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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - London This role focuses on partnering with customers to build and deploy custom software solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs. The engineer will embed with clients, design and develop full-stack solutions, and act as a technical advisor, contributing to the scaling of customer delivery and providing feedback to internal teams. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Tokyo 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. |
| Ship |
| 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 |
| Senior Support Engineer - Tokyo Senior Support Engineer role focused on providing technical guidance and resolving complex issues for enterprise customers using OpenAI's API platform. The role involves designing and running operational processes, leveraging automation and AI to scale support, configuring monitoring and alerting, contributing to reliability reviews, refining incident response, and analyzing operational metrics. Requires strong troubleshooting, SRE/NOC, monitoring, incident response, scripting (Python), cloud infrastructure, and cross-functional collaboration skills. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 workflows, partnering with other teams, and evaluating emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab. | — | 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 |
| Security Engineer, Detection and Response - EMEA Security Engineer focused on Detection and Response for OpenAI's infrastructure, products, and research environments. The role involves building and operating systems to detect suspicious activity, automate response, and partner with other teams to ensure security requirements are met. It also includes evaluating and responding to emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab, with a specific mention of agents operating across infrastructure at scale. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Support Engineer - Dublin Senior Support Engineer role focused on providing technical guidance, resolving complex issues, and supporting enterprise customers using OpenAI's API platform. The role involves designing and running operational processes, monitoring, incident response, and leveraging AI/automation to scale support operations. It acts as the last line of defense before core engineering. | — | 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 |
| Data Engineer OpenAI is seeking a Data Engineer to build and manage data pipelines for user event data integration into their data warehouse. This role will develop canonical datasets for key product metrics, support safety systems, and collaborate with research teams to aid in new model training. The position requires expertise in data engineering technologies and distributed processing frameworks. | Data | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Data Acquisition Software Engineer focused on data acquisition for model training, involving web crawling, data ingestion, and large-scale distributed systems. | — | 5 |
| Supply Chain Transformation Architect This role focuses on transforming supply chain operations for robotics, consumer hardware, and data center infrastructure by redesigning processes, enabling them with systems architecture and data foundation, and integrating AI-driven automation. The goal is to move from manual operations to intelligent, data-driven execution, including building a Supply Chain Control Tower and embedding AI insights into workflows. | — | 1 |
| Program Manager, Technology Capital Builds This role is for a Program Manager responsible for executing Technology Capital Builds at OpenAI. The role involves coordinating with various internal teams (Real Estate, IT, Security) and external partners to design and deliver technical solutions for facility build-outs, including offices, labs, and datacenters. Key responsibilities include ensuring secure and reliable network infrastructure, AV systems, and physical security, managing project scope, schedule, budget, and quality, and providing portfolio status visibility. The role requires strong project management skills, knowledge of construction processes, and vendor management experience. | — | 0 |
| Android Engineer, Growth Android Engineer focused on building and improving consumer-facing mobile experiences for ChatGPT's paid offerings, driving activation, conversion, and retention through experimentation and collaboration with product, design, and data teams. | — | 0 |
| Advanced Packaging Reliability Engineer This role focuses on the reliability engineering of advanced packages for high-performance AI and computing systems. The engineer will use thermal and mechanical modeling to optimize package design, material selection, and assembly processes, develop reliability test plans, identify failure mechanisms, and perform root-cause analysis. The goal is to ensure the robustness and lifetime of packages used in AI workloads. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Application Data Architect, GTM Systems This role focuses on defining and improving the data architecture for go-to-market systems and enterprise CRM environments. It involves designing scalable data models, establishing system-of-record definitions, improving integrations, and leading data quality and governance initiatives across the customer lifecycle. The role requires expertise in enterprise data architecture, data management, and CRM systems, with a focus on translating business requirements into technical solutions. | — | 0 |
| System Power Engineer, Consumer Devices Seeking a System Power Engineer to characterize, measure, and optimize power consumption on embedded hardware products for AI-powered consumer devices. This role involves building power test automation, measuring subsystem power usage, and driving improvements in battery life, thermal behavior, charging performance, and system reliability. The engineer will collaborate with Electrical Engineering and system software teams to establish methodologies and metrics for power efficiency. | — | 0 |
| System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices This role focuses on optimizing the performance of AI-powered consumer devices, specifically profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing performance across embedded hardware, operating systems, and applications. The engineer will define product KPIs, build performance tooling, and drive optimizations from lab to launch. | — | 0 |
| Lead, Incidents & Escalations, User Operations Lead Incidents & Escalations for User Operations at OpenAI, a player-coach role focused on building and running the incident response function. This involves active participation in incidents, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing communications, and driving post-incident analysis and process improvements to enhance customer experience and reduce repeat issues. The role requires strong leadership, calm under pressure, and the ability to balance day-to-day operations with long-term system building. | — | 0 |
| Salesforce Ads Systems Engineer This role focuses on building and engineering Salesforce solutions for OpenAI's emerging ads business. The primary responsibility is to create scalable and auditable systems for advertiser lifecycle management, campaign readiness, approvals, and revenue operations, integrating Salesforce with various ads and billing platforms. It's an execution-heavy builder role within the Enterprise Platform team. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer, Soft Goods Design Mechanical Engineer to lead the engineering, characterization, and productionization of flexible and compliant components in robotic platforms. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate material concepts into engineered subsystems that meet functional, durability, and manufacturing requirements. Focus on understanding soft material behavior in dynamic mechanical systems and designing assemblies that perform consistently at scale. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Private Computing Software Engineer to design, build, and scale novel privacy features and infrastructure for OpenAI's products (ChatGPT, API, consumer devices), focusing on confidential computing, trusted execution environments, and end-to-end encryption to ensure user data privacy. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer, Sensing Mechanical Engineer focused on designing and prototyping tactile, proprioceptive, and force sensor solutions for the Robotics team at OpenAI, integrating hardware and software for general-purpose robotics and AGI-level intelligence. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Design Engineer Seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead the design, integration, and sustaining engineering of mechanical subsystems in robotic platforms, working closely with AI capabilities and physical systems to improve lives. This role involves hands-on work with hardware from prototype through early production, focusing on mechanical system design fundamentals. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Web Layer Software Engineer, Web Layer at OpenAI, focusing on the web-based systems and user experiences for the Codex desktop client application. This role involves designing and implementing infrastructure and features end-to-end, working on both backend C++ and Chromium, with some TypeScript and Python for infrastructure. The goal is to create a hybrid agentic/interactive web browser. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Procurement Operations - Hardware This role is for a Senior Manager of Procurement Operations focused on Hardware at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is to own and manage the operational flow of goods and hardware purchasing, from request intake to purchase orders, supplier coordination, and invoice support. The role involves redesigning workflows, improving systems, and implementing automation and AI-enabled processes to scale operations. It requires a strong understanding of procurement, supply chain, fiscal controls, and accounting practices, with experience in complex physical-goods environments. The role is hands-on, requiring both operational execution and process redesign. | — | 0 |
| IT Logistics Lead, Singapore This role is for an IT Logistics Lead in Singapore responsible for managing and scaling IT logistics operations across the APAC region. The role involves hands-on inventory management, vendor relationships, asset management, contractor oversight, and improving logistics systems and processes using AI and automation. The goal is to ensure reliable, accurate, and scalable device logistics for all employees. | — | 0 |
| Systems Software Engineer, Security, First Party Hardware This role focuses on the end-to-end security foundation for OpenAI's first-party AI hardware systems, covering hardware security, embedded security, system security, and deployment at data center scale. Responsibilities include defining and delivering system-level device trust, from boot integrity to decommissioning, and translating threat models into requirements and validation evidence. The role requires extensive experience in hardware and embedded security, with a strong understanding of applied cryptography and systems programming. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Test Engineer OpenAI is seeking a Manufacturing Test Engineer to own and drive the manufacturing test strategy, development, and execution for complex AI hardware systems. This role involves defining and implementing test coverage across the product lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring manufacturing test readiness from early development through volume production. The engineer will analyze test data, debug failures, improve yield, and drive continuous improvement of test processes for AI hardware. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Hardware Partnerships This role focuses on strategic hardware partnerships, managing relationships with silicon, systems, and manufacturing partners to support OpenAI's product roadmap. It involves defining joint strategies, structuring and negotiating complex agreements, and managing operational rhythms and impact measurement. The role requires deep experience in hardware ecosystems, supply chain, and commercial leadership, with a strong ability to influence cross-functional teams and external partners. | — | 0 |
| Host Systems Software Engineer OpenAI is seeking an experienced systems software engineer to design and build the host software stack for their custom next-generation AI systems. This role involves working closely with hardware on performance-critical software, including Linux kernel drivers, high-throughput I/O paths, and system-scale networking. Responsibilities include platform bring-up, debugging, performance optimization, and developing software for PCIe, DMA, NICs, and accelerators. The role requires strong C/C++ and Linux systems fundamentals, with experience in areas like kernel drivers, networking, or RDMA. | — | 0 |
| Executive Protection Operator The Executive Protection Operator role at OpenAI is responsible for safeguarding OpenAI's executives and key employees by providing security support during travel, events, and daily operations. This role requires proficiency in firearms handling, conducting threat assessments, advance work, and coordinating with various stakeholders to mitigate security risks. The operator must be able to respond to emergencies with discretion and maintain a flexible schedule to meet operational needs. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Investments & Consolidation Accounting Director Director of Strategic Investments & Consolidation Accounting at OpenAI, responsible for leading accounting, governance, reporting, and operational processes for strategic investments, consolidation matters, ownership structures, and complex transactions. This role requires deep U.S. GAAP expertise, experience with investment accounting, and the ability to build and scale accounting functions. | — | 0 |
| Audiovisual Design Engineer This role is for an Audiovisual Design Engineer at OpenAI, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the company's conference room audio-visual and video conferencing infrastructure globally. The role involves setting AV standards, managing hardware and software, ensuring reliability and scalability, and integrating AV systems with core IT services. Experience with enterprise AV systems, networking, and IT support is required. | — | 0 |