Jobs at OpenAI

Software Engineers at OpenAI will blend production-ready platform architecture with new technologies. They will own the end-to-end development lifecycle for new platform capabilities and integrations, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement effective solutions for internal and external customers.

Software Engineer, API Multicloud at OpenAI is a remote role focused on designing, building, and operating systems that run OpenAI's API across cloud service provider platforms. The role involves configuring model-serving environments, planning capacity, and ensuring reliable production services.

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their multimodal API product suite. This role involves building and mentoring an engineering team focused on image generation and real-time multimodal interactions, owning the product roadmap, and collaborating with research teams to improve core multimodal models for API customers.

Software Engineer, Collective Communication at OpenAI will design and implement custom networking collectives integrated into their training stack. This role involves collaborating with ML researchers to create efficient collective operations using C++ and CUDA, ensuring optimal utilization of supercomputer network transports, and working on simulations for future network designs.

Software Engineer at OpenAI working on the Habitat online data platform. This role involves designing and building core abstractions for storage, caching, routing, and privacy enforcement, with end-to-end ownership of major system components. The engineer will focus on improving latency, correctness, and cost efficiency for high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads at massive scale.

As an Applied AI Engineer at OpenAI, you will partner with leading organizations to design, build, and deploy AI systems that deliver measurable business outcomes. This role involves hands-on coding, building evaluation systems, resolving complex integrations, and guiding decisions on model behavior, reliability, latency, cost, safety, security, governance, and operational readiness.

Software Engineer, Developer Productivity at OpenAI will drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes to accelerate engineering velocity and reduce manual effort. This role involves using AI tools to enhance team productivity and partnering with product engineers to lay technical foundations for new features.

Research Engineer / Scientist at OpenAI focused on the Personal AGI team. This role involves researching and developing improvements to pre-trained models for deployment in products like ChatGPT, with a focus on product-driven research combining reinforcement learning and product applications. Responsibilities include owning a research agenda, collaborating with other teams, building evaluations, and debugging code.

Industry Product Marketing Manager at OpenAI responsible for defining how OpenAI brings frontier AI to priority industries like Life Sciences, Banking, or Healthcare. This role involves shaping market narratives, building field-facing strategies, and coordinating cross-functional execution for product launches and customer engagement.

Research Engineer at OpenAI responsible for building AI systems capable of performing novel tasks or achieving high performance. Requires strong engineering skills in designing and implementing large-scale distributed machine learning systems, writing bug-free ML code, and contributing to the science behind algorithms.

Senior Support Engineer at OpenAI, focused on providing technical guidance and resolving complex issues for strategic enterprise accounts. This role involves designing operational processes, monitoring top customers, and acting as a final escalation point before the core engineering team.

Full Stack Engineer, Intelligence Systems at OpenAI will build systems to support risk assessment and investigation of AI models. This role involves designing, prototyping, shipping, and maintaining end-to-end products that process complex information environments to identify risks and inform decisions.

Partner Applied AI Engineer at OpenAI, a founding role focused on technical engagements with systems integrators and their strategic customers. The role involves identifying high-value GenAI use cases, providing technical enablement, and driving AI solutions from prototype to production.

Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering at OpenAI in New York City. This role leads a team responsible for customer deployments of frontier models, owning technical and business outcomes. The manager partners with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to ensure field insights inform product roadmaps and safe deployment at scale.

Research Scientist at OpenAI focused on developing innovative machine learning techniques and advancing the research agenda. Requires a track record of new ideas in machine learning, ability to own and pursue a research agenda, and excitement about OpenAI's research approach.

OpenAI is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager for Data Center Infrastructure, focusing on mechanical systems. This role involves developing commercial strategies, negotiating supplier agreements, and managing relationships with partners to ensure reliable access to equipment and materials for hyperscale AI campuses.

Software Engineer on the Frontier Systems team at OpenAI focused on power management. This role involves developing and implementing system-level and software-level solutions to optimize power usage in large-scale supercomputers, building automation for monitoring and stabilization, and collaborating with researchers and engineers on power-related fault detection and remediation.

