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 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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
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| 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. |
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| Solutions Engineer This Solutions Engineer role focuses on partnering with customers to ensure they achieve tangible business value from OpenAI's models (ChatGPT and API). Responsibilities include understanding pre-sales needs, guiding AI strategy, identifying use cases, demonstrating value, recommending architectural patterns, and handling initial security/compliance questions. The role requires strong customer relationship management and collaboration with sales and GRC teams. | — | 5 |
| 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 |
| Data Scientist, Financial Engineering Data Scientist on the Financial Engineering team at OpenAI, focusing on analytics and experimentation for checkout, payments, subscriptions, and pricing systems to improve revenue and customer experience. | — | 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 |
| Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product Technical Program Manager at OpenAI responsible for driving the execution of large-scale product and platform initiatives across ChatGPT, API, and related surfaces. This role involves translating product vision into actionable plans, shaping interfaces, and ensuring successful delivery across various layers. The TPM will collaborate deeply with product, engineering, and design teams, manage timelines, dependencies, risks, and influence architectural decisions. The role also involves understanding full-stack systems, coordinating stakeholders, and leveraging AI-powered internal tooling for tracking and optimization. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in technical program management, strong technical acumen, product sense, and excellent execution discipline. | — | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales This role focuses on pre-sales technical support for OpenAI's products like ChatGPT and the API, helping customers understand and implement solutions to achieve business value. It involves demonstrating product capabilities, recommending architectures, and building customer relationships. | — | 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 |
| Product Designer, ChatGPT Product Designer for ChatGPT team at OpenAI, focusing on user experience, UI, and interaction design for AI-first consumer and business products. Collaborates with engineering, product management, and AI research to define product strategy and tactics, and contributes to the design system and culture. | — | 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 |
| Data Scientist, Product Data Scientist on the Applied Product team at OpenAI, focusing on data-driven product development for consumer and enterprise products. Responsibilities include defining north-star metrics, designing A/B tests, establishing dashboards, and embedding with product teams to improve products and drive growth. Requires experience in quantitative roles, experiment design, and metric definition, with a preference for NLP/LLM/generative AI experience. | Ship | 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 |
| Strategic Finance, International This role is for a Strategic Finance professional to partner with leadership on the financial performance of OpenAI's international business. Responsibilities include financial visibility, performance management, supporting expansion planning, developing executive reporting, coordinating planning processes, establishing operating frameworks, driving business reviews, and supporting public-company-readiness. The role also involves helping design and implement agentic workflows and AI-enabled operating processes. Requires 10+ years of experience in finance/consulting, with 4+ years in strategic finance at a high-growth tech company. Strong analytical, modeling, and communication skills are essential, along with curiosity about AI's impact on end markets and experience with AI deployment. | — | 1 |
| Business Operations Partner, Transportation Program This role is a Business Operations Partner for the Transportation Program within OpenAI's Real Estate & Workplace organization. The primary focus is on cross-functional coordination, stakeholder support, communication, and operational follow-through to improve the employee transportation experience. The role involves building relationships, understanding needs, representing the team, gathering feedback, tracking items, supporting planning, drafting communications, and improving internal processes. It requires experience in business operations, workplace operations, or program coordination, strong organizational and communication skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager, Procurement Center of Excellence This role is for a Program Manager within OpenAI's Procurement organization, focusing on a Center of Excellence (COE) team. The primary responsibility is to design and scale processes, systems, governance, and operating models for Procurement. The role involves leading cross-functional initiatives, translating business needs into scalable requirements, driving planning and execution, and supporting continuous improvement efforts, including the use of AI and automation to enhance procurement operations. It is a product-focused role within the general domain, with no direct AI/ML craft involved. | — | 0 |
| Administrative Business Partner Administrative Business Partner role supporting executives and leaders within the Executive Operations team at OpenAI. Responsibilities include complex calendar management, expense processing, travel arrangements, and event planning. Requires strong organizational and communication skills, with 4-7 years of administrative experience in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| 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 |
| Account Director, Large Enterprise Account Director for Large Enterprise at OpenAI, focusing on driving sales and adoption of AI products within large businesses. This role involves managing the full sales cycle, developing account strategies, partnering with technical teams, and achieving revenue targets. It requires strong sales experience, technical understanding, and strategic planning to help customers leverage AI. | — | 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 |
| Account Director, Digital Natives - Nordics Account Director role focused on managing key enterprise accounts in the Nordics region, driving adoption and revenue for OpenAI's AI products. This role involves understanding customer needs, developing sales strategies, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure successful deployment and customer success. | — | 0 |
| Account Director, Public Sector - Tokyo This role is for an Account Director in the Public Sector for OpenAI, focusing on selling and deploying AI products to enterprise clients in Tokyo. The role involves managing key accounts, driving sales cycles, collaborating with internal teams, and achieving revenue targets. It requires strong sales experience, technical understanding, and excellent communication skills in Japanese and English. | — | 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 |
| Lead Industrial Designer, Robotics Lead Industrial Designer for OpenAI's Robotics team, focusing on defining the visual identity, form language, and physical expression of robotic products. This role involves concept development, industrial design, surface development, and creating production-intent digital assets for integration into engineering workflows, aiming to shape the physical experience of future robotic systems. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Lead - Cyber Develop and execute OpenAI's global cybersecurity partnership strategy, leading high-impact product, platform, and research partnerships across the cybersecurity ecosystem. This role requires shaping partnership strategy, enabling the ecosystem, and informing product, security, safety, policy, legal, and commercial considerations. | — | 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 |
| Account Director, FSI - Japan Account Director for Financial Services in Japan, responsible for managing key accounts, driving sales cycles, and achieving revenue targets for OpenAI's AI products. This role requires technical understanding, strategic vision, and partnership building to help customers leverage AI. | — | 0 |