OpenAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2015
- Size
- 5,000+
- Website
- openai.com
- Blog
- openai.com
Products
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| AI Deployment Engineer AI Deployment Engineer role focused on helping enterprise customers integrate and deploy Generative AI solutions using OpenAI's API, acting as a technical advisor and solutions leader to drive business value and production readiness. | ShipAgent | 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 |
| Software Engineer, Codex Ecosystem & Enterprise Software Engineer focused on building the ecosystem, enterprise capabilities, and product experiences for Codex, an AI software engineer. This role involves working across the full stack to enable deployment, operation, and trust of Codex in demanding real-world environments, including integrating with enterprise identity and governance systems, and leading customer deployments. | ShipAgent | 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 |