OpenAI is hiring a Research Program Manager, Data Acquisition to join their Research Data Team. This role involves partnering with research, engineering, and operations to design and implement pragmatic solutions for acquiring data, shaping the data acquisition pipeline, and driving technical roadmaps.

Software Engineer, Compute - Storage at OpenAI. This is a hands-on infrastructure role focused on building and operating the storage platform that powers OpenAI's research and production systems. Responsibilities include developing object storage systems, managing cross-region data movement, and evolving the federation layer.

OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer for their Compute Foundations Systems team. This role focuses on building and maintaining the operating-system foundation for large GPU clusters, including Linux host software, kernels, drivers, and firmware integration. The engineer will work with hardware and infrastructure teams to bring up new platforms and resolve system-level issues.

Software Engineer, Operating Systems & Orchestration at OpenAI will focus on building systems to manage hardware, configurations, vendors, and users interacting with their infrastructure. This role involves designing and developing solutions to integrate nodes and servers into unified clusters, automating infrastructure processes, and leveraging LLMs to optimize workflows.

Research Engineer on the Codex team at OpenAI. This role focuses on improving the capabilities, reliability, and product fit of OpenAI's agentic models, including those powering Codex and ChatGPT. Responsibilities involve research, engineering, data, evals, and product integration for models that act in the world.

OpenAI is seeking a Hardware Strategic Sourcing Manager, Optics to lead sourcing strategy and supplier partnerships for fiber and optical interconnect components. This role involves developing and executing sourcing strategies for various optical components and services, working with cross-functional teams to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability.

This is a mid-level AI Support Engineer role at OpenAI. The engineer will troubleshoot complex technical issues for customers using OpenAI's AI products, provide technical guidance, and help define the future of post-AGI support by partnering with engineering and product teams.

Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity at OpenAI is an interdisciplinary role mixing data science, machine learning, investigation, and policy/protocol development. The role involves designing and building systems to proactively identify and enforce on abuse on OpenAI's products, including monitoring new and existing products, and responding to critical escalations.

OpenAI is hiring a Senior Support Engineer in Dublin, Ireland. This role involves collaborating with strategic enterprise accounts and product teams to solve complex customer issues, acting as a primary technical expert for the API platform. The position requires designing and running operational processes for customer monitoring and a 24x7 response team, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office.

Researcher at OpenAI focused on LLM architecture development. This role involves designing, prototyping, and scaling new architectures to enhance model intelligence, efficiency, and capabilities. Responsibilities include executing and analyzing experiments, debugging and optimizing model and computational performance, and contributing to training and inference infrastructure.

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in Tokyo. This role involves leading end-to-end deployments of frontier models with strategic customers, focusing on discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout. Success is measured by production adoption, workflow impact, and feedback influencing product roadmaps.

Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations at OpenAI will develop and enhance systems to detect and prevent various forms of abuse, including financial fraud, botting, and scripting. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect against adversarial attacks and assisting with incident response and tooling development.

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Researcher for their Safety Oversight team. This role involves advancing capabilities for maintaining oversight over frontier AI models, identifying and mitigating AI misuse and misalignment, and defining the future of safe AI systems at OpenAI.

Full Stack Software Engineer for OpenAI's government sector initiatives. This role involves end-to-end development of customer-facing ChatGPT and API features for public sector clients, working both on-premises and in the cloud. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product scalability, reliability, and compliance within unique government constraints.

Analytics Engineer for OpenAI's Go-to-Market organization. This full-stack data role involves data modeling, metric definition, visualization, analysis, and self-service tooling to build data products and provide actionable insights for GTM teams.

Software Engineer on the Agent Infrastructure team at OpenAI. This role involves building and scaling systems for training and deploying AI agents, working with researchers and product teams. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure for complex agentic models and maintaining the production platform for agent execution.

OpenAI is seeking a Product Manufacturing Engineer focused on PCB and PCBA manufacturing and process. This role involves driving technical initiatives from concept to mass production, collaborating with design, operations, TPMs, and external vendors to ensure product quality and timely delivery.

OpenAI is hiring a Senior Account Director, Digital Natives to manage customer accounts, drive opportunities through the sales cycle, and own revenue targets. This role involves developing account strategies, supporting customer deployments, and collaborating with internal teams to deliver AI solutions.

OpenAI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack for their People Innovation Labs team. This role focuses on building software for HR, culture, and recruiting, leveraging LLMs to improve talent acquisition and retention. The engineer will own the full product development lifecycle, collaborate with internal stakeholders, and work with research teams to apply AI models.

Software Engineer, Observability at OpenAI. This role involves building the company's observability product, including scalable infrastructure and an AI-powered UI. Responsibilities include owning core observability infrastructure like distributed logging and time series storage, and developing AI-native tools for issue detection and resolution.

Software Engineer on the Hardware Health and Observability team at OpenAI. This role focuses on building critical infrastructure to maintain the health and operational status of OpenAI's global compute fleet, ensuring reliability for large-scale training and inference workloads.

Applied AI Engineer focused on Codex for startups at OpenAI. This role involves partnering with startups to integrate AI coding tools, leading technical talks and workshops, and building reusable resources. The engineer will translate startup use cases into actionable feedback for OpenAI's product and research teams.

ML Framework Engineer at OpenAI focused on improving the training throughput of their internal ML training framework. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing AI models, writing machine learning code, and understanding supercomputer performance to accelerate researcher experimentation and push the field forward.

Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI for Government, a hybrid role based in Washington DC, Seattle, or San Francisco. This position involves leading complex deployments of frontier AI models for government and public sector customers, building full-stack solutions, and acting as a technical thought partner to guide adoption and maximize mission impact.

Applied AI Engineer focused on Codex for startups at OpenAI. This role involves partnering with startups to integrate AI coding tools, leading technical talks and workshops, and building reusable resources. The engineer will translate startup use cases into actionable feedback for OpenAI's product and research teams.

Senior Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer at OpenAI responsible for defining, validating, and scaling electrical power systems for high-density AI compute. This role involves translating compute requirements into facility and rack-power architectures, evaluating new technologies, and driving technical decisions across the entire lifecycle of data center infrastructure.

Security Engineer on the Agent Security Team at OpenAI. This role involves designing and implementing security frameworks, policies, and controls for agentic AI systems, developing threat models, and enhancing safety monitoring pipelines.

Security Engineer, Application Security at OpenAI. This role involves identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in software applications through code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. The engineer will also develop security tools and collaborate with development teams to integrate secure coding practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

As a Technical Threat Investigator at OpenAI, you will conduct complex, end-to-end investigations into sophisticated threat actors targeting OpenAI's models, products, and ecosystem. You will analyze attacker behavior, infrastructure, and techniques, and build tooling and automated workflows to enhance investigation efficiency and impact.

Software Engineer on the Accelerators team at OpenAI, focusing on evaluating and bringing up new compute platforms for large-scale AI training and inference. Responsibilities include prototyping system software, optimizing performance across AI workloads, and working across the stack on kernels, sharding strategies, and distributed systems.

OpenAI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for their Youth Well-Being product team. This role focuses on architecting and building foundational systems for family- and youth-facing AI experiences, ensuring safety, age-appropriateness, and regulatory compliance.

Software Engineer on the Fleet HPC team at OpenAI responsible for the reliability and uptime of the company's compute fleet. This role involves building and maintaining automation systems for server provisioning and management, developing tools for server health monitoring, and collaborating with various infrastructure teams to ensure high availability and efficiency of supercomputing infrastructure.

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure at OpenAI will build and operate foundational data platforms. This role involves scaling big data compute and storage, supporting high-throughput streaming systems, and enabling secure data access for ML and analytics, with full lifecycle ownership from architecture to on-call participation.

OpenAI is hiring a Robotics Software Engineer to expand their robotics data collection and evaluation program. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing software solutions for diverse robotics hardware, working closely with multidisciplinary teams. The position requires 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in robotics or hardware-integrated environments and is based in San Francisco, CA, requiring in-person work 4 days a week.

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development of data pipelines and core tables for their Applied team. This role involves integrating user event data, developing canonical datasets for product metrics, and collaborating with various departments to ensure data integrity and compliance.

OpenAI is seeking a Supply Chain Operations Program Manager for their AI Infrastructure team. This role is responsible for leading new hardware introductions and production ramps for AI infrastructure systems, focusing on operational readiness from bring-up through sustained production.

OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer for Resilience Engineering to ensure their systems scale and are performant and reliable. The role involves designing and implementing solutions for infrastructure scalability, building and maintaining testing software, automation tools, and platform for resource lifecycle management, and implementing fault-tolerant design patterns.

Research Engineer/Scientist on the Alignment team at OpenAI. This role focuses on ensuring AI systems are safe, trustworthy, and aligned with human values by designing and implementing scalable solutions and integrating human oversight into AI decision-making.

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Privacy & Compliance to architect and build backend systems for data privacy enforcement and compliance automation. The role involves designing and operating services for policy-driven data access, lifecycle controls, and privacy protections, integrating with product, infrastructure, security, and legal teams.

Applied AI Engineer focused on Codex at OpenAI. This role involves partnering with engineering organizations to design, build, and deploy AI systems that transform software development, utilizing Codex in the process. Success is measured by production systems and sustained developer adoption.

Senior Electrical Engineer for OpenAI's Robotics team, focusing on developing next-generation robotic systems. This role involves the full hardware development lifecycle, from concept to deployment, requiring close collaboration with cross-functional teams and independent execution of hardware efforts.

Software Engineer, Research on the Human Data team at OpenAI. This role involves building and maintaining full-stack systems for feedback collection, data labeling, and evaluation pipelines. The engineer will translate research into production infrastructure, design user-facing tools and backend services, and partner with researchers to shape model training and interaction.

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Design Verification Engineer to ensure the functional correctness of custom ML accelerators. This role involves owning the verification of IP blocks, subsystems, or full SoCs, defining verification plans, and developing testbenches using SystemVerilog/UVM.

This is a Senior Applied AI Architect role at OpenAI, focused on digital natives. The architect will be the senior technical owner for a portfolio of customers, shaping their AI strategy and guiding them from discovery through production adoption.

This is a Senior Applied AI Architect role at OpenAI focused on the Retail sector. The architect will be the senior technical owner for a portfolio of retail customers, shaping their AI strategy and guiding them from pre-sales to production adoption using OpenAI's models.

Senior Android Engineer on OpenAI's Applied Foundations team. This role involves building core mobile experiences for user sign-up, account management, payments, and safety across OpenAI products. The engineer will own client-side systems and collaborate with backend, product, and safety teams.

This role is for a mid to senior Data Center Controls Network Engineer at OpenAI. The engineer will design, validate, and scale OT network architectures for high-density AI data centers, focusing on controls systems, industrial networking, and network operations.

Applied AI Engineer focused on Codex at OpenAI. This role involves partnering with engineering organizations to design, build, and deploy AI systems that transform software development, utilizing Codex in the process. Success is measured by production systems and sustained developer adoption.

As a Training Performance Engineer at OpenAI, you will drive efficiency improvements across the distributed training stack. You will analyze large-scale training runs, identify utilization gaps, and design optimizations for throughput and uptime, focusing on GPU kernel performance, collective communication, and I/O bottlenecks.

Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform at OpenAI to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models. Responsibilities include setting technical roadmaps, building production systems, and partnering with Research and Product.

Senior iOS Engineer on OpenAI's Applied Foundations team. This role focuses on building core mobile experiences for user sign-up, account management, payments, and safety, as well as developing reusable iOS foundations for other OpenAI apps. Responsibilities include optimizing performance, designing shared frameworks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This role is for a Systems Generalist on the GPT Infrastructure team at OpenAI. The individual will help build an automated inference optimization platform, designing both the control plane and partner-side software for evaluating candidates on hardware. The work involves distributed systems, AI inference, compilers, runtimes, performance engineering, and security.

As a Senior Account Director in Healthcare at OpenAI, you will manage executive-level relationships with leading healthcare organizations to deploy AI technology. This role involves enterprise sales, technical depth, business acumen, and collaboration with researchers and engineers to design AI deployments.

OpenAI is seeking a Signal Integrity Engineer to lead system SI design for AI supercomputer products in data center applications. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, identifying and evaluating new technologies, performing simulations, and leading system interconnect design, bring-up, and qualification.

