OpenAI
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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).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Product Engineer, GTM Innovation Product Engineer on the GTM Innovation team at OpenAI, responsible for building and shipping high-impact applications and tools using OpenAI's API platform to accelerate go-to-market efforts. This role involves working across the full product lifecycle, embedding with go-to-market teams to identify user needs, and applying OpenAI's models in novel ways to solve real-world problems. The ideal candidate has experience building user-facing systems, LLM-powered workflows, and a strong sense of ownership. | Ship | 7 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, GTM Innovation Full Stack Software Engineer for the GTM Innovation team, focusing on building and shipping applications that leverage OpenAI's models to improve go-to-market efforts. This role involves working across the full product lifecycle, from prototype to production, and collaborating closely with go-to-market teams to understand user needs and solve real-world problems. | Ship | 7 |
| Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation Backend Software Engineer for the GTM Innovation team, focused on building and shipping AI-powered applications and tools to enhance OpenAI's go-to-market efforts. This role involves working across the full product lifecycle, partnering with go-to-market teams, and applying OpenAI's models to solve real-world problems, ultimately shaping customer experience and defining new enterprise software categories. | Ship | 7 |
| Data Science Manager, Integrity Manager for Integrity Data Science team at OpenAI, focusing on responsible AI deployment. The role involves leading a team to build measurement systems, experimentation practices, and detection/mitigation strategies against misuse, fraud, and adversarial behaviors. Key responsibilities include driving strategy across multiple integrity domains, building analytical rigor, partnering with Product & Engineering, and evolving team structure. The role emphasizes an AI-leveraged operating mode and requires strong leadership, technical grounding in DS techniques, and experience in adversarial problem spaces. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Deployment Manager - NYC AI Deployment Manager at OpenAI, focused on post-sales technical enablement and adoption of AI products like ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and Agents. This role involves designing and delivering training, workshops, and adoption programs to help enterprise customers effectively use and integrate OpenAI's AI capabilities, translating technical features into measurable business value. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Productivity - Training Runtime Software Engineer focused on improving the developer experience and productivity within OpenAI's core training and inference frameworks. This role involves optimizing iteration speed, CI, and testing strategies to support researchers working on frontier experiments. | DataServe | 7 |
| Simulation Realism Engineer Seeking a Simulation Realism Engineer to improve the accuracy of simulation environments for robotics research and product development. This role involves defining realism metrics, tuning simulation parameters, integrating third-party engines, and developing tooling and pipelines for large-scale simulation operations. The goal is to close the sim-to-real gap for AI-powered robots. | Agent | 7 |
| Fullstack Engineer, Intelligence Systems Fullstack Engineer focused on developing and maintaining intelligence systems to detect and disrupt AI abuse, ensuring safe and responsible AI use. The role involves prototyping, building scalable systems, analyzing data, and acting as a technical bridge between data scientists and other technical teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Manager, AI Success Engineers - NYC Manager for AI Success Engineers focused on driving adoption and value realization of OpenAI's AI products (specifically ChatGPT Enterprise) for enterprise customers. This role involves leading a technical team, developing strategy, ensuring customer onboarding and activation, and representing customer needs to product teams. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Startups AI Deployment Engineer role focused on helping strategic startup customers build and scale novel applications on OpenAI's API, acting as a technical thought partner and providing guidance to maximize business impact. The role involves prototyping, synthesizing feedback, and contributing to open-source resources. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gov Senior Staff Software Engineer role focused on deploying OpenAI's AI technology to public sector customers, involving end-to-end feature development, infrastructure optimization, and cross-functional collaboration with product, security, and compliance teams. The role requires experience with web technologies, backend languages, and infrastructure primitives, with an interest in AI/ML. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Data Scientist, Platform and B2B Products Data Scientist on the Platform team at OpenAI, focusing on API and B2B solutions. The role involves defining metrics, measuring impact, and partnering with product and engineering to improve model quality, reliability, latency, and cost, ultimately shaping the adoption of agentic AI. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Startups AI Deployment Engineer role focused on helping strategic startup customers build and scale novel applications on OpenAI's API, acting as a technical thought partner and feedback conduit to internal teams. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Public Sector - Federal Civilian This role focuses on deploying Generative AI applications for public sector customers, acting as a technical advisor to help them identify, build, and scale AI use cases using OpenAI's API and products. The engineer will partner with customer technical teams and implementation partners to move from prototype to production, ensuring tangible value and contributing to the growth of the AI Deployment Engineering function. | Ship | 7 |
| Simulation Environments Engineer The role focuses on building tooling and infrastructure for creating high-coverage, realistic virtual environments for robotics research and evaluation. This involves designing content pipelines, authoring procedural generators, and shipping tools for environment creation, quality control, and integration with simulation farms and ML evaluation pipelines. The role sits at the intersection of game-engine practice, asset engineering, and large-scale simulation infrastructure. | DataEval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations Software Engineer focused on building systems to detect and prevent abuse, financial fraud, botting, and scripting on AI platforms. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to mitigate adversarial attacks and responds to incidents. Requires experience with production backend services and data pipelines, and a strong understanding of AI safety in production. | Agent | 7 |