OpenAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2015
- Size
- 5,000+
- Website
- openai.com
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AI Frontier · AI lab
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.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Forward Deployed Engineer - Paris This role focuses on deploying frontier AI models into production systems for strategic customers, involving end-to-end ownership from discovery and scoping to system design, build, and rollout. The engineer will partner with customer teams, contribute code, build full-stack systems, and provide feedback to improve models and product roadmaps, measuring success through adoption and impact. | AgentServe | 9 |
| AI Deployment Engineer - Startups AI Deployment Engineer focused on working with strategic startup customers to optimize their use of OpenAI's technology, identify failure modes, and translate learnings into product improvements and better model behavior. The role involves prototyping prompts/agents, designing evaluations, and building repeatable tools to improve AI systems. |
| 8 |