OpenAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
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- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2015
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- 5,000+
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Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 29% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $230k–$555k (avg $372k).
AI Frontier · AI lab
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Product Manager, Bio Safety Product Manager focused on biosecurity risk for OpenAI's frontier models. The role involves driving initiatives to ensure safe and impactful deployments, developing safety-focused product roadmaps, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Key responsibilities include creating scalable evaluation and improvement systems, integrating AI safety research, and defining metrics for safety performance. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Data Scientist, Safety Systems The Data Scientist, Safety Systems role focuses on establishing a data-driven approach to understand, evaluate, and monitor the safety of production AI systems. This involves defining and implementing metrics, creating dashboards, and collaborating with researchers and engineers to ensure safe AI deployment. The role emphasizes leadership in quantitative analysis and metric operationalization within a safety-focused team. | Eval Gate |
| 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYC OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team is seeking a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) to own the delivery of complex AI systems to customers. This role involves defining delivery plans, managing day-to-day execution, embedding with customers to ensure adoption, and translating field insights back to Product and Research. Success is measured by customer impact, adoption, and delivery reliability. The role requires strong technical project management, customer-facing experience, and a track record of shipping AI/LLM systems. | Ship | 8 |
| Data Scientist, Integrity Measurement This role focuses on developing and implementing AI-first methods for measuring and monitoring complex harms on OpenAI's platforms. The Data Scientist will own measurement and metrics for severe usage harms, build productionised safety metrics, optimize LLM prompts for measurement, and leverage agentic products for automation. The role is crucial for ensuring the integrity and security of OpenAI's scaling technology. | Eval GateData | 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - SF OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team seeks a Technical Deployment Lead to manage the delivery of complex AI systems to customers. This role involves defining delivery plans, overseeing execution, embedding with customer teams, and ensuring adoption. Success is measured by customer impact, delivery reliability, and the ability to extract reusable patterns. The role requires strong technical project management, customer-facing experience, and a track record of shipping AI/LLM systems. | Ship | 8 |
| Data Scientist, Preparedness Data Scientist role focused on evaluating, improving, and building mitigation systems to prevent extreme harms from AI. This involves deep error analysis, root cause investigation, building monitoring frameworks, and identifying trends in blocking effectiveness to influence product and policy changes. The role requires strong analytical skills, SQL/Python proficiency, and experience in high-stakes domains like security or trust & safety. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Marketing Innovation Software Engineer role focused on building and owning autonomous, customer-facing agentic systems that drive revenue and pipeline for OpenAI's marketing and sales organizations. The role involves full-stack development, API integration, orchestration, and applying OpenAI models to create AI-native products and workflows. | Agent | 8 |
| Product Engineer, Marketing Innovation Product Engineer to build and own autonomous, customer-facing agentic systems that directly drive revenue and pipeline, interfacing with enterprise customers and revenue-critical workflows. The role involves full-stack development, applying OpenAI models in novel ways, and iterating based on live usage data. | Agent | 8 |
| Technical Program Manager – Adversarial Model Research This role focuses on testing the safety and robustness of AI models through evaluations, red-teaming, and identifying failure modes. It involves leading programs to understand model behaviors, translating risks into research plans, and collaborating with research and engineering teams to integrate findings into model development and deployment cycles. The goal is to strengthen model reliability and public trust. | Eval GatePost-train | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Research - Human Data Software Engineer, Research - Human Data role at OpenAI. Focuses on building and maintaining full-stack systems for feedback collection, data labeling, and evaluation pipelines to train and improve AI models. Partners with researchers to translate alignment research into scalable production infrastructure, including inference and model training stacks. Designs user-facing tools and backend services for high-quality data workflows, driving infrastructure improvements for OpenAI's frontier models. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Codex AI Deployment Engineer focused on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by guiding them in integrating Codex into their projects and workflows, designing and validating advanced AI workflows, and building demos and integrations. This role involves technical architecture, product strategy, and customer-facing leadership, working closely with various internal teams and customers to accelerate the deployment of intelligent coding systems. | Ship | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Codex Cloud Software Engineer role focused on building the cloud-based runtime and orchestration layer for the Codex AI agent, enabling it to securely and reliably execute tasks, interact with codebases, and operate at scale for enterprise customers. This involves designing and implementing core platform capabilities, including container orchestration, sandboxed environments, identity and governance systems, and observability, to support agentic experiences. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Codex Ecosystem & Enterprise Software Engineer focused on building the ecosystem, enterprise capabilities, and platform primitives for Codex, an AI software engineer. This role involves turning Codex into a production-grade teammate for organizations, enabling its deployment, operation, and trust in demanding real-world environments. Responsibilities include developing plugins, skills, discovery surfaces, RBAC, admin/audit features, usage controls, and analytics, as well as designing secure, observable full-stack systems integrated with enterprise identity and governance solutions. The role requires leading customer deployments and iterating based on live usage signals. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Cooperative AI Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered knowledge and automation systems using OpenAI's latest technologies. The role involves end-to-end development, collaboration with various teams, and iterating on applying models to internal use cases, with a focus on customer-facing systems like knowledge systems, automation systems, and automated agent systems. | Agent | 8 |
| Backend Software Engineer (Evals) Backend Software Engineer to design and build an evals infrastructure for measuring the quality of OpenAI's support automation. The role involves building robust systems and backend services, integrating data, and collaborating with data science and research partners. Experience with AI agents, LLM evaluation methods, and distributed systems is required. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov This role focuses on leading complex deployments of OpenAI's frontier AI models for government and public sector customers. The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) will embed with clients to understand their problems, structure and build full-stack solutions, and ensure successful, compliant, and reliable deployments of AI tools like ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Gov. The role involves technical thought partnership, driving adoption, maximizing mission impact, and contributing to product roadmap through field feedback. It requires strong engineering skills, experience with LLM deployments, and the ability to manage customer relationships and technical delivery in high-stakes environments. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer This role focuses on enabling systems integrators and their enterprise customers to deploy and scale Generative AI applications using OpenAI's models. The Partner AI Deployment Engineer acts as a technical lead and trusted advisor, helping partners identify use cases, build prototypes, provide strategic guidance, and ensure successful production deployments. The role involves close collaboration with internal teams (Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, Product) and external stakeholders (SI partners, customer executives) to drive tangible business value through AI adoption. | Agent | 8 |
| Security Engineer, Agent Security Security Engineer focused on securing agentic AI systems by designing and implementing security controls, policies, and tooling. The role involves threat modeling, collaborating with infrastructure and safety teams, and influencing security strategy for AI agents. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer, AI Safety Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure to ensure the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment. The role involves utilizing AI techniques to monitor and improve model alignment, diagnosing and remediating incidents, and developing tooling to address system failures. Experience with production services, debugging live issues, and understanding AI capabilities vs. risks is desired. | Agent | 8 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, Agent Enablement Full Stack Software Engineer to design and grow an open ecosystem of agent-enabled sites and services. Responsibilities include building user and agent identity protocols, user experiences for controlling and observing agents, and evolving token consumption. The role requires strong full-stack skills, experience shipping customer-facing products, comfort with ambiguity, and collaboration with research, design, and data science teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead Safety Engineer, Robotics Lead Safety Engineer for OpenAI's Robotics team, focusing on defining and leading the product safety strategy for robotic systems. This role involves integrating safety across the entire development lifecycle, from early development through deployment, by working with leadership, engineering, research, legal, and policy teams. Responsibilities include shaping safety thinking, influencing product architecture, ensuring compliance with current and emerging regulatory expectations, and establishing long-term safety strategy. The role requires expertise in product safety, regulatory strategy, systems engineering, and risk management, with a focus on translating safety requirements into product architecture and engineering requirements, developing hazard analyses, risk assessments, and safety cases. | Ship | 7 |
| Engineering Manager, Sensitive Deployments Engineering Manager for OpenAI's Integrity team, focusing on sensitive deployments of AI in high-stakes environments like government and regulated enterprises. The role involves leading a team of engineers to ensure safe and beneficial deployment of AI technologies, translating field learnings into reusable capabilities, and managing end-to-end delivery outcomes. | Ship | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |