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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineer - Tokyo This role focuses on ensuring developers and enterprises are successful in building scalable production applications using the OpenAI API platform. The AI Deployment Engineer will partner with strategic customers to guide them through application ideation, development, delivery, and scaling, accelerating their time to value and maximizing the benefits of OpenAI's models. The role involves prototyping solutions, managing customer relationships, contributing to open-source resources, and synthesizing feedback for Product and Research teams. | Ship |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| AI Support Engineer - Tokyo This role is an AI Support Engineer focused on customer adoption and support of OpenAI's AI products. The engineer will resolve complex customer issues, provide technical guidance, and work with cross-functional teams to improve product experience and scale support operations. They will leverage AI tools and emerging capabilities to automate processes and improve internal tooling, contributing to the success of AI solutions. | Ship | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer - Singapore This role is for an AI Support Engineer who will work directly with customers to resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support the adoption of OpenAI's AI products. The role involves troubleshooting, partnering with engineering teams, using AI capabilities to improve internal tooling, and scaling support operations. It requires strong problem-solving, communication, and technical skills, with an emphasis on customer experience and operational improvements in the AI domain. | Ship | 5 |
| AI Support Engineer - Dublin This role is for an AI Support Engineer on the User Operations team at OpenAI. The primary focus is on supporting customers in their adoption and value maximization of OpenAI's AI products. The role involves troubleshooting complex issues, providing technical guidance, and partnering with engineering teams. A key aspect is leveraging AI capabilities to improve internal tooling, automate processes, and scale support operations for the 'post-AGI' era. The role is customer-facing and requires strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on improving customer experience and operational efficiency. | 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 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Singapore This role focuses on partnering with customers to build and deploy custom software solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs. The engineer will act as a technical expert, designing and implementing scalable solutions, and providing customer feedback to internal teams. It's a customer-facing role that bridges the gap between research and production systems. | — | 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 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Munich Software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. This role involves embedding with strategic customers, designing and developing full-stack solutions, and collaborating with internal teams to provide customer feedback. | Ship | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Dublin Customer-facing software engineer to build custom solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs, acting as a technical expert and trusted advisor to clients, and providing feedback to internal teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Paris Software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail. Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach. Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments. Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure. | — | 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 |