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Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations
OpenAI
We are seeking exceptional researchers to push the frontier of safety mitigations for increasingly capable AI models. You will help derisk frontier models by developing novel safety mitigations and applying new techniques from domains like interpretability, control, and alignment. This role is critical in defining the future of safe AI systems at OpenAI and significantly impacting our mission to build and deploy safe AGI. The position requires strong technical depth and close cross-functional collaboration to ensure safety mitigations are enforceable, scalable, and effective, partnering with experts across misalignment, cybersecurity, and biology to develop a comprehensive safety stack.
Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety
OpenAI
OpenAI is seeking strong technical executors to join the Preparedness team, focusing on mitigating frontier risks associated with accelerated AI development, including recursive self-improvement. This role involves anticipating future misalignment risks and developing strategic solutions. Responsibilities span designing and implementing pre-deployment risk assessments, control measures, training interventions, and translating technical work into institutional practices and external communications. The work is urgent, fast-paced, and has significant implications for the future of AI development and society.
Data Scientist, B2B Demand Generation, Growth & Measurement
OpenAI
We are hiring a Data Scientist to lead measurement, experimentation, and decision science for B2B marketing demand generation. You will help us understand which marketing investments create incremental demand, qualified pipeline, and revenue and how to scale them efficiently. Our mandate is to build a rigorous, full-funnel view of how B2B marketing creates demand and moves prospects from awareness and engagement to qualified opportunities, closed-won revenue, and expansion. You will shape how we measure marketing impact and influence across channels, campaigns, audiences, and account segments. In this role, you will partner closely with B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, Growth, Sales, RevOps, Finance to connect marketing activity to qualified pipeline, customer acquisition, and efficient revenue growth.
Product Designer, Engineering Acceleration
OpenAI
OpenAI's Engineering Acceleration team is seeking a Product Designer to lead design for two key product areas: a real-time data exploration and observability experience for investigating large-scale system and product behavior, and an experimentation platform for safely launching changes and measuring their impact. This role involves defining interaction models that guide users from vague questions to clear answers and actionable steps. You will collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, data scientists, and product teams to make complex technical systems coherent and understandable. Additionally, you will help establish consistency across OpenAI's enterprise and internal tools by developing durable patterns for AI-native workflows, enabling other designers to build more effectively.
Product Designer, Payments
OpenAI
OpenAI's Payments team is building the financial infrastructure that makes our products accessible to consumers and enterprises globally. This role will lead design for one of our most foundational product areas: the payments and monetization infrastructure. You will partner closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to shape how customers understand, manage, and pay for entirely new kinds of AI usage. Your work will extend beyond traditional checkout and billing, helping to define systems, frameworks, and experiences for durable pay-as-you-go models, Codex usage, and agentic workflows. As a product designer in a highly ambiguous and rapidly evolving space, you will influence both product strategy and the underlying infrastructure that OpenAI products depend on.
Support Vendor Manager
OpenAI
As a Support Vendor Manager, you will own the health, performance, and long-term scalability of multiple support partner and vendor relationships. This is a vendor leadership role focused on driving commercial and operational accountability, while also building the operating model that enables support to scale without linear headcount growth. You will collaborate closely with User Operations teams, Systems/Tooling, Data partners, and Product/PM stakeholders as we launch new workflows and scale new programs. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and utilizes a hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week. Occasional travel may be required.
Contract Management Lead (Procurement)
OpenAI
OpenAI is seeking a strategic builder-operator to establish an AI-led contracting capability that improves speed, consistency, and execution across the company. In this role, you will partner with leaders and stakeholders across Procurement, Legal, Finance, Security, Engineering, and business teams to design and oversee the contracting process from intake through negotiation and lifecycle management. You will bring structure to ambiguity, align partners around shared priorities, and build repeatable operating mechanisms, responsible AI-assisted workflows, and a centralized contract lifecycle management (CLM) system of record. As a Contract Management Lead, you will build, lead, and continuously improve OpenAI’s AI-led contracting help desk—a new capability designed to scale contract drafting, review, negotiation, and lifecycle management without significantly increasing headcount. You will own the service strategy, operating model, delivery oversight, coordinator enablement, workflow design, and performance tracking.
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - NYC
OpenAI
OpenAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to lead end-to-end deployments of AI models within healthcare organizations. This role involves technical discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, productionization, and handoff, translating complex customer workflows, data, infrastructure, and regulatory constraints into production AI systems. You will measure success through production adoption and measurable workflow impact, collaborating directly with customer technical teams and internal partners to deliver solutions and drive product improvements. This position focuses on the technical solution ownership within healthcare settings.
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - Seattle
OpenAI
OpenAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to lead end-to-end deployments of AI models within healthcare organizations. This role involves technical discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and productionization of AI systems tailored to complex customer workflows, data, infrastructure, and regulatory constraints. You will collaborate closely with customer technical teams and internal partners to deliver solutions and translate deployment learnings into product improvements, measuring success through production adoption and measurable workflow impact. This position owns the technical solution and is based in Seattle.
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SF
OpenAI
OpenAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to lead end-to-end deployments of AI models within healthcare organizations. This role involves partnering with customers to integrate AI systems into clinical, operational, and member-facing workflows, translating complex requirements into production-ready solutions. You will own the technical discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and handoff, measuring success through production adoption and measurable workflow impact. This position requires close collaboration with customer technical teams and internal OpenAI partners, with a focus on delivering solutions and driving product improvements based on deployment learnings. The role is based in San Francisco and requires a hybrid work model.
Software Engineer, API Enterprise Controls
OpenAI
We are seeking an exceptional backend software engineer to help define and ship the enterprise capabilities our API Platform needs to scale. This is a product-engineering role grounded in deep backend systems, where you will work across databases, streaming systems, request routing, authentication, and developer-facing APIs. You will bring strong product judgment, developer empathy, and attention to detail to make the platform easier to understand, trust, and operate. In this role, you will lead large cross-functional initiatives, work closely with Product and go-to-market teams, engage directly with sophisticated users, and carry ambiguous needs from discovery through design, launch, and iteration.
Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Large Enterprise)
OpenAI
We are seeking an Applied AI Engineering leader to ensure the technical success of our most strategic Large Enterprise customers across EMEA. In this role, you will manage the entire implementation journey, ensuring seamless platform integration. As the voice of our customers, you will align technical teams to deliver a consistent and exceptional experience throughout the customer lifecycle. Success will be measured by live production applications, increased API adoption, and impactful customer stories that demonstrate the value of our technology. This role is open in both our London and Munich offices.
Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI
OpenAI
The Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) team at OpenAI is dedicated to building AI systems that accelerate and conduct high-quality research. This involves automating real research workflows, improving research productivity through systems and feedback loops, designing evaluations, and training models to develop missing capabilities. The work spans the full lifecycle of model training, evaluation, and deployment to enable researchers to tackle increasingly ambitious problems. This is a high-ownership role for individuals who thrive in ambiguity, move fluidly between research and implementation, and transform emerging opportunities into rigorous, reliable, and scalable results.
Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability
OpenAI
OpenAI is seeking a Researcher focused on Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Monitorability to join their Alignment team. This role involves studying and improving the monitorability of frontier reasoning models, particularly their chain-of-thought processes, to enable scalable oversight. The team's work is crucial for ensuring AI safety and trustworthiness as models become more capable. You will design and execute experiments to understand how various training interventions impact monitorability, develop evaluation methods to measure it, and translate research findings into practical recommendations for monitoring and training. This position is ideal for someone who can bridge ambiguous research questions with concrete experimental designs, moving from hypothesis formulation to analysis and actionable insights.
Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Education & Learning
OpenAI
The ChatGPT Learning team is focused on building the next generation of learning experiences within ChatGPT, aiming to evolve the platform into a tool that helps users learn, grow, and make progress over time. This role involves designing and building new product experiences that enable millions of people to learn with ChatGPT, working across the full stack from user interfaces to backend services. You will collaborate closely with researchers and platform teams to integrate cutting-edge AI capabilities into user-facing products, translating AI advancements into everyday learning tools. We are seeking engineers who excel at creating polished product experiences, take ownership, and thrive on solving complex problems at the intersection of AI research and consumer software.
Field Engineer
OpenAI
OpenAI Robotics is seeking a Field Engineer to ensure the technical health of robotic workcells used in ongoing data acquisition operations. This role involves diagnosing and resolving hardware and software failures, and building practical tools, documentation, and support workflows to enhance operator and technician effectiveness. The position is ideal for someone who is practical, technically sharp, calm under pressure, and motivated by making real systems work reliably at scale, sitting at the intersection of software, robotics hardware, and live operations.
Applied AI Engineer, Startups
OpenAI
We are seeking a technically proficient, business-minded Applied AI Engineer to help push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers. You'll work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world, guiding them through ideation, development, delivery, and scaling to accelerate and maximize the value of what they build on our platform. You will have the opportunity to work on the most novel and creative use cases being built on our API, serving as a critical partner in collecting and delivering high-fidelity product and model feedback internally. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, and you will report to the Startups Applied AI Lead.
Program Manager, Critical Harm Operations
OpenAI
OpenAI is seeking an exceptional Program Manager to join the Critical Harm Operations team. This role is crucial for building durable operating systems and managing some of OpenAI's most complex safety operations. The ideal candidate is a high-agency operator capable of tackling ambiguous problems, establishing structure, aligning cross-functional partners, and driving execution. This position offers the opportunity to work across evolving Critical Harm priorities, potentially involving national security, violent activities, wellbeing initiatives, or scaling programs like Trusted Access. While deep domain expertise is helpful, the strongest candidates will demonstrate rapid learning, excellent judgment, and the ability to advance complex programs.
Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks
OpenAI
As a Researcher for cybersecurity risks, you will help design and implement an end-to-end mitigation stack to reduce severe cyber misuse across OpenAI’s products. This role requires strong technical depth and close cross-functional collaboration to ensure safeguards are enforceable, scalable, and effective. You’ll contribute directly to building protections that remain robust as products, model capabilities, and attacker behaviors evolve. Models are becoming increasingly capable—moving from tools that assist humans to agents that can plan, execute, and adapt in the real world. As we push toward AGI, cybersecurity becomes one of the most important and urgent frontiers: the same systems that can accelerate productivity can also accelerate exploitation.
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization
OpenAI
The Personalization-Memory team at OpenAI is focused on developing agents that learn from past interactions to become more helpful and efficient. This role involves researching and developing improvements to memory usage and personalization in frontier models, working on reinforcement learning, dataset creation, evaluations, and post-training methods. The team collaborates with research and product teams across the company to realize the vision of a personalized ChatGPT. We are seeking individuals passionate about product-driven research with a background in frontier model post-training and the ability to iterate quickly.