Ai Research Engineer in United States

About the Team The Strategic Finance team at OpenAI plays a critical role in shaping the company’s long-term trajectory. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to inform high-stakes decisions through rigorous data science and economic modeling. As part of our expanding Data Science function, we’re building a best-in-class Forecasting capability to drive real-time, data-driven decision-making across user growth, revenue, compute infrastructure, and more. We are developing scalable forecasting infrastructure to help us understand and anticipate business dynamics in an increasingly complex, usage-based world. Our models are foundational to planning, pricing, operational efficiency, and growth strategy - supporting key investment decisions and unlocking OpenAI’s full potential. About the Role We’re looking for a senior Machine Learning Data Scientist to lead our forecasting initiatives. You’ll be one of the founding members of the Forecasting pillar within Strategic Finance Data Science, responsible for building and scaling robust, interpretable, and production-ready forecasting systems. Your models will power critical business decisions by predicting core metrics such as DAU/WAU, revenue, LTV, compute consumption, and profitability. This is a highly cross-functional role, requiring technical excellence, strong product intuition, and business acumen. You’ll collaborate with product managers, researchers, engineers, and finance leaders to operationalize forecasting insights, influence company-wide strategy, and build foundational forecasting capabilities at OpenAI. 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: Build statistical and machine learning models to solve forecasting needs across product, finance, infrastructure, and GTM domains. Own the end-to-end modeling lifecycle , including scoping, feature engineerin

About the Team The Systems Integration team is responsible for building the infrastructure, tooling, and validation systems that ensure our device software is reliable, testable, and ready to ship. We design and maintain automated test frameworks, hardware-in-the-loop labs, and release pipelines that keep quality signals trustworthy and enable rapid, safe product launches. Our work spans developer tools, automation, systems integration, and cross-team collaboration to ensure every release meets the highest standards. About the Role As a Software Engineer, Quality and Developer Tools , you will build and own the systems that validate our device software—from test frameworks and regression infrastructure to hardware-in-the-loop labs and release gates. You’ll design the tooling and automation that keep quality signals trustworthy, integrate them into CI/CD, and make it easy for engineers and QA vendor technicians to execute reliable, repeatable workflows. We’re looking for engineers with deep experience in software quality, automation, developer tooling, and hardware-software integration who thrive on building scalable, reliable systems for validation and release readiness. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Test infrastructure & frameworks: Design, implement, and maintain a unified test framework for device software across unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing, with reproducible runs and integrations with GitHub, Linear, and Slack. CI/CD integration & releases: Integrate test suites with Buildkite, enforce promotion criteria for staging and production, auto-file regressions, and publish traceable artifacts and release notes. Hardware-in-the-loop lab design & orchestration: Plan and bring up racks, power and networking systems, and orchestration for device testing; support automated flashing, provisioning

Job Description: Data Scientist, B2B Demand Generation, Growth & Measurement About the Role 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. What You’ll Do Define north-star, leading, and guardrail metrics for B2B demand generation, including account engagement, qualified leads and opportunities, sourced and influenced pipeline, conversion rates, pipeline velocity, and incremental ARR. Design and execute measurement and experimentation strategies across channels and campaigns, using randomized tests, audience or geographic holdouts, lift studies, quasi-experimental methods, and other causal approaches suited to long B2B sales cycles. Analyze channel, audience, campaign, creative, content, landing-page, and account-segment performance to identify the drivers of qualified demand, funnel conversion, pipeline quality, and incremental revenue. Partner with Marketing, Sales, RevOps, Finance, Product, and Engineering to improve instrumentation, campaign taxonomy, CRM data quality, lead-to-account matching, and the operating cadence for acting on measurement insights. Build AI-native measurement and decision-support workflows, using LLMs and agents to synthesize campaign performance, surface growth opportunities, and h

About the Team The Software Engineering team is responsible for designing and building the scalable, performant, and secure backend systems that power our products—from early prototypes to large-scale deployments. We collaborate closely with product, hardware, and full-stack teams to ensure our infrastructure enables fast iteration while setting a strong foundation for long-term growth. About the Role As a Backend Engineer , you will design and build services, APIs, and infrastructure that support evolving product needs. You’ll apply a deep understanding of backend systems and maintain enough end-to-end context—from hardware to cloud—to guide technical decisions that best serve the product and team. We’re looking for engineers who thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments and care deeply about building robust systems that scale. This role is based in San Francisco, CA . We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems. Design APIs, data models, and infrastructure to support evolving product needs. Balance near-term development velocity with long-term maintainability and scalability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, end-to-end solutions. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend systems. Have a proven track record of building and scaling systems from early stage to large scale. Are proficient with Python and Go, and familiar with a range of server-side technologies. Have a strong grasp of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices. Can reason about full-stack tradeoffs from hardware through cloud infrastructure. (Nice to have) Have experience with distributed systems and cloud architectures. (Nice to have) Bring a background in instrumentation, analytics, and performanc

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 Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role OpenAI is building a dedicated Digital Natives vertical focused on high-growth technology and internet companies shaping the future of software. As a Sales Manager, you will recruit, develop, and lead a team of senior Account Directors responsible for landing and expanding OpenAI’s largest and most strategic Digital Native customers. You will define how we win in this segment — establishing the operating cadence, deal strategy, and vertical GTM playbook for engaging sophisticated, technically fluent buyers building AI into their core products. You will operate as a hands-on front-line leader: deeply involved in complex opportunities, elevating sales discipline, and shaping how OpenAI scales enterprise revenue in the most dynamic segment of the market. 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. Key Responsibilities Recruit and develop a high-performing team of Account Directors. Establish a coaching culture centered on rigorous deal reviews, structured 1:1s, and clear performance standards. Raise the talent bar continuously through thoughtful hiring, development, and accountability. Architect and refine the GTM strategy for high-growth tech and internet companies. Shape territory design, account prioritization, and coverage mo

About the team The Codex Deployment Engineering team helps customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools throughout their software development lifecycle. We act as trusted technical partners, guiding engineering teams as they integrate Codex into their projects and workflows. Our customers span digital-native companies to global enterprises, and we work side-by-side to accelerate how they plan, build, and deliver software. About the Role We are seeking a technically deep, creativity-driven AI Deployment Engineer who is already a power user of AI coding tools and passionate about pushing the boundaries of developer productivity. You will partner directly with engineering leaders and hands-on builders to design, validate, and scale advanced AI workflows, often using Codex to prototype and build the very demos, integrations, and automations customers ultimately adopt. This is a highly cross-functional role that blends technical architecture, product strategy, and customer-facing leadership. You’ll work closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Applied Engineering, and the broader Codex organization to advocate for customer needs, shape product direction, and accelerate the successful deployment of intelligent coding systems across some of the world’s most influential companies. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert on OpenAI Codex for a portfolio of customers, embedding deeply with them to enable their engineering teams and build coding workflows. Partner directly with customers to design and implement AI-enhanced development workflows, from rapid prototyping through scalable production rollout. Build high-quality demos, reference implementations, and workflow automations, using Codex itself as part of your development process. Lead large-format workshops, technical deep dives, and hands-on enablement sessions that help engineering organizations adopt AI coding tools effectively and safely. Contribute technical content including

About the Team The Preparedness team is an important part of the Safety Systems org at OpenAI, and is guided by OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework . Frontier AI models have the potential to benefit all of humanity, but also pose increasingly severe risks. To ensure that AI promotes positive change, the Preparedness team helps us prepare for the development of increasingly capable frontier AI models. This team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models. The mission of the Preparedness team is to: Closely monitor and predict the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems, with an eye towards misuse risks whose impact could be catastrophic to our society Ensure we have concrete procedures, infrastructure and partnerships to mitigate these risks and to safely handle the development of powerful AI systems Preparedness tightly connects capability assessment, evaluations, and internal red teaming, and mitigations for frontier models, as well as overall coordination on AGI preparedness. This is fast paced, exciting work that has far reaching importance for the company and for society. About the Role We’re hiring a Data Scientist to help build, evaluate, and continuously improve mitigations that prevent extreme harms from AI systems. This role is for an experienced, highly autonomous individual contributor who can take ambiguous problem statements, structure rigorous analyses, and translate findings into actionable product and policy changes. This position goes beyond “running evals.” You’ll help create mitigation intelligence and monitoring systems that enable OpenAI to detect issues early, measure effectiveness over time, and reduce both over-blocking (unnecessary friction) and under-blocking (missed harm). What You’ll Do Evaluate and improve mitigation systems, including classifiers and detection pipelines across domains (e.g., biosecurity, cybersecurity, and emerging risk areas). Diagnose false positives and fa

About the Team The Release Engineer team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems that power software delivery—from CI/CD pipelines and artifact management to release automation and fleet telemetry. We ensure software across bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services is built reproducibly, validated rigorously, and released safely at scale. About the Role As a Release Engineer, you’ll design, build, and operate release infrastructure that enables reliable, secure, and traceable software delivery across complex multi-component systems. You’ll partner closely with embedded, cloud, and QA teams to ensure that every build—from development to OTA deployment—is fast, verifiable, and production-ready. We’re looking for engineers who take pride in automation, build reproducibility, and system reliability—and who enjoy building the connective tissue that allows hardware and software to ship together seamlessly. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Design and operate CI/CD pipelines for multi-component builds (bootloader, firmware, OS images, backend, companion apps) using hermetic toolchains. Define versioning and branching strategies; automate promotions, changelogs, and artifact retention. Integrate unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test results; quarantine flaky tests, auto-bisect failures, and block unsafe promotions. Build A/B OTA update flows with verity and health checks; run staged rollouts and canaries; implement safe rollback and roll-forward strategies. Implement code signing for binaries and firmware, generate SBOMs, run vulnerability scanning, and attach build attestations and provenance. Manage dashboards and alerts for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, and fleet update telemetry. You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience building and operating buil

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Sales team partners closely with customers to deeply understand their businesses and needs, helping inform the development of products and solutions that drive meaningful revenue growth and long-term success on the platform—while maintaining strong standards for user trust and platform integrity. About the role This role is focused on driving new and expanded advertising revenue and ensuring successful business results for advertisers. You will own the full sales cycle — from prospecting to deal closure, developing long-term commercial partnerships to help advertisers achieve their business objectives while ensuring a strong and responsible experience on our platform. You’ll work closely with Account Managers and key cross-functional partners to ensure advertisers achieve successful outcomes after the sale, while maintaining primary ownership of revenue growth and commercial strategy. In this role you will: Prospect, qualify, and close new advertising opportunities, leading the full sales cycle from initial engagement through contract execution. Own and achieve a defined revenue target within an assigned territory or vertical. Develop and execute structured account plans to drive advertiser ROI and long-term revenue growth. Build and maintain relationships with senior-level advertising decision-makers, delivering strategic guidance and actively gathering their feedback. Structure and negotiate complex commercial agreements. Quantify opportunities through clear, data-driven business cases aligned to advertiser objectives. Lead cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Policy, and Operations to support complex deals. Partner with Account Managers to ensure seamless post-sale transitions and coordinated expansion strategies. Maintain rigorous pipeline management and accurate revenue forecasting. Yo

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 Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our GTM team is uniquely positioned to help customers realize the transformative potential of advanced AI models for their businesses and end users. As part of the GTM Strategy & Operations team, you’ll play a critical role in guiding the GTM strategy and driving the operational efficiency to accomplish this mission. This role serves as a trusted advisor to GTM leadership—providing data-driven insights, managing core operating cadences, and leading high-impact projects that influence how we engage with customers and scale our business. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Enablement, Data and Growth Strategy teams to align efforts, drive efficiencies, and accelerate growth. This role is a central role, meaning it is not tied to a specific business partner, but rather designing the global processes for the business. In this role, you'll: Design, build, and manage our operating rhythms (Forecasting, Pipeline Council, Big Deal Reviews, and MBRs/QBRs). Conduct strategic analyses to determine trends and identify opportunities for process and strategy optimization Collaborate with GTM leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to develop go-to market strategy and resource plans Lead strategic projects to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the revenue organization. Partner closely with technical teams to impl

