OpenAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2015
- Size
- 5,000+
- Website
- openai.com
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher, Loss of Control Researcher focused on mitigating loss of control risk in frontier AI models, designing and implementing an end-to-end mitigation stack for preventing, monitoring, detecting, containing, and enforcing against intentionally subversive or insufficiently controllable model behavior. This involves integrating safeguards across products and research, evaluating technical trade-offs, collaborating with risk modeling and evaluations teams, and executing rigorous testing and red-teaming workflows against advanced AI behaviors like sandbagging, monitor evasion, exploit-seeking, unsafe tool use, or strategic deception. | AgentEval Gate | 10 |
| Security Preparedness Lead, Coding Agents This role focuses on the security preparedness of internal AI coding and research agents, defending them against cyber threats and insider risks. It involves developing threat models, identifying critical security investments, and leading technical execution for security controls. |
| Agent |
| 9 |
| Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats Research role focused on mitigating AI threats to global security, specifically by identifying and preparing for security threats from advanced internal AI agents. The role involves designing security controls and stress-testing defenses with AI agent evaluations. | Agent | 9 |
| Software Engineer, Foundations Retrieval Software Engineer focused on building and scaling retrieval systems for agentic search, enabling models to retrieve and act on information. This role involves designing and operating indexing systems, retrieval pipelines, and serving layers, with a focus on performance, reliability, and observability at scale. It supports retrieval across OpenAI products and research, integrating with pretraining, inference, and product teams. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Codex Core Agent This role focuses on improving the performance, reliability, and usefulness of AI agents, specifically for software engineering tasks. It involves designing agent behaviors, developing evaluation metrics, optimizing through prompting and tool-use, analyzing production failures, and building feedback loops to enhance models and agent capabilities. The goal is to bridge the gap between research potential and real-world application, ensuring agents are dependable tools. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Software Engineer, Codex Core Agents Software Engineer focused on building and operating the production infrastructure for Codex agents, including sandboxed execution, orchestration, stateful workflows, and optimizing performance (tokens, latency, reliability, cost) for a fleet of AI agents. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Seattle This role focuses on leading end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models for strategic customers, building full-stack systems, and driving production adoption. It involves technical scoping, system design, build, and rollout, with a strong emphasis on customer collaboration and using evaluation feedback to influence product and model roadmaps. The role requires contributing code, codifying patterns, and sharing field insights. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Product Manager, API Agents Product Manager for OpenAI's API Agents team, focusing on defining and guiding the future of agentic applications built on OpenAI's models. The role involves understanding developer needs, setting roadmap priorities, and collaborating with research and engineering to deliver developer products and features like SDKs and APIs. | Agent | 9 |
| Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks Researcher focused on identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks associated with frontier AI models, designing and implementing an end-to-end mitigation stack for prevention, monitoring, detection, and enforcement. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Offensive Security Engineer, Agent Products Principal-level Offensive Security Engineer focused on deep, hands-on penetration testing of OpenAI’s agent-powered products, infrastructure, and model-integrated application surfaces. Assesses complex systems, identifies vulnerabilities, validates exploitability, and partners with engineering teams to drive fixes. Builds tools and automation for offensive security workflows. | Agent | 9 |
| Data Scientist, Codex This role focuses on measuring and accelerating product-market fit for AI developer tools, specifically within the Codex product team at OpenAI. The Data Scientist will define developer productivity metrics, design and interpret A/B tests for new coding models and features, and analyze model performance across various languages and tasks. The insights generated will directly influence the product's direction and the broader software engineering industry. | Agent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Codex Research Engineer role focused on building and improving AI systems for code generation, reasoning, and agentic behavior. The role involves research, experimentation, system optimization, and deployment across the full lifecycle of coding capabilities, aiming to enhance products like ChatGPT and the API. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling the infrastructure for training and deploying AI agents, including a novel container orchestration platform and production deployment systems. Collaborates with researchers and product teams to enable complex agentic models and launch agentic products. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering Research Engineer focused on retrieval and search algorithms and methodologies for production deployment in API and ChatGPT, involving novel research and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Requires experience in production ML systems, vector databases, and internet-scale search. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, Codex Full Stack Software Engineer to invent AI-powered software development workflows, applying AI across the entire SDLC from design to support. The role involves owning complete product experiences, including UIs, orchestration, agent/prompt design, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on shipping features that influence how developers work. | Agent | 8 |
| Agentic Risk Analyst This role focuses on analyzing and mitigating risks associated with agentic AI systems, ensuring safe and responsible deployment across OpenAI's products. The analyst will build a portfolio of agentic risks, assess emerging threats, and collaborate with various teams to implement mitigation strategies. | Agent | 8 |
| AI Tooling & Enablement Manager This role focuses on identifying and building AI-native products and workflows for OpenAI's marketing organization. The manager will work with marketing teams to leverage AI for improved quality, speed, and effectiveness, by designing and deploying workflows that combine agents, tools, and human review. The role involves prototyping, shipping automation, building reusable systems, and providing training and documentation to enable safe and effective AI adoption. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Cloud Agents Software Engineer to build and scale a cloud agent platform, focusing on orchestration, sandboxing, secure connectivity, and tool usage for long-running agents. The role involves designing and operating systems for agent orchestration at scale, partnering with product engineers to enable rapid product shipping, and improving reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Cooperative Systems Engineering Manager to lead a team building AI-powered automation systems for internal operations, focusing on autonomous reasoning and learning from humans. The role involves hands-on architecture, full-stack development, and rapid iteration with internal users and customers. | Agent | 8 |
| Abuse Investigator (AI Self-Improvement Risk) Investigate AI agentic and autonomous behavior risks, identify emerging patterns, and propose improvements to safeguards. Requires expertise in complex systems, multi-step behaviors, and ambiguous signals. | Agent | 8 |
| IC Agentic Engineering Manager - Stargate This role focuses on applying agent-based systems to infrastructure delivery and operations within OpenAI's Stargate Infrastructure team. The goal is to use AI-driven approaches for deployment orchestration, system bring-up, issue triage, debugging, and capacity management, rather than building general-purpose agent platforms. It's a player-coach role involving direct system design and implementation while leading a small team. | Agent | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Distillation & Dectection Platform Engineering Manager to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models, focusing on model IP protection, distillation detection, and emerging risks from autonomous agents. The role involves setting technical roadmaps, building scalable production systems, and partnering with Research and Product to translate model capabilities into deployed mitigations. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals, experience in adversarial environments, and leadership skills. | AgentServe | 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |