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 |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer, Computer Use & Frontier Interfaces Software Engineer role focused on discovering and building next-generation AI-native interfaces and interaction paradigms. The role involves designing, prototyping, and building novel interfaces, developing foundational technologies for generative UI, and collaborating with design and product teams to create end-to-end prototypes and production systems that influence future OpenAI products. It requires comfort with ambiguity, strong product instincts, and the ability to move between experimentation and production. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer AI Deployment Engineer role focused on post-sale customer engagement to help them build and deploy Generative AI applications using OpenAI's technologies. This involves acting as a technical advisor, designing solutions, building prototypes, and guiding customers from prototype to production. | Ship |
| 7 |
| Product Manager, Shopping Product Manager for OpenAI's Shopping team, focusing on building AI-powered shopping experiences within ChatGPT. This role involves defining product vision, exploring AI applications in product discovery and decision-making, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to scale these experiences. The role operates at the intersection of AI, commerce, search, recommendations, and consumer product experiences. | Ship | 7 |
| Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success Lead the development of AI/ML-powered intelligence products for Go-to-Market (GTM) and Technical Success teams at OpenAI. This role focuses on building systems that connect customer health, product usage, and field activity into actionable insights to drive customer adoption, expansion, and retention. The lead will also build and manage a small team, setting technical standards and driving roadmap execution for insight products embedded into GTM workflows. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, API Multicloud Software Engineer role focused on extending OpenAI's API platform into cloud environments (e.g., AWS) by building backend services, APIs, and infrastructure for cloud-hosted AI capabilities, including agentic workloads. This involves adapting first-party deployments, ensuring cloud-native operation, and partnering with cloud providers and internal teams. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Android Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen Experienced Android Software Engineer to build and improve image generation experiences within the ChatGPT Android app, focusing on user-facing features powered by multimodal AI models. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse Software Engineer role focused on building and operating backend and data systems for real-time fraud and abuse detection and response at OpenAI. The role involves designing systems to combat fraudulent actors, working with various teams, and staying ahead of adversaries, potentially utilizing future AI models. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Startups Manager for AI Deployment Engineering team focused on supporting fast-moving, high-growth startup customers to move from experimentation to production with OpenAI's technologies. This role involves team leadership, technical guidance, customer strategy, and cross-functional influence to help startups realize impact from frontier AI. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack - Cybersecurity Products Software Engineer to build end-to-end workflows and backend services for AI-powered cybersecurity products, focusing on vulnerability discovery, scanning, and remediation. | Agent | 7 |
| Manager, Partner AI Deployment Engineering - AWS Manager for AI Deployment Engineering focused on AWS partnerships, responsible for leading a team that enables partners to build, deploy, and operationalize AI applications on OpenAI's platform. The role involves guiding customers through the full AI implementation lifecycle, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and driving production deployments and API adoption. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Technical Lead Manager, Data Engineering, Trust & Safety Technical Lead Manager for Trust & Safety Data Engineering team at OpenAI. This role involves leading a team, setting strategy, shaping data architecture, and driving execution on high-impact data systems for fraud and abuse detection, safety measurement, and ML feature generation. The focus is on building privacy-safe datasets and pipelines to support trust and safety initiatives. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Analytics & Automation Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations Lead a senior technical operations team responsible for building analytics, automation, and quality systems to scale User Safety & Risk Operations. This role involves translating operational problems into practical solutions, guiding ICs, prioritizing needs, and building infrastructure. Key responsibilities include workflow automation, operational health analytics, quality and evaluation systems, emerging-risk signal infrastructure, dashboards, reporting, and data feedback loops. The role requires identifying opportunities for AI/LLM integration, designing appropriate controls, and establishing measurement frameworks for operational systems. Collaboration with various teams (Product, Engineering, Policy, etc.) is essential. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Monetization ML Infrastructure Software Engineer to build ML infrastructure for OpenAI's monetization and ads systems. This role involves designing and developing the platform layer for ML models across the full lifecycle, including data pipelines, training systems, model serving, experimentation, and monitoring, with a focus on high-throughput, low-latency advertising workloads. | ServeData | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Large Enterprise AI Deployment Engineer role focused on post-sale customer engagement to ensure safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, helping customers build and execute AI adoption strategies, identify and prioritize GenAI use cases, and guide projects from prototype to production. Responsibilities include serving as a technical subject matter expert, engaging with senior stakeholders, providing architectural guidance, building prototypes, and contributing to knowledge sharing. | Ship | 7 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises, primarily through strategic partnerships with AWS. The engineer will act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from experimentation to production-scale AI systems, shaping strategy, defining engagement models, and building repeatable systems. The role involves pre- and post-sales activities, leading technical strategy for complex engagements, designing AI architectures leveraging OpenAI and AWS services, and enabling AWS and partners through scalable technical motions. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises, primarily through a strategic partnership with AWS. The engineer will act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from experimentation to production-scale AI systems, shaping strategy, defining engagement models, and building repeatable systems. Responsibilities include leading technical strategy for large engagements, designing end-to-end AI architectures, building prototypes, and enabling AWS and partners through scalable technical motions. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Full-Stack Software Engineer, Compute Foundations This role focuses on building full-stack web applications and backend services to support the operation and optimization of OpenAI's large-scale supercomputing clusters, which are used for frontier model training. The goal is to improve cluster availability, provide better insights into job failures and performance, and enhance resource management. | Serve | 7 |
| Product Manager, ChatGPT Healthcare Product Manager for ChatGPT Healthcare team, defining and building AI products for clinicians, care teams, and healthcare organizations. Focus on strategy, execution, and shipping useful, safe, and scalable AI solutions in a complex, regulated environment. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform Software Engineer focused on building internal AI applications and platform components for enterprise operations at OpenAI. This role involves developing multi-agent workflows, MCP connectors, data architecture, and evaluation systems for internal business processes. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Productivity - Inference Runtime Software Engineer focused on developer productivity for OpenAI's Inference Runtime teams. The role involves scaling engineering systems, safeguards, and developer workflows to ensure reliable, efficient, and safe model serving across various workloads. Key responsibilities include improving tooling and infrastructure for deploy gates, release validation, and observability to enhance model launch processes and inference optimizations. | Serve | 7 |
| Design Verification, Forward Deployed Engineering OpenAI is seeking an experienced Design Verification Engineer to join their Forward Deployed Engineering team, focusing on deploying AI systems in semiconductor design. The role involves serving as a technical SME for verification workflows, shaping AI-assisted processes, curating evaluations, and building prototypes. Over time, the role will expand to broader FDE responsibilities including customer partnership, solution building, and deployment ownership. | Agent | 7 |
| Product Manager, Sensitive Deployments Product Manager for Integrity team focusing on sensitive AI deployments, including government, regulated enterprise, privacy-constrained environments, and agentic workflows. The role involves defining product strategy, measuring risk, building agentic investigation workflows, and creating launch playbooks for high-risk domains. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Workflow & Operations, Revenue Strategy & Operations This role focuses on designing and building AI-native workflows, automations, and internal tools to accelerate OpenAI's Go-To-Market (GTM) organization. The engineer will work at the intersection of Revenue Operations, AI product development, systems design, and workflow engineering, using OpenAI's products and APIs to solve operational problems in areas like forecasting, pipeline management, and customer execution. The goal is to create practical AI systems that improve field productivity and operational scale. | Agent | 7 |
| Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations This role focuses on designing and building systems to identify and enforce abuse on OpenAI's products, leveraging data science, ML, and investigation. It involves developing monitoring for new and existing products, prototyping detection and enforcement systems, and investigating critical escalations. The role requires experience with SQL, Python, data engineering, ML principles, and scaling processes with language models. | Agent | 7 |
| Product Manager, Cyber Safety Product Manager for OpenAI's Safety Systems team, focusing on cybersecurity risk for frontier AI models. The role involves driving initiatives to ensure responsible deployment, developing safety roadmaps, and collaborating with research, engineering, and policy teams. Requires experience in AI safety, trust & safety, or integrity, with a background in cybersecurity and strong product management skills. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering This role focuses on investigating sophisticated threat actors targeting OpenAI's models and infrastructure, building tooling and AI-assisted workflows to enhance threat detection, disruption, and safety improvements. The primary focus is on understanding adversary behavior and developing scalable solutions to combat misuse of AI models. | Agent | 7 |
| Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering - UK This role involves investigating sophisticated threat actors targeting OpenAI's models and systems, building tooling and AI-assisted workflows to scale analysis, and translating findings into security improvements. The focus is on understanding adversary behavior, identifying misuse, and developing proactive defenses. | Agent | 7 |
| Developer Experience Engineer This role focuses on empowering developers to integrate AI into their applications by creating demos, tools, and technical content showcasing OpenAI's models and APIs. It involves engaging with the developer community, representing OpenAI at events, and gathering feedback to improve products. | Ship | 7 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises by serving as a technical advisor to AWS field leadership and partners. The engineer will drive joint customer success, shape strategy, define engagement models, and build repeatable systems to scale adoption of OpenAI-powered solutions. Responsibilities include leading technical strategy for complex engagements, guiding customers from ideation to production, designing end-to-end AI architectures, building prototypes, establishing best practices for scalable GenAI systems, and enabling AWS and partners through workshops and playbooks. The role requires strong technical leadership, systems thinking, and the ability to balance hands-on building with strategic influence. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| AI Emerging Risks Analyst This role focuses on identifying and mitigating emerging risks and potential harms associated with frontier AI technologies. The analyst will use strategic foresight, quantitative and qualitative methodologies to scan signals, detect abuse patterns, and translate findings into actionable intelligence and risk mitigation proposals. Key responsibilities include mapping risks, building early warning systems, and contributing to product safety readiness. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling Software Engineer focused on kernel performance and AI tooling, working on AI-assisted workflows, developer tooling, observability, and optimizing production kernels for AI workloads. The role involves improving AI-assisted optimization systems and partnering across research and engineering teams. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | India AI Deployment Engineer focused on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by acting as a technical partner. The role involves designing, validating, and scaling AI workflows, building demos and integrations, leading workshops, and gathering customer feedback to influence product direction. It requires deep technical expertise in AI coding tools and the software development lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on customer-facing post-sales engineering and solutions architecture. | Ship | 7 |
| Product Manager, Safety Measurement Product Manager for Safety Measurement at OpenAI, responsible for defining the strategy and roadmap for platforms that measure harm and safeguard efficacy in production. This role involves partnering with research and engineering teams to integrate AI safety research into measurement products and represent quantitative safety progress to leadership. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| ChatGPT Performance Engineer OpenAI is seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to optimize the performance, reliability, and efficiency of their AI systems, including ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. The role involves deep technical expertise in analyzing and optimizing infrastructure and application layers, developing observability tooling, influencing architecture, and leading investigations into performance issues. This is an individual contributor role focused on high-scale distributed systems. | Serve | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - NYC AI Success Engineer role at OpenAI, focused on post-sales customer engagement to drive adoption and business value of OpenAI's AI platform. Responsibilities include technical relationship management, identifying use cases, guiding deployments, and acting as a trusted advisor for enterprise clients. Requires deep technical knowledge of OpenAI products, APIs, and integration patterns, along with experience in enterprise security and customer-facing technical roles. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - San Francisco 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 acts as a trusted advisor, bridging technical capabilities with business goals and influencing product development through customer feedback. | Agent | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - US Remote AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization for enterprise clients using OpenAI's AI platform. This role requires deep technical knowledge of OpenAI products, APIs, and common integration patterns, as well as experience with enterprise security and compliance frameworks. The engineer will act as a trusted advisor, identify use cases, lead deployments, and translate customer needs into actionable roadmaps, while also providing feedback to Product, Engineering, and Research teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Workload Enablement Software Engineer to enable production workloads and end-to-end testing on new platforms for AI infrastructure. This role involves creating test harnesses, porting inference and training workloads, analyzing performance, and characterizing system behavior. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Hardware / Software CoDesign Engineer - 3P This role focuses on co-designing hardware with vendors to optimize it for AI workloads, specifically for training and inference of large language models. It involves understanding ML techniques, algorithms, and numerical approximations to influence future hardware architectures and improve performance. The engineer will also build system performance models and evaluate potential accelerators. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - Seoul, South Korea 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 acts as a trusted advisor, bridging technical and business needs, and influencing product development through customer feedback. | Ship | 7 |
| Technical Abuse Investigator This role focuses on detecting, investigating, and disrupting the misuse of OpenAI's AI platform. The investigator will develop and scale investigative processes, build technical solutions like data pipelines and utilities, and collaborate with various teams to improve detection and enforcement strategies. The role requires technical fluency in navigating complex datasets and automating manual processes, with a focus on agentic AI misuse and other relevant domains. | Agent | 7 |
| Data Scientist, Integrity Measurement Data Scientist focused on measuring and responding to adversarial threats and misuse on OpenAI's platforms, developing AI-first methods for prevalence estimation and productionised safety metrics, and optimizing LLM prompts for measurement. This role involves owning measurement and metrics for severe harm verticals, informing improvements to detection and enforcement, and leveraging agentic products for automation. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)- Platform This role is a founding Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) for the FDE Platform team at OpenAI. The primary focus is on making early design partner deployments successful, from scoping to production adoption and demonstrated value. The role involves driving alignment across OpenAI and customer stakeholders, managing delivery plans, ensuring enterprise constraints (security, auditability, infra) are handled, and converting learnings into actionable improvements. Success is measured by delivered outcomes, adoption in critical workflows, and platform reliability. | Ship | 7 |
| Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYC Platform Engineer within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) to build new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. This role involves partnering with customer-tagged FDEs to provide hands-on leverage in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, and building, turning repeated customer signals into platform bets and raising the engineering bar through tooling and mentorship. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Observability Software Engineer role focused on building the observability product for OpenAI, including scalable infrastructure for logs and metrics, and AI-native tools like agents for issue detection and debugging. The role involves owning core observability infrastructure and contributing to UI experiences, with a focus on making production systems reliable, performant, and observable. It's an engineering role within an AI company, building AI-powered internal tools. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Manager, AI Success Engineers - San Francisco Manager for AI Success Engineers focused on driving adoption and value realization of OpenAI's AI products (ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, custom GPTs) for enterprise customers, involving post-sale technical success, onboarding, and strategic partnerships. | Ship | 7 |
| Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) -SF Platform Engineer within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) at OpenAI. This role focuses on building new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. The engineer will partner with customer-tagged FDEs to provide hands-on leverage in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, hardening, and creating reusable abstractions. The goal is to translate cross-customer patterns into platform bets and raise the engineering bar through tooling and mentorship, ultimately contributing to shipped software, repeatable patterns, and durable products. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI) Software Engineer focused on building and scaling backend infrastructure for AI-powered knowledge and automation systems. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that integrate OpenAI models into high-leverage workflows, supporting internal and external customers. The team iterates fast and engineers for reliable long-term impact, focusing on building simple primitives to apply knowledge to many domains. | Agent | 7 |
| Model Policy Manager, Chemical & Biological Risk This role focuses on developing and implementing policies for AI models concerning chemical and biological risks. It involves creating structured policy frameworks and taxonomies to guide safe model behavior, translating biosecurity expertise into actionable model policies, and identifying emerging risk vectors. The role sits at the intersection of biosecurity expertise, AI safety research, and policy design, aiming to reduce misuse risks while enabling beneficial research. | Post-trainEval Gate | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer, Government AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform for government customers. This role requires deep technical understanding of OpenAI products, customer advisory skills, and program management to guide customers from initial deployment to scaled enterprise adoption. | Agent | 7 |