OpenAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
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- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2015
- Size
- 5,000+
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer, Cyber Frontier Software Engineer role focused on building AI systems and products for cyber threat understanding and response, improving safety and reliability of frontier models in security-sensitive settings. Responsibilities include defining and executing technical roadmaps, working with defenders and customers, shaping model training and access patterns, and building research and evaluation systems. | ShipEval Gate | 9 |
| Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API) Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for delivering innovative multimodal API products, including real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image creation. The role involves owning the product roadmap, collaborating with research teams, and guiding technical decisions for scalability and robustness. |
| ShipPost-train |
| 9 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Codex This role focuses on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by acting as a technical partner, guiding engineering teams in integrating Codex into their projects and workflows. The engineer will design, validate, and scale AI workflows, build demos and integrations, lead workshops, and contribute technical content. The role blends technical architecture, product strategy, and customer-facing leadership, aiming to accelerate the deployment of intelligent coding systems. | Ship | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - NYC 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 value and feedback loops to improve product and model roadmaps. The role requires contributing code, codifying patterns, and sharing field insights. | ShipServe | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF This role focuses on leading end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models for strategic customers, bridging customer needs with core platform development. The FDE will own the entire delivery lifecycle, from discovery and scoping to system design, build, and production rollout, ensuring measurable workflow impact and gathering feedback to influence product and model roadmaps. The role involves building full-stack systems, embedding with customer teams, and contributing code directly when necessary, with a strong emphasis on making trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality. | ShipAgent | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Applied AI Engineering Research Engineer role focused on deploying and optimizing advanced ML models into production, transforming research into real-world applications. Involves collaboration, scaling data pipelines, and ensuring model performance and maintenance. | ShipServe | 9 |
| TLM, Embedded Experiences Technical Lead Manager to lead a team of engineers building AI-native embedded experiences and operations-forward systems, driving business outcomes, architecture, and technical strategy for complex systems, contributing to implementation, and growing a high-performing team. Partners closely with internal stakeholders to understand operational challenges, identify high-leverage opportunities for automation, and deliver solutions that create measurable impact. | Ship | 8 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen Full Stack Engineer for the Image Generation team at OpenAI, focusing on building and shipping end-to-end product experiences for image generation and editing within ChatGPT. This role involves working across the entire stack, from frontend UIs to backend services and orchestration systems, to bring multimodal AI advancements to millions of users. | Ship | 8 |
| Backend Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen Backend Engineer for OpenAI's ChatGPT Image Generation team, focusing on building and operating scalable backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure for image creation and editing using multimodal AI models. The role involves optimizing performance, reliability, and cost, partnering with research and product teams, and driving technical architecture decisions for large-scale distributed systems. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors This role focuses on deploying AI systems to semiconductor customers, owning the end-to-end delivery process from scoping to adoption. The Technical Deployment Lead will translate customer needs into technical plans, manage execution across teams, and ensure deployments deliver measurable value and become critical to customer workflows. The role requires deep expertise in semiconductor workflows and experience shipping AI/LLM systems. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Digital Natives Manage a team of AI Deployment Engineers focused on ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for technology and software companies, driving them to production and increasing API adoption. | Ship | 8 |
| Robotics Software Engineer Robotics Software Engineer to expand data collection and evaluation program, integrating hardware and software for robotic systems. Involves designing, implementing, and optimizing software, developing control interfaces, and creating automation tools for policy evaluation. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Startups Lead and scale the Startups AI Deployment Engineering team to help high-growth startups move from experimentation to production with OpenAI's technologies. This role involves team leadership, technical depth, customer prioritization, and cross-functional influence, focusing on defining how OpenAI supports startup customers at scale. | Ship | 8 |
| Technical Deployment Lead, Life Sciences This role focuses on deploying complex AI systems, specifically for the Life Sciences vertical (pharmaceuticals, CROs), to customers. The Technical Deployment Lead will own the end-to-end delivery process, from defining technical plans and managing execution with internal teams (FDEs, Researchers) and customer teams, to ensuring adoption and measuring impact. The role requires translating business outcomes into technical plans, managing dependencies, and driving prototypes through MVP and scale, with a strong emphasis on customer value and adoption. | Ship | 8 |
| AI Deployment Engineer- Codex AI Deployment Engineer for OpenAI's Codex, focusing on customer adoption of coding tools, designing and implementing AI-enhanced development workflows, building demos and integrations, and providing technical enablement and content. | Ship | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |