OpenAI
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Forward Deployed Engineer - Stockholm This role focuses on deploying OpenAI's frontier AI models into production systems for strategic customers, involving end-to-end ownership from discovery and design to rollout and adoption. The engineer will build full-stack systems, contribute code, and codify working patterns into reusable tools, with success measured by production adoption, workflow impact, and feedback that influences product and model roadmaps. The role requires strong engineering and deployment experience, particularly with LLMs or generative models, and the ability to manage complex projects in ambiguous environments. | ShipAgent | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - Madrid This role focuses on deploying OpenAI's frontier AI models into production systems for strategic customers, leading the entire process from discovery and scoping to system design, build, and rollout. The engineer will work on full-stack systems, embed with customer teams, and contribute to product and model roadmaps through feedback and evaluations. The role requires strong engineering and deployment experience, particularly with LLMs, and the ability to manage complex projects in ambiguous environments. |
| ShipServe |
| 9 |
| 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 |
| Manager, AI Deployment Engineering - Codex Manager for AI Deployment Engineering focused on the Codex product, responsible for leading a team that helps customers integrate and scale AI coding tools into their software development lifecycle. The role involves technical leadership, customer engagement strategy, and partnering with product and research teams to drive adoption and gather feedback. | Ship | 9 |
| Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Munich Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering team responsible for partnering with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems using frontier models. The role involves leading and growing a team, owning end-to-end delivery outcomes, and ensuring fieldwork informs roadmap priorities and supports safe deployment at scale. Requires strong leadership, technical project management, and experience with production-grade code. | ShipServe | 9 |
| Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - London Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering team responsible for partnering with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems, owning end-to-end delivery outcomes, and informing roadmap priorities through fieldwork. Requires experience managing customer-facing engineers and leading high-pressure technical projects. | Ship | 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 |
| Technical Deployment Lead - Tokyo This role is a founding Technical Deployment Lead at OpenAI, focused on partnering with customers to deliver complex AI systems. The role involves defining delivery processes, translating business needs into technical plans, managing execution across engineering and research teams, and ensuring customer adoption and value realization. It requires deep technical project management, ownership, and the ability to work in ambiguous, high-autonomy environments, with a focus on shipping AI/LLM systems to customers and codifying reusable patterns from field insights. | Ship | 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 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - UAE This role focuses on leading complex deployments of frontier AI models in production environments, partnering with customers to solve high-leverage problems. The engineer will build full-stack solutions, scope and sequence delivery, and ensure technical success from prototype to stable production, influencing the product roadmap with field feedback. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineer Solutions Engineer role focused on post-sale customer engagement to ensure they realize business value from OpenAI technologies. This involves designing and deploying GenAI solutions, providing architectural guidance, building prototypes, and advising on scaling solutions in production. The role works closely with customers' technical teams and internal OpenAI teams (Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, Product). | ShipAgent | 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 |
| Technical Deployment Lead - Sydney Founding role in Sydney for a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) on the Forward Deployed Engineering team. The TDL will define how OpenAI delivers complex AI systems to customers, owning their build, shipment, and adoption. This involves translating business outcomes into technical plans, managing day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partnering with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. The role requires deep technical project management expertise, ownership of outcomes, and the ability to immerse in customer workflows to solve complex engineering problems at pace. Success is measured by customer impact, adoption, delivery reliability, and operating leverage. | 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 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the deployment and scaling of OpenAI's Generative AI applications through a strategic partnership with AWS. The engineer will act as a senior technical advisor to AWS field leadership, guiding customers from ideation to production, and enabling AWS partners to independently drive deployments. Responsibilities include shaping strategy, designing end-to-end AI architectures, building prototypes, establishing best practices, and enabling the AWS ecosystem through workshops and reusable assets. The role requires strong technical leadership, strategic influence, and the ability to build repeatable systems for scaled adoption. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Manager, AI Deployment Engineering - Codex Manager for AI Deployment Engineering focused on the Codex product, responsible for leading a team that helps customers integrate and scale AI coding tools into their software development lifecycle. The role involves technical leadership, customer engagement strategy, and partnering with internal teams to ensure successful production adoption and establish best practices. | 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 |
| Technical Deployment Lead - Singapore OpenAI is seeking a founding Technical Deployment Lead in Singapore to define and own the delivery of complex AI systems to customers. This role involves translating business outcomes into technical plans, managing day-to-day execution across engineering and customer teams, and ensuring successful adoption and measurable value delivery. The TDL will partner with Product and Research to guide the roadmap based on field insights and codify reusable patterns and evaluations. | 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 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - Singapore This role focuses on leading end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models in production for strategic customers, building full-stack systems, and driving adoption. It involves technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, with a strong emphasis on customer collaboration and measurable impact. | ShipAgent | 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 - Tokyo OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineer role focuses on partnering with strategic customers to deploy frontier AI models into production systems. This role involves end-to-end ownership of discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and rollout, with a strong emphasis on driving customer adoption and using evaluation feedback to influence product and model roadmaps. The position requires deep technical expertise in building full-stack systems, understanding LLM behavior, and contributing code, while also acting as a liaison between customer teams and OpenAI's internal Research and Product groups. Fluency in both Japanese and English is a mandatory requirement. | 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 |
| 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Startups Manager for AI Deployment Engineering team focused on supporting fast-moving, high-growth startup customers to move from experimentation to production with OpenAI's technologies. This role involves team leadership, technical guidance, customer strategy, and cross-functional influence to help startups realize impact from frontier AI. | 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Large Enterprise AI Deployment Engineer role focused on post-sale customer engagement to ensure safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, helping customers build and execute AI adoption strategies, identify and prioritize GenAI use cases, and guide projects from prototype to production. Responsibilities include serving as a technical subject matter expert, engaging with senior stakeholders, providing architectural guidance, building prototypes, and contributing to knowledge sharing. | Ship | 7 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises, primarily through strategic partnerships with AWS. The engineer will act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from experimentation to production-scale AI systems, shaping strategy, defining engagement models, and building repeatable systems. The role involves pre- and post-sales activities, leading technical strategy for complex engagements, designing AI architectures leveraging OpenAI and AWS services, and enabling AWS and partners through scalable technical motions. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS This role focuses on enabling the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises, primarily through a strategic partnership with AWS. The engineer will act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from experimentation to production-scale AI systems, shaping strategy, defining engagement models, and building repeatable systems. Responsibilities include leading technical strategy for large engagements, designing end-to-end AI architectures, building prototypes, and enabling AWS and partners through scalable technical motions. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Developer Experience Engineer This role focuses on empowering developers to integrate AI into their applications by creating demos, tools, and technical content showcasing OpenAI's models and APIs. It involves engaging with the developer community, representing OpenAI at events, and gathering feedback to improve products. | 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | India AI Deployment Engineer focused on helping customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools (Codex) by acting as a technical partner. The role involves designing, validating, and scaling AI workflows, building demos and integrations, leading workshops, and gathering customer feedback to influence product direction. It requires deep technical expertise in AI coding tools and the software development lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on customer-facing post-sales engineering and solutions architecture. | Ship | 7 |
| AI Success Engineer - Seoul, South Korea 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 and business needs, and influencing product development through customer feedback. | Ship | 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 |
| 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 |