Lead Ai Engineer in United States

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Are you passionate about building and scaling enterprise finance systems that power global business operations? Join Pinterest’s IT Enterprise Systems team, where you’ll play a key role in evolving our Oracle EBS and Finance technology landscape. This is an opportunity to drive meaningful impact by partnering with Finance, Accounting, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and business-critical ERP solutions that support Pinterest’s continued growth. What You’ll Do: Serve as a subject matter expert for Oracle EBS Financials across accounting-centric processes, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, subledger accounting and related integrations. Lead solution design, configuration, support, and continuous improvement across accounting processes, with emphasis on close acceleration, data accur

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the strategic vision and execution for Pinterest’s core and ads serving platforms, overseeing the infrastructure that enables high-scale, low-latency delivery of content and ads across all Pinterest surfaces. They will define the multi-year architecture to ensure our serving systems are reliable, performant, and cost-efficient while enabling rapid innovation for product and ML teams. What you’ll do: Set the long-term technical and operational vision for the Core and Ads Serving Platform, aligning infrastructure investme

About the Team The People Technology team builds and operates the systems that support how OpenAI hires, develops, and supports its people. The team brings together People Systems and People Innovation Labs, a product engineering group focused on rethinking how we find and retain exceptional talent and help employees do their best work. People Systems owns the company’s core people-technology ecosystem, including platforms such as Workday and Ashby. People Innovation Labs builds new employee and People Team experiences on top of that foundation, including OpenHouse, our internal employee hub, and AI-powered products and automations. Together, we are working toward a model in which our enterprise systems provide reliable data, controls, and core business logic, while employees and managers can complete more of their work through simple, integrated, and AI-native experiences. About the Role We are looking for a People Systems Lead to manage the People Systems team and shape how our core systems evolve. You will be responsible for the reliability and effectiveness of our current environment while helping us move beyond the constraints of traditional enterprise software. This includes stabilizing and improving platforms such as Workday and Ashby, designing the integrations that connect them to the broader technology ecosystem, and partnering with People Innovation Labs to surface workflows through OpenHouse, Slack, and AI-powered experiences. This role requires someone who is comfortable moving between strategy, technical design, and team leadership. You should understand People systems deeply, be able to work through integration and architecture decisions with engineers, and translate complex organizational needs into scalable solutions. You will also manage vendor relationships, develop the People Systems team, and drive alignment across People, Engineering, Finance, Security, Legal, and other partners. This role could be a fit for someone who has grown up in People S

About the Team We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to build and grow partnerships across the cybersecurity ecosystem. Reporting to the Cybersecurity Partnerships Lead, you will own a portfolio of cybersecurity technology partners and help them validate, launch, and scale solutions powered by OpenAI models and platforms. About the Role You are an experienced partnerships operator who combines business development, partner management, technical curiosity, and strong execution. You can manage external relationships while driving detailed cross-functional work across product, engineering, technical success, sales, marketing, legal, security, and operations. You move with urgency, follow through consistently, and are comfortable managing a portfolio in a fast-changing market. In this role, you will: Source, close and manage a portfolio of cybersecurity technology partners. Identify high-value use cases across security operations, identity, cloud security, application security, threat intelligence, governance, risk, and compliance. Develop partner plans covering integration, launch, enablement, co-marketing, co-sell, and growth. Support partnership structuring and coordinate product, technical, commercial, legal, and security workstreams. Help partners move from concept and technical validation to production launch and scaled customer adoption. Run regular partner reviews, track commitments, resolve blockers, and identify expansion opportunities. Coordinate closely with product, engineering, technical success, sales, marketing, legal, security, and operations. Measure partner pipeline, launches, model adoption, consumption, customer outcomes, and partner health. You might thrive in this role if you have: 8+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, alliances, partner success, or ecosystem roles. Experience in cybersecurity, enterprise software, cloud platforms, o

About the Team We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to design and operate the partner program for technology partners, ISVs, and marketplace participants. You will turn partner strategy into a simple, scalable experience from recruitment and onboarding through enablement, benefits, performance management, and growth. About the Role You are an operational builder with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of turning ambiguous goals into clear programs and measurable outcomes. You are comfortable working across product, engineering, GTM, marketing, operations, legal, finance, security, and support. You balance rigorous systems and governance with a thoughtful partner experience, and you can move quickly as the ecosystem evolves. In this role, you will: Design and run the end-to-end ISV and marketplace partner program. Define partner eligibility, segmentation, tiers, benefits, requirements, and lifecycle stages. Build repeatable onboarding, technical enablement, validation, listing, launch, and growth journeys. Establish program policies, documentation, service levels, governance, and escalation paths. Create partner communications, education, office hours, playbooks, and self-service resources. Develop program metrics and dashboards covering recruitment, activation, solution quality, adoption, revenue impact, and partner health. Coordinate launches and program changes across product, engineering, GTM, marketing, legal, security, finance, support, and operations. Capture partner feedback and translate it into program, product, and operating improvements. You might thrive in this role if you have: 8+ years of experience in partner programs, marketplaces, ecosystem operations, business operations, or program management. Proven experience building or scaling a technology partner, ISV, or marketplace program. Exceptional ability to convert ambiguous goals into clear p

About the Team The Product Marketing team shapes how OpenAI brings its research, models, and products to market. We work across Research, Product, Engineering, Sales, Communications, and Marketing to translate technical advances into clear customer value, compelling market narratives, and go-to-market strategies that drive meaningful adoption. About the Role We’re looking for a senior product marketing leader to shape how OpenAI’s models and research are understood and adopted around the world. You’ll work directly with frontier research teams to understand emerging capabilities and translate them into compelling product strategies, market narratives, and customer experiences. Your scope will span frontier models, specialized models for cybersecurity and life sciences, multimodal capabilities, and the API portfolio that makes these systems accessible to developers and businesses. You’ll build and lead the team responsible for helping customers understand what our models can do, how they’re evolving, and how to deploy them responsibly. In this role, you will: Define the product marketing strategy for OpenAI’s models, research advances, and API portfolio. Embed with Research, Product, and Engineering to understand model capabilities, evaluations, limitations, and technical tradeoffs. Shape how OpenAI explains advances in AI to developers, business leaders, and the broader market. Lead positioning, launches, demonstrations, and adoption strategies across frontier, specialized, and multimodal models. Help customers navigate model selection, API access, privacy, security, and responsible deployment. Bring customer and market insights into research and product decisions. Partner with Sales, Solutions, Partnerships, and regional teams to develop customer narratives, use cases, and enablement. Work with Communications, Safety, Policy, and Legal to ensure technical claims are accurate and grounded. Build and lead a high-performing product marketing team and define success ac

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model 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 constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We are seeking an Actuator Gear Design Engineer to lead the development of custom gears and gear stages for advanced robotic systems. You will own actuator development from early architecture and concept generation through prototype validation and system integration, partnering closely with mechanical, electrical, controls, firmware, and reliability teams. You will partner with external suppliers and internal manufacturing to create full gearbox assemblies. This role focuses on the design, integration, and validation of precision gearing, including broader knowledge around motor electromagnetics, transmission types, sensing, structural components, and thermal architectures. You will help drive actuator development across the full engineering lifecycle while establishing scalable design, test, and integration practices for future robotic platforms. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person presence 4 days a week. In this role, you will: Lead the architecture, design, and integration of custom robotic actuator gearing. Define actuator requirements and system-level trade studies around torque density, bandwidth, efficiency, thermal performance, back drivability, inertia, reliability, manufacturability, and cost. Design precision electromechanical assemblies with strong attention to tolerances, alignment, load paths, thermal expansion, sealing, wear, and serviceability. Drive actuator integration into robotic systems, partnering closely with controls, firmware, electrical, and robotics software teams to optimize closed-lo

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model 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 constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We are seeking a senior Actuator Electromagnetic Design Engineer to lead the development of custom electromechanical actuators for advanced robotic systems. You will own actuator development from early architecture and concept generation through prototype validation and system integration, partnering closely with mechanical, electrical, controls, firmware, reliability, and manufacturing teams