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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Product Manager, Integrity Product Manager for OpenAI's Integrity team, focusing on scaling product efforts and technical strategy to combat scaled abuse and novel misuse of AI services like ChatGPT, API, and Sora. Requires close collaboration with product, safety, policy, operations, and engineering teams to build tooling and infrastructure for detection and prevention of policy violations. | Agent | 7 |