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About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building the world's most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. We work closely with hardware design teams, manufacturing partners, suppliers, and data center operations to deliver the compute platforms that power frontier AI. The Manufacturing Engineering team ensures our hardware can be built, tested, deployed, and supported at hyperscale. We bridge Hardware Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Contract Manufacturers, and Hardware Operations to continuously improve manufacturing performance throughout the product lifecycle. As our fleet grows globally, sustaining manufacturing engineering becomes increasingly important to maintain product quality, improve manufacturability, and rapidly resolve production issues. About the Role We are seeking a PCBA Manufacturing Engineer (Sustaining) to support production and continuous improvement of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) used throughout Industrial Compute hardware platforms. This role focuses on sustaining engineering after product launch. You'll partner closely with Hardware Design, Quality, Manufacturing, Test Engineering, Supply Chain, and our contract manufacturers to resolve production issues, improve manufacturing yield, reduce failures, implement engineering changes, and ensure stable high-volume manufacturing. The ideal candidate has experience supporting complex server, networking, accelerator, storage, or high-performance electronics manufacturing environments. Key Responsibilities Own sustaining manufacturing engineering for PCBA production across multiple hardware platforms. Drive root cause investigations for manufacturing defects, field failures, and production escapes. Partner with Hardware Design Engineers to improve manufacturability (DFM/DFA/DFT). Support engineering change orders (ECOs) and manufacturing change implementation. Work directly with contract manufacturers to improve production yield, cycle time, and quality. Analyze manuf

About the Team With Codex we’re building an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively. Our team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI, bringing together research, engineering, design, and product. We iteratively build the Codex agent harness and product to get the most out of the model, and we iteratively train the model to be great at complex software engineering tasks. The Codex team is responsible for building state-of-the-art AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non-developers alike. We operate across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure; owning the full lifecycle of experimentation, deployment, and iteration on novel coding capabilities. Codex Enterprise builds the ecosystem, governance, and enterprise capabilities that help Codex spread across developers, teams, and organizations worldwide. The User Activation team owns the product experiences that help developers discover Codex, understand its capabilities, connect it to their workflows, and turn initial usage into sustained adoption across teams. About the Role As Codex adoption grows, our challenge is no longer just building powerful AI capabilities. It is helping developers and teams quickly understand how Codex fits into their work, connect it to the tools and codebases they already use, and unlock workflows that make Codex feel like a true teammate. This role will help build the full-stack product surfaces that drive activation and adoption across Codex Enterprise. You will work across onboarding, workspace setup, integrations, discovery, collaboration, usage insights, and ecosystem capabilities that help Codex spread naturally through organizations. You will partner closely with product, design, research, infrastructure, GTM, and customers to identify where users get stuck, where teams fail to adopt Codex, and what product experiences can turn curiosity int

About the Team: OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role We are seeking a Manufacturing Test Engineer to own and drive manufacturing test strategy, development, and execution for complex AI hardware systems. This role will define and implement test coverage across the product lifecycle, including ICT, functional circuit test, tray-level functional test, and system manufacturing test. You will work closely with hardware design engineering, diagnostic/software teams, manufacturing engineering, quality, and external system integrators and suppliers to translate product requirements into robust, scalable, and production-ready test solutions. You will also play a key role in reviewing test data, debugging failures, improving yield, and ensuring manufacturing test readiness from early development through volume production. In This Role, You Will: Define and drive the manufacturing test strategy for boards, trays, and system-level hardware assemblies across EVT, DVT, PVT, and production ramp. Develop and manage test coverage for: ICT / structural test FCT / board-level functional test Tray-level functional and integration test System-level manufacturing and bring-up test Partner closely with electrical engineering, system engineering, and diagnostic/software teams to define test requirements, review manufacturing test scripts and diagnostics, validate failure isolation needs, debug hooks, logging, and production screening strategies. Translate engineering requirements into practical, scalable manufacturing test plans that

About the Team The Procurement organization enables OpenAI's mission by ensuring every dollar is spent responsibly, compliantly, and efficiently. Within Procurement, the Center of Excellence (COE) team is responsible for designing and scaling the processes, systems, governance, and operating models that enable Procurement to grow effectively alongside the business. This role partners closely with Procurement and cross-functional teams to simplify how work gets requested, routed, approved, and managed across the spend lifecycle. By combining program leadership, process design, and change enablement, we help Procurement scale while maintaining strong controls and delivering an exceptional experience for employees and business partners. About the Role As Procurement Portfolio & Delivery Lead, you will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that span Strategic Sourcing, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Extended Workforce, Travel & Expense, Corporate Card, Risk, Legal, Finance, and Technology teams. You will not only drive project and program execution, but also actively contribute to solution design, requirements development, process optimization, testing, rollout planning, and stakeholder alignment. This is a highly collaborative role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, can bring structure to ambiguity, and is equally comfortable facilitating executive discussions, building project plans, and rolling up their sleeves to help move initiatives forward. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead cross-functional procurement transformation programs spanning Strategic Sourcing, P2P, Extended Workforce, T&E, Corporate Card, Risk, and Procurement Systems. Develop and maintain the Procurement transformation roadmap, partnering across teams to identify opportunities, prioritize initiatives, map dependencies, sequence work

About the Team The Coding team is reimagining how software is built in the AI era. We build tools and workflows that help software engineers work faster, tackle more ambitious projects, and spend less time on repetitive tasks. AI has already transformed how code is written, but software engineering extends far beyond coding. Our mission is to apply AI across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) — from design and implementation to code review, testing, debugging, issue remediation, maintenance, documentation, and user support. The team is also responsible for developer-facing Codex experiences including the Codex IDE Extension and the terminal interface, which are used daily by developers ranging from individual open-source contributors to some of the world’s largest engineering organizations. The team also works closely with the open-source software community, building tools that help maintainers and contributors manage increasingly complex projects. We believe AI can make open-source development more sustainable by reducing the operational burden of reviewing contributions, triaging issues, maintaining quality, and supporting growing communities. By building the future of software development, we're helping advance OpenAI's mission of ensuring that the benefits of AI reach people around the world. About the Role We’re hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer to help invent the next generation of AI-powered software development workflows. “Full stack” in this role means much more than traditional frontend and backend development. You'll own complete product experiences, spanning user interfaces, workflow orchestration, agent and prompt design, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure. This is a highly product-oriented role. You'll work directly on the workflows developers use every day, identifying bottlenecks and rethinking how software gets built in a world where AI agents are active participants in the development process. The features you ship will inf

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role As a Security Engineer, Application Security you will be responsible for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities within software applications through building security tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. We’re looking for people who will work closely with development teams to ensure secure coding practices are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle, preventing security risks before they emerge. You will also provide security guidance to developers and other stakeholders, fostering a culture of security awareness within the organization. The role is preferred to be based in San Francisco, Seattle or New York City but may consider remote work. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Perform Security Assessments : Conduct regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities in applications and software. Develop and Implement Security Tools : Design, develop, and implement security tools, frameworks, and methodologies to protect applications against security threats. Collaborate with Development Teams : Work closely with development teams to ensure security best practices are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including secure coding guidelines. Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment : Conduct threat modeling and risk

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Enterprise Platform team builds the systems that help our GTM teams bring OpenAI products to customers at scale. This role sits close to our emerging ads business, partnering with Ads Sales, Operations, Product, Finance, Legal, and Engineering to create reliable workflows for advertiser lifecycle, campaign readiness, approvals, and revenue operations. About the role Our GTM team helps customers understand the transformational potential of OpenAI’s models, and our internal systems should make that work faster, cleaner, and more intelligent. We’re looking for a Salesforce Ads Systems Engineer to design and build the Salesforce foundation for our ads business. You’ll partner with Ads Sales, Ads Operations, Product, Finance, Legal, and data teams to turn complex advertiser and campaign workflows into scalable, auditable systems. This is an execution-heavy, builder role. The primary charter of this role is ads GTM systems: advertiser account and opportunity workflows, campaign/order readiness, approvals, integrations, and automation that keep ads motions moving cleanly from pipeline through launch, billing, measurement, and reporting. In this role, you'll: Build Salesforce solutions for ads GTM : Develop user experiences, objects, automations, and guardrails that help Ads Sales and Operations manage advertisers, opportunities, insertion orders, campaign readiness, approvals, and launch handoffs with high data quality. Engineer integrations across the ads stack : Connect Salesforce with ads platforms, product catalogs, pricing/rate-card systems, data warehouses, billing tools, measurement workflows, CLM, and e-signature systems so advertiser and campaign data stays accurate and audit

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role As a Security Engineer, Application Security you will be responsible for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities within software applications through building security tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. We’re looking for people who will work closely with development teams to ensure secure coding practices are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle, preventing security risks before they emerge. You will also provide security guidance to developers and other stakeholders, fostering a culture of security awareness within the organization. The role is preferred to be based in San Francisco, Seattle or New York City but may consider remote work. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Perform Security Assessments : Conduct regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities in applications and software. Develop and Implement Security Tools : Design, develop, and implement security tools, frameworks, and methodologies to protect applications against security threats. Collaborate with Development Teams : Work closely with development teams to ensure security best practices are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including secure coding guidelines. Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment : Conduct threat modeling and risk

About the Team The Business Data Science team uses data and analytics to optimize business performance, drive growth, and foster meaningful partnerships, with the goal of ensuring the sustained and impactful expansion of OpenAI's initiatives to maximize the benefits of AGI for all of humanity. We partner with Sales (GTM), Marketing, Partnerships, Support, Finance, Product, and Growth. About the Role As a member of our Business Data Science team, you will help build a data-driven culture around insight generation, decision making, and strategy at OpenAI. This role is focused on driving customer success within our business products (ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise, and API). You will work on projects such as identifying opportunities for interventions within a customer lifecycle to drive activation & onboarding, identifying target audiences for new feature launches, and measuring the efficacy of emails, events, and other interventions to drive ongoing engagement with our products. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Embed with our Customer Success organization as a trusted partner, uncovering new ways to drive customer adoption and engagement of our business products. Establish key metrics, run experiments, and perform analysis to help us understand the incrementality of our efforts to drive adoption/engagement. Proactively surface insights and opportunities to drive engagement and growth. Build tools and systems for stakeholders to self-serve routine data and insights freeing up time to work on more leveraged analyses. Become an expert in OpenAI’s data and systems. Through partnership with Data Eng, Finance and other business teams, you will self-serve all the underlying data for our business and derive insights from them. Partner with other data scientists across the company to share knowledge and continually

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to architect and build backend systems that enforce data privacy and automate compliance at scale. You’ll work closely with product, infrastructure, security, and legal teams to embed privacy-by-design into our data and access layers. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for an experienced engineer who is passionate about protecting user data while enabling innovation. What You’ll Do Design, build, and operate backend services that enforce policy-driven data access, lifecycle controls, and privacy protections. Develop distributed authorization and identity-aware enforcement mechanisms integrated directly into data services and control planes. Implement auditability, policy hooks, and enforcement observability to ensure compliance is continuously verifiable. Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance to convert privacy requirements into scalable technical designs and developer-friendly APIs. Harden data platforms and backend services through schema-level controls and data handling constraints by default. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistent enforcement across systems while minimizing duplicated implementations. Contribute patterns, libraries, and education that elevate trustworthy data access patterns across the organization. You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have 5+ years of industry experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production. Strong software engineering fundamentals , with fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, C++, Java). Experience with distributed authorization, RBAC/ACL systems, encryption-based access, or policy engines. Familiarity with global privacy regulations and their architectural implications. Ability to influence and collaborate with teams across legal, compliance, product, and engineering. A bias toward practical, impactful solutions that balance privacy protections with product needs. Nice to Have Experience wi

About the Team With Codex we’re building an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively. Our team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI, bringing together research, engineering, design, and product. We iteratively build the Codex agent harness and product to get the most out of the model, and we iteratively train the model to be great at complex software engineering tasks. The Codex team is responsible for building state-of-the-art AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non-developers alike. We operate across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure; owning the full lifecycle of experimentation, deployment, and iteration on novel coding capabilities. Codex Enterprise builds the ecosystem, governance, and enterprise capabilities that help Codex spread across developers, teams, and organizations worldwide. The Enterprise Controls team owns the systems that allow companies to safely deploy Codex across their organization while protecting their most sensitive code, data, and internal knowledge. About the Role As Codex adoption grows inside large organizations, customers are increasingly trusting Codex with their most valuable assets: proprietary codebases, internal documentation, customer data, and sensitive workflows. This role will help build the enterprise control plane that makes Codex secure, governable, and trustworthy at scale. You will design and operate backend systems that give enterprise administrators visibility and control over how Codex is used across their organization. You will work across identity, access, encryption, policy enforcement, auditability, and admin controls. This may include systems that let customers manage encryption keys, control which Codex capabilities are enabled, enforce organizational policies, and understand how data flows through Codex. This role owns systems end-to-end: from architecture and

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives. About the Role We're looking for an experienced Electrical Engineer to help develop the next generation of robotic systems at OpenAI. This role spans the full lifecycle of hardware development, from early concept exploration and prototyping through circuit design, component selection, PCB layout, bring-up, integration, and deployment. Engineers in this role are expected to independently drive significant hardware efforts from initial concept through deployment. You will translate ambiguous goals into concrete engineering plans, make key technical decisions, coordinate closely with cross-functional partners, and own execution through the iterations required to deliver a successful system. Many of the systems we build are still being defined. You will work closely with mechanical, firmware, software, controls, and research teams to evaluate new ideas, develop novel hardware, and integrate it into robotic platforms. Success in this role requires strong engineering judgment, comfort operating in ambiguous spaces, and the ability to balance rapid experimentation with the discipline required to build reliable and scalable systems. The ideal candidate enjoys building things from first principles and is equally comfortable evaluating a new technology, debugging a prototype on the bench, reviewing PCB layout details, and driving system integration efforts. You should be able to move quickly when appropriate, but also know when investing in robustness, simplicity, or infrastructure will create leverage for future development. This role is

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role As a Security Engineer, Application Security you will be responsible for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities within software applications through building security tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. We’re looking for people who will work closely with development teams to ensure secure coding practices are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle, preventing security risks before they emerge. You will also provide security guidance to developers and other stakeholders, fostering a culture of security awareness within the organization. The role is preferred to be based in San Francisco, Seattle or New York City but may consider remote work. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Perform Security Assessments : Conduct regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities in applications and software. Develop and Implement Security Tools : Design, develop, and implement security tools, frameworks, and methodologies to protect applications against security threats. Collaborate with Development Teams : Work closely with development teams to ensure security best practices are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including secure coding guidelines. Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment : Conduct threat modeling and risk

About the Team IT Systems Operations serves as the operational control layer connecting Security, Engineering, and Employee Technology platforms. The team ensures employee-facing systems, identity workflows, and enterprise applications operate in a predictable, governed, and continuously reliable manner as the organization scales. Beyond implementation, the team establishes structured operating patterns that ensure platform changes, access models, integrations, and lifecycle workflows evolve safely and consistently across the enterprise environment. About the Role This role acts as an operational owner for identity-connected enterprise SaaS platforms and system change controls supporting OpenAI’s compliance requirements. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring that production configuration, access models, and platform changes remain compliant, auditable, and consistently operated through defined controls. You will own and operationalize controlled system and workflow changes across identity platforms, SaaS applications, collaboration tooling, and enterprise infrastructure. You will partner closely with Security, Platform Engineering, and IT Support Operations to: Ensure identity and access workflows behave consistently across systems Implement structured rollout and configuration practices for enterprise applications Improve visibility and traceability of system changes impacting employee workflows Translate operational requirements into durable automation and policy-aligned implementations Success in this role requires not only strong engineering capability, but also sound operational judgment, disciplined documentation practices, and effective cross-functional collaboration. In this role, you will: Enterprise SaaS & Identity Platform Ownership Own administration and operational stewardship of enterprise SaaS and identity-connected platforms, ensuring configuration integrity, access governance, and compliance with defined control requirements. Own onboard

About the Team With Codex we’re building an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively. Our team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI, bringing together research, engineering, design, and product. We iteratively build the Codex agent harness and product to get the most out of the model, and we iteratively train the model to be great at complex software engineering tasks. The Codex team is responsible for building state-of-the-art AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non-developers alike. We operate across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure; owning the full lifecycle of experimentation, deployment, and iteration on novel coding capabilities. Codex Enterprise builds the ecosystem building blocks, discovery surfaces, and enterprise capabilities that help Codex spread across developers, teams, and organizations worldwide. It is a cross-cutting team that works across the stack to build both delightful product experiences and fundamental platform capabilities. Its customers range from individual developers and small teams to large enterprises, and our mission is critical to achieving the vision of Codex as a proactive teammate. About the Role As we grow, we’re focused on turning Codex from a powerful individual tool into a production-grade teammate for entire organizations. You will work across internal OpenAI teams and external customers, from fast-moving startups to large enterprises, to make it possible to deploy, operate, and trust Codex in increasingly demanding real-world environments. As Codex’s consumer adoption accelerates, enterprise demand is growing just as quickly, and there is also increasing opportunity to expand Codex through ecosystem capabilities that unlock new workflows, integrations, and discovery. This team helps turn messy, real-world team requirements into robust, repeatable, and scalable product and