About the Team The Connectivity Software Engineering team is responsible for enabling seamless, secure, and high-performance wireless connectivity across OpenAI’s products. We design and optimize Bluetooth, BLE, Wi-Fi, and emerging wireless technologies to ensure robust device pairing, network performance, and interoperability. Our work spans kernel drivers, system services, and user-level tools, with a focus on real-world performance, scalability, and reliability. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Connectivity Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize wireless connectivity features across our product ecosystem. You’ll work at the intersection of systems software, wireless standards, and hardware integration—building robust pairing and provisioning flows, debugging low-level protocols, and driving performance under real-world RF constraints. You will also support certification, field interoperability, and fleet-scale connectivity infrastructure. This role is based in San Francisco, CA . We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Design, implement, and debug Bluetooth/BLE and Wi-Fi features across kernel drivers, BlueZ/wpa_supplicant/hostapd, and systemd/D-Bus services Deliver robust pairing, bonding, and provisioning flows (GATT/GAP, LE Audio/LC3, WPA3/802.1X, captive portals, NAN) Optimize link performance: throughput, latency, jitter, roaming, coexistence (BT↔Wi-Fi), and power modes (TWT, WoWLAN) Build reliable network management using NetworkManager/nmcli, nl80211/cfg80211/mac80211, DNS/DHCP/mDNS, P2P/SoftAP Instrument and analyze with packet captures and tooling (btmon/hcidump, Wireshark, iperf, eBPF/perf, spectrum sniffers) Drive interoperability and certification readiness (Bluetooth SIG, Wi-Fi Alliance) and resolve field issues with root-cause fixes Contribute to OTA-safe configuration, telemetry, and diagnostics for fleet-scale operation You might thrive in

About the Team The Scaling team is responsible for the architectural and engineering backbone of OpenAI’s infrastructure. We design and deliver advanced systems that support the deployment and operation of cutting-edge AI models. Our work spans system software, networking, platform architecture, fleet-level monitoring, and performance optimization. About the Role We’re hiring an SW Engineer to enable production workloads and end-to-end testing on new platforms. This role will include creating new test harnesses and platform stress benchmarks, porting existing inference and training workloads to new, sometimes early-access, systems/hardware, analyzing performance and bottlenecks, and characterizing the end-to-end behavior of new systems (compute, comms, storage, control plane, and failure modes). Key Responsibilities Port and validate key inference and training workloads on new platforms/SKUs as they arrive; drive correctness, performance, and stability to an internal readiness bar. Build a suite of benchmarks and stress tests that capture real E2E behavior of our workloads by exercising all aspects of a system, including CPU, GPU, memory subsystem, frontend, scale-up, and scale-out networking (including WAN traffic, NVlink and RDMA collectives), storage, thermals, and any other relevant parts. Deep-dive performance on distributed training/inference: Collective performance and tuning (across NCCL/RCCL and internal libraries) Overlap of compute/communication, kernel-level bottlenecks, memory bandwidth and scheduling effects Create repeatable test harnesses that run in CI / lab environments and produce actionable outputs (pass/fail, performance score, regression detection). Partner with systems + fleet bring-up engineers to ensure the platform is not only stable and performant, but also operationally usable and scalable (containerization, K8s integration, telemetry hooks, failure triage loops). Work cross-functionally with vendors and internal stakeholders by producing

About the Role As a Director, Compute & Infrastructure FP&A, you will own and drive the monthly forecasting process for the Compute & Infrastructure org by partnering with various stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, Tax and Engineering. You will play a critical role in planning and forecasting the company’s largest and most complex cost center ( Compute & Infrastructure ). You will collaborate cross-functionally to develop long-range infrastructure investment plans, evaluate build vs. buy decisions, and ensure capital is deployed efficiently to support rapid growth. You will also provide strategic financial guidance through scenario modeling, ROI analysis, and performance tracking, enabling leadership to make high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. What You’ll Do Own compute financial planning & Forecasting. Build and manage consolidation models for GPU/CPU capacity, storage, networking, and data center investments. Translate infrastructure roadmaps into short- and long-term financial forecasts (LRP, annual planning) Coordinate closely with Corporate FP&A on timelines and process Present insights on a monthly basis to senior management. Drive infrastructure investment decisions. Evaluate build vs. buy, vendor vs. owned infrastructure, and capacity allocation tradeoffs. Develop frameworks for investment trade-offs to guide executive decision making. Build scalable tooling & reporting. Implement stakeholder-facing dashboards to track compute spend, utilization, and efficiency metrics. Improve visibility into unit economics (e.g., cost per training run, cost per inference, cost per customer). Drive forecasting accuracy & accountability. Lead budget vs. actual analysis for compute and infrastructure spend. Identify key cost drivers (utilization, pricing, efficiency gains) and reduce forecast variance. Support close & financial reporting. Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate classification of infrastructure spend (OpEx vs C

About the Team We’re hiring software engineers to make OpenAI’s Model Performance teams more productive. These teams work on the systems, tooling, and infrastructure that help improve model performance across OpenAI’s training and inference workloads at frontier scale. About the Role We’re looking for an autonomous, high-ownership developer productivity engineer who cares deeply about helping other engineers move faster, safer, and with more confidence. This role will sit within OpenAI’s Model Performance organization, contributing to developer infrastructure, CI systems, testing workflows, tooling, and broader performance infrastructure efforts. There is also a strong opportunity to contribute to the Triton project and help improve the systems that support performance-critical engineering work across OpenAI. In this role you will: Improve development workflows for engineers working on model performance infrastructure Design and improve CI/CD, release, validation, and testing pipelines Build and maintain tools that improve reliability, iteration speed, and engineering confidence Partner closely with engineers to identify friction in testing, debugging, deployment, and development workflows Contribute to infrastructure efforts that support performance-critical training and inference systems Help improve developer experience across Python-heavy codebases and performance-oriented infrastructure Work in a high-context, ambiguous environment where ownership and good judgment matter You might thrive in this role if: You are motivated by enabling the people around you and helping engineers do their best work You have strong experience with CI/CD, developer infrastructure, testing systems, tooling, or build/release workflows You are highly collaborative, empathetic, and comfortable partnering deeply with technical teams You are strong in Python and enjoy building reliable, scalable developer tools and infrastructure You have experience improving large-scale engineering work

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Sales team partners closely with customers to deeply understand their businesses and needs, helping inform the development of products and solutions that drive meaningful revenue growth and long-term success on the platform—while maintaining strong standards for user trust and platform integrity. About the role We’re looking for an Account Manager to support advertisers in onboarding, launching, and growing on OpenAI’s advertising platform. You will manage a portfolio of partners and serve as a trusted advisor, helping them achieve their business objectives while ensuring a strong and responsible experience on our platform. This role sits at the intersection of relationship management, strategy, and execution. You’ll work closely with Sales to drive long-term partner growth and with internal teams to continuously improve the advertiser experience. In this role, you will: Own relationships with a portfolio of advertising partners, serving as their primary point of contact. Guide advertisers through onboarding and campaign launches to ensure strong adoption of OpenAI’s ads products. Analyze campaign performance and provide clear, actionable recommendations to improve outcomes. Identify opportunities to expand partnerships through increased product adoption and incremental investment. Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Analytics, Policy, and Operations to resolve issues and enhance platform value. Surface advertiser feedback and insights to inform product improvements and long-term strategy. Help build scalable processes and best practices that support the growth of OpenAI’s advertising ecosystem. You might thrive in this role if you: Has 5-10+ years of experience in digital advertising, account management, customer success, consulting or a related client-facing role. Has experience managing advertiser or agency r