Field Engineer in San Francisco

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing the world’s most exceptional talent under one roof to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Our Research Recruiting team plays a critical role in this effort. We are an embedded part of the research organization—working side by side with our research staff to deeply understand evolving priorities, build trust, and strategically shape the future of OpenAI’s talent. About the Role You’ll focus on identifying and engaging world‑class AI researchers and scientists who are advancing the frontier of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In this role, you will drive top‑of‑funnel sourcing efforts, build thoughtful outreach strategies, and cultivate long‑term relationships with highly specialized talent across academia and industry to support our Research teams’ hiring ambitions. You’ll work across a range of deeply technical and research‑oriented roles, mapping emerging fields, identifying leading contributors, and proactively engaging experts in their respective domains. You’ll partner closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and research leaders to surface exceptional candidates, generate strong pipelines for niche searches, and continuously refine sourcing strategies to help our research teams grow and scale. Your Responsibilities: Build highly targeted searches that deliver candidate profiles with precision. Craft thoughtful approaches to candidate outreach that will engage even the most passive talent and cultivate relationships with high priority targets over the long-term. Develop and utilize creative strategies to discover non-traditional, research-adjacent, and/or up and coming talent. Partner closely with hiring managers across OpenAI to develop customized sourcing strategies and advise them on the market. Take a highly organized and data driven approach to candidate tracking and funnel metrics. Represen

About the Team OpenAI’s People Experience & Technology (PXT) team owns the core people platform that powers worker, recruiting, contingent, approvals, and lifecycle workflows across the company. PXT is responsible for operating Workday, Ashby, and related people systems as governed, reliable sources of truth, while building the controls, monitoring, documentation, and auditability required to support scale. About the Role We’re hiring an Enterprise Systems Manager, Recruiting Systems to help own and harden OpenAI’s recruiting platform, with a focus on Ashby and its connected workflows. This is a hands-on systems role for someone who can translate recruiting process problems into governed, durable fixes through configuration, workflow design, access controls, documentation, reporting guardrails, and integration partnership. You will work at the boundary of Recruiting, HR Operations, Legal, Compensation, Analytics, IT, and PXT to improve the reliability and control health of recruiting workflows. The right person is comfortable going deep in system design while also driving rollout, adoption, and operational clarity. In this role you will: Own specific recruiting workflow domains in Ashby and adjacent tools, including stages, fields, permissions, approvals, templates, and configuration standards. Partner on high-priority remediation work across start dates, offers, approvals, integrations, auditability, data integrity, and workflow controls. Design and implement governed workflow changes that balance recruiter usability with reporting trust, downstream integration reliability, and control requirements. Establish and maintain guardrails such as required and conditional fields, stage definitions, role-based permissions, approval logic, validation patterns, and change standards. Drive durable fixes for recurring operational issues by identifying root causes and resolving them through configuration, automation, documentation, or process redesign. Partner with PXT, IT,