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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 29% 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 |
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| Software Engineer, Fleet Hardware Health Software Engineer responsible for the reliability and uptime of OpenAI's compute fleet, focusing on minimizing hardware failures in large-scale supercomputing infrastructure through automation and system-level investigations. | — | 0 |
| IT Support Specialist This role provides frontline IT support, manages hardware/software, and improves IT systems and processes. It requires strong technical expertise in macOS and Windows, excellent communication, and problem-solving skills. Experience with ITSM tools like ServiceNow and AV orchestration is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Payments Software Engineer on the Payments Team responsible for designing and building core payment systems, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions, and ensuring financial systems support rapid product iteration and global reach. This role focuses on the infrastructure powering OpenAI's financial systems, including user-facing payment experiences and integrations with payment service providers. |
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| Software Engineer, Hardware Health Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure for large-scale AI model training supercomputers. Responsibilities include system health checks, deep dives into hardware failures, and building automation to ensure reliability and efficiency during training runs. This role supports cutting-edge AI research by keeping the underlying systems stable. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Privacy Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and operating technical systems for legal compliance workflows, including secure data processing and document review, within OpenAI's Privacy Engineering team. This role involves designing data pipelines, building search and discovery services, automating secure data transfers, and creating locked-down compute environments, collaborating closely with Legal, Security, and partner engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data) Software Engineer role focused on building and operating a core online database platform (Habitat) for OpenAI's internal user data. Responsibilities include designing and implementing abstractions for storage, caching, routing, CDC, and privacy enforcement, while improving performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads. The role requires strong distributed systems experience and ownership of end-to-end system development and operations. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Privacy Software Engineer to build backend systems for privacy and data compliance functions within OpenAI's API products and consumer applications. Will work closely with legal advisors to respond to legal processes and ensure data privacy. Focus on automation and developing data handling policies. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer, Application Security Security Engineer, Application Security role at OpenAI focused on identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in software applications through building security tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. The role involves collaborating with development teams to integrate secure coding practices throughout the SDLC and providing security guidance. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer, Application Security Security Engineer, Application Security at OpenAI responsible for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities within software applications through building security tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. Collaborates with development teams to ensure secure coding practices and provides security guidance. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Compute - Storage Software Engineer for Storage Infrastructure team at OpenAI, responsible for building and operating storage systems that support both research and production workloads. This role involves working with object storage, cross-region data movement, lifecycle management, and a federation layer, primarily using Rust and Kubernetes. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Frontier Clusters Infrastructure This role focuses on building and operating the infrastructure for large-scale AI model training. It involves managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters, automating bare-metal bring-up, and developing software abstractions for compute clusters. The goal is to ensure the reliability and efficiency of hyperscale supercomputers used for frontier model training. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management Software Engineer focused on power management for large-scale supercomputers used for AI model training. The role involves developing and implementing system-level and software-level solutions to optimize power usage, build automation for monitoring and stabilization, and collaborate with researchers and hardware teams. Requires strong software engineering experience, Python proficiency, and knowledge of distributed systems and electrical engineering concepts. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer, Application Security Security Engineer focused on application security, responsible for identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities through tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and assessments. Collaborates with development teams to integrate security throughout the SDLC and fosters security awareness. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Real Time Software Engineer focused on building and scaling real-time communication systems for products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. This role involves full-stack development, infrastructure management (Kubernetes, Go, Python), and ensuring the reliable operation of globally deployed systems, including participation in an on-call rotation. Experience with real-time communication products, audio/video calling, WebRTC, and scaled production systems is highly valued. While ML experience is a plus, it is not a requirement. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Financial Engineering Software Engineer role focused on architecting and building next-generation billing and monetization systems for OpenAI's ChatGPT and API users. The role involves developing across the stack to create comprehensive billing integrations, designing a scalable and enterprise-ready platform for subscription and usage-based offerings, and constructing tools for internal teams. Collaboration with Product, Data, Finance, and Go-To-Market teams is key. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, with bonus for payments/billing/monetization experience. Ability to work in a fast-paced, sometimes loosely defined environment is important. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Ad Formats | — | — |
| Strategic Sourcing Leader - Enterprise & Engineering Technology | — | — |
| Tech Lead, Deployment & Operations — Custom Infrastructure | — | — |
| Data Scientist, Safety | — | — |
| Data Scientist, Safety | — | — |
| Customer Success Manager, Ads Solutions (Spanish Speaking) | — | — |
| Director of Product Finance, Compute & Infrastructure Demand | — | — |
| Solutions Architect, Digital Natives | — | — |
| AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents | — | — |
| Strategic Finance, Product | — | — |
| Readiness & Enablement Lead, SMB Sales | — | — |
| Supply Chain Operations Program Manager, AI Infrastructure | — | — |
| Supply Chain Program Manager (SCPM) - AI Infrastructure | — | — |
| GTM Growth Product Manager, Agentic Systems | — | — |
| Staff+ Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering | — | — |
| Senior Data Engineer, Core Experimentation | — | — |
| Developer Experience Engineer (Mandarin-Speaking) | — | — |
| Support Delivery Lead, EMEA - Dublin | — | — |
| Model Policy | — | — |
| Data Scientist, Core Experimentation | — | — |
| Data Engineer, People Innovation Labs | — | — |
| Physical Design Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering | — | — |
| Developer Experience Engineer | — | — |
| Program Manager, Safety | — | — |
| Model Policy, Frontier Cyber Risk | — | — |
| Platform Product Partnerships Lead | — | — |
| Travel Operations Lead | — | — |
| Program Manager - Technology Capital Builds | — | — |
| Head of Events, APAC | — | — |
| Account Director, Digital Natives & Startups - Japan | — | — |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | Korea | — | — |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | Tokyo | — | — |
| Finance Manager - Hardware Consolidations | — | — |
| Senior Counsel, Public Sector | — | — |
| Researcher, Alignment Oversight | — | — |