OpenAI is seeking a Security Software Engineer for their Infrastructure Security team. This role involves designing and building foundational security services like authentication systems, proxies, and key management platforms for their GPU supercomputing clusters and multi-cloud infrastructure.

OpenAI is hiring for Administrative Business Partner / Executive Business Partner roles. This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model requiring 3 days in the office per week. The role involves managing complex calendars, coordinating meetings, and planning domestic and international travel.

Senior Applied AI Architect at OpenAI, responsible for the technical strategy and customer journey for a portfolio of clients. This role involves guiding customers from pre-sales to production adoption of AI solutions, acting as a technical advisor and owner of the technical account plan.

This is a Strategic Finance role at OpenAI focused on the compute and infrastructure portfolio. The role involves financial planning, forecasting, close processes, and variance analysis for the company's largest cost center. Responsibilities include building financial models for compute elements and supporting investment analysis.

Client Partner, Ads Solutions at OpenAI. This role focuses on driving new and expanded advertising revenue and ensuring successful business results for advertisers. Responsibilities include owning the full sales cycle, developing long-term commercial partnerships, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve revenue growth and advertiser success.

Senior Applied AI Architect at OpenAI, responsible for guiding large enterprise customers in leveraging OpenAI's AI models. This role involves shaping customer AI strategy, managing technical account plans, and driving solutions from exploration to production adoption.

Applied AI Engineer on the Codex team at OpenAI. This role partners with customers to integrate OpenAI's coding tools into their software development lifecycle, acting as a technical expert to design and scale AI workflows. Responsibilities include prototyping, building demos, and leading enablement sessions.

Solutions Engineer, Ads Solutions at OpenAI in San Francisco. This role partners with advertisers and agencies throughout the pre-sales and growth lifecycle, acting as the technical expert to translate advertiser objectives into scalable technical solutions for measurement, integrations, data activation, and campaign execution.

OpenAI is hiring a Federal Account Director for National Security. This senior sales role focuses on the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Communities, requiring technical understanding and strategic vision to drive AI adoption and manage key accounts. The position is based in Washington DC with a hybrid work model.

OpenAI is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to lead global-scale sourcing and supplier engagements for AI compute infrastructure. This role will drive commercial strategy and supplier accountability for server platforms, accelerators, rack systems, and associated thermal & power delivery components, enabling faster and more efficient compute deployment.

Software Engineer, Delivery / Cd at OpenAI builds and operates systems for safely shipping code to production. This role involves designing and building continuous deployment infrastructure, developing progressive delivery systems, and improving engineering velocity through automation.

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Asic Firmware Engineer, Modeling to design and develop firmware and modeling software for their in-house AI accelerators. This role involves creating drivers, functional models, and low-latency embedded software, as well as debugging hardware and system issues.

Senior and Staff Software Engineers are needed to design and build infrastructure systems for ChatGPT. This platform-building role involves defining interfaces, developing core abstractions, and creating tooling to enable safe and fast iteration, reduce friction, prevent regressions, improve performance, and ensure systems scale gracefully.

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Systems to design and validate mechanical and thermal systems for AI supercomputer products in data center applications. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams on thermal solutions, integrating thermal management, and performing analysis and prototyping for mission-critical hardware.

Full-stack Engineer on the ChatGPT Learning team at OpenAI. This role involves building end-to-end product experiences for learning within ChatGPT, working across user interfaces and backend services. The engineer will collaborate with researchers to integrate AI model capabilities into user-facing products.

OpenAI is seeking an Operating Systems Engineer for their Consumer Devices team to build and harden OS foundations for AI-powered physical products. The role involves working across the OS kernel, core services, security, privacy, performance, and power management, with a focus on deep debugging and systems ownership from development through production.

OpenAI is hiring a Lifecycle Lead for their Growth team. This senior, hands-on leader will build the company-wide owned-channel capability to reach businesses with relevant experiences, setting the SMB lifecycle strategy and partnering with Engineering to build the orchestration platform.

OpenAI is seeking a System Software Engineer for their Consumer Devices team. This role involves designing, implementing, and debugging core platform components and system image pipelines across operating system layers, focusing on performance, security, and deep system debugging for production-grade systems.