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.
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| Physical Security Systems Engineer This role is for a Physical Security Systems Engineer at OpenAI, responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining physical security systems such as access control, video surveillance, and GSOC workflows across global facilities. The role involves troubleshooting technical issues, managing operational tickets, coordinating with integrators and vendors, and partnering with IT/NetEng and Workplace teams to ensure system reliability and scalability. The focus is on hybrid physical security infrastructure engineering, operational systems support, stakeholder coordination, and vendor management, aiming to improve operational consistency and reduce manual work through automation opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Physical Security Systems Engineer This role is for a Physical Security Systems Engineer at OpenAI, responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining physical security systems such as access control, video surveillance, and GSOC workflows across global facilities. The role involves troubleshooting technical issues, managing operational tickets, coordinating with vendors, and partnering with IT and Facilities teams to ensure system reliability and scalability. It requires a hands-on approach to infrastructure engineering and operational support, with a focus on improving consistency and automation. |
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| Physical Security Systems Engineer - APAC This role is for a Physical Security Systems Engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining physical security systems (access control, video surveillance) across APAC for OpenAI's facilities. It involves technical support, troubleshooting, system integration, documentation, and improving operational processes, partnering with IT, Facilities, and Security Operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management to help shape and scale OpenAI’s risk and controls framework across several dynamic business domains. This role will focus on identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating operational and financial risk across areas such as payments, equity, strategic investments, procurement, people processes, systems, third-party dependencies, and other finance-critical workflows. | — | 0 |
| 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 |
| Corporate Security Operations Manager, London This role is for a Corporate Security Operations Manager in London, responsible for leading day-to-day corporate and physical security operations for OpenAI's London office. The role involves managing access control, visitor management, incident response, security vendors, and partnering with various internal teams to ensure a safe workplace. It requires 8+ years of experience in corporate security or related fields, with a focus on managing office-based physical security and vendor operations. | — | 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. | — | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Consumer Devices Seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 8+ years of experience to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure platforms powering OpenAI's products. This role involves evolving cloud infrastructure abstractions, architecting for growth, improving distributed systems, and influencing technical direction. The engineer will partner with product, research, and engineering teams, own operational excellence, and mentor others. Expertise in Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and distributed systems is required. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Systems & Enablement Lead, Recruiting Operations This role is for a Systems & Enablement Lead within Recruiting Operations at OpenAI. The primary focus is on managing and improving recruiting technology systems, workflows, and operational support. While the role involves evaluating AI and automation for support improvements, it is not a core AI/ML development role. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| GRC Program Manager, US Government Compliance Program Manager responsible for obtaining and maintaining US Government Authorizations to Operate (ATOs) and compliance with frameworks like FedRAMP for OpenAI products in highly regulated and secure environments. Requires deep understanding of USG security frameworks, technical program management, and collaboration with engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| CPU/Storage/PoP-WAN Program Manager This role is for a Program Manager focused on the end-to-end infrastructure layers required to bring compute online for AI workloads, including server and cluster activation, storage platforms, Points of Presence (PoPs), and backbone connectivity. The role involves coordinating hardware, site readiness, network, and engineering dependencies to convert contracted infrastructure into live training and inference capacity. While the infrastructure supports AI, the role itself is not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Controls Network Engineer OpenAI is seeking a mid to senior OT Network Engineer to design, validate, and scale the controls and OT network architectures for high-density AI data centers. This role involves defining requirements, developing reference architectures, and ensuring the resilience, security, and scalability of OT network designs, partnering with various engineering and operations teams. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager (Network and Whitespace) This role is for an Engineering Program Manager focused on Data Center Infrastructure, specifically network and whitespace facilities, to support OpenAI's AI research and products. The EPM will translate infrastructure goals into executable programs, coordinate cross-functional teams (including network, controls, electrical, mechanical), manage external partners, and ensure readiness for deployment and operations. The role requires managing complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes engineering programs from concept through to operational handoff. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Infrastructure Mechanical Engineer Seeking a senior mechanical engineer to design, validate, and scale cooling and mechanical systems for high-density AI data centers. This role involves defining thermal architectures, evaluating equipment, and driving technical decisions across various teams to ensure reliable and efficient operation of liquid-cooled AI compute infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer Seeking a senior electrical engineer to design, validate, and scale power systems for high-density AI data centers. This role involves translating compute requirements into facility and rack-power architectures, evaluating new technologies, and driving technical decisions across the lifecycle of electrical power systems. | — | 0 |
| Environmental Health and Safety, Engineering & Technical Program Manager This role is for an Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager focused on supporting hardware engineering, research and development, and technical operations environments. The primary responsibilities include assessing and controlling exposure risks, strengthening safe work practices, building scalable EHS programs, and providing EHS advisory input on product and equipment safety. The role emphasizes operational judgment, field presence, and collaboration with technical teams to ensure regulatory compliance and safety in fast-moving environments. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Consumer Devices Seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 8+ years of experience to design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure platforms powering OpenAI's products. This role involves deep technical expertise in Kubernetes, cloud abstractions, and distributed systems, with a focus on influencing technical direction and ensuring operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Test Engineer, AI Compute Infrastructure - Stargate This role focuses on developing and executing manufacturing test strategies for AI compute infrastructure hardware. The engineer will collaborate with manufacturing partners, define test requirements, drive Design for Test (DFT), build automated test scripts, resolve yield issues, and ensure hardware is testable, reliable, and production-ready at scale. The role is crucial for ensuring the quality of hardware powering OpenAI's frontier AI systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform at OpenAI. Focuses on designing, building, and operating critical backend/systems infrastructure in Rust or C++ to support research workflows. Emphasizes low-level performance, distributed systems, and hands-on operation of services at scale, including debugging production bottlenecks and improving reliability on Kubernetes. | — | 0 |
| Business Recruiter, APAC Recruiter for Go-to-Market (GTM) teams at OpenAI, focusing on Sales, Customer Success, Partnerships, and Technical Solutions. This role involves end-to-end hiring, strategic talent partnering, and building global GTM organizations. | — | 0 |
| Industrial Security Lead, Washington DC The Industrial Security Lead will develop and scale a world-class industrial security program across multiple locations, focusing on building and managing secure facilities for government partners, overseeing personnel security programs, and ensuring strict compliance with U.S. government regulations. This role requires deep expertise in U.S. Government industrial security programs and hands-on program execution. | — | 0 |
| Senior Paralegal, Litigation Senior Paralegal to support litigation, dispute resolution, and regulatory matters at OpenAI, a leading AI research and deployment company. This role involves case management, fact investigations, and process development within the Legal team. | — | 0 |
| IT Support Singapore, APAC Regional Lead This role is for an IT Support Lead in Singapore, responsible for frontline IT support, employee lifecycle operations, AV and event support, vendor and asset management, and improving IT systems and processes across the APAC region. The role requires strong technical expertise in macOS and Windows, collaboration tools, and AV systems, with experience in leading support operations and driving process improvements. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, System Enablement Software Engineer, System Enablement role at OpenAI focuses on building and maintaining the infrastructure backbone for deploying and operating AI models. This involves end-to-end system bring-up, provisioning automation, fleet management, and integrating new hardware into schedulable capacity. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes, IaC, provisioning, networking, and automation scripting, with a focus on ensuring system stability, observability, and readiness for internal customers. | — | 0 |
| Facilities Operations Lead - Stargate This role is for a Facilities Operations Lead responsible for the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of AI data centers. It involves managing infrastructure, defining operational processes, and ensuring the reliability of facilities that support AI workloads. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security Principal Software Engineer for Infrastructure Security at OpenAI, focusing on safeguarding core research and production environments including GPU clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, and critical services powering AI models. The role involves owning architecture and roadmap for security services, designing planet-scale security systems, leading cross-functional launches, building security primitives, and leveraging frontier models for automation and detection. Requires strong software engineering, distributed systems, and security infrastructure experience, with expertise in cloud platforms and leading technical initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Executive IT Support Lead This role is for an Executive IT Support Lead responsible for building and managing a high-touch IT support program for executives at OpenAI. The lead will provide direct support, design the program's growth, and coordinate with IT and Security teams to ensure executives have secure and efficient technology. The role requires extensive experience in executive IT support, strong technical skills in macOS/Windows, identity management, and collaboration tools, excellent communication, and a security-first mindset. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineer - Rack Infrastructure & Site Operations - Stargate This role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of datacenter infrastructure that supports AI workloads. The Quality Engineer will establish and manage quality programs across the supply chain, conduct vendor assessments, drive yield improvements, and implement corrective actions. The role requires experience in manufacturing quality management and supplier quality engineering, with a focus on complex projects and mission-critical facilities. | — | 0 |
| Infrastructure Partnership Delivery Lead – Stargate This role focuses on managing the delivery and operational readiness of AI infrastructure, specifically large-scale datacenter campuses (Stargate program) built in partnership with capital partners. It involves overseeing construction, hardware deployment, and partner operations to ensure efficient and reliable AI compute infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure Reliability Software Engineer focused on reliability and scaling of infrastructure that supports AI systems, including research and products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. Responsibilities include designing, building, and operating reliable systems, identifying performance bottlenecks, contributing to incident response, and improving automation. Requires experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and observability tools. | — | 0 |
| Optical Network Engineer This role is for an Optical Network Engineer focused on laser-related work within optical interconnects for large-scale compute systems. The responsibilities include driving laser-focused requirements, evaluating optical components, supporting end-to-end optical testing, and collaborating with external partners and internal teams. The role requires hands-on experience in laser-focused optical engineering and IM/DD optical technologies. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager, Compute Infrastructure The Technical Program Manager for Compute Infrastructure will own the end-to-end delivery of large-scale GPU clusters and compute infrastructure, partnering with engineers to bring clusters online. This role involves managing hardware, networking, power, and cooling, driving execution, risk management, and ensuring alignment across teams to deliver production-ready capacity at scale for both training and inference workloads. | — | 0 |
| Operations Exploratory This role is for an Operations Manager on the Consumer Products team at OpenAI, focusing on hardware. The manager will own the execution and strategy for transforming early product concepts into high-quality, manufacturable consumer devices. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional planning, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring supply, cost, and schedule alignment for hardware programs. The role requires experience in hardware operations, manufacturing, or supply chain for consumer electronics, and a track record of taking products from concept through mass production. | — | 0 |