong technical fluency, analytical skills, and the ability to coordinate across multiple teams to translate complex constraints into practical workflows. | — | 5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 This role focuses on hardware architecture for AI infrastructure, specifically engaging with silicon vendors to optimize GPU and accelerator performance for AI workloads. It involves evaluating architectural tradeoffs, benchmarking, and validating next-generation hardware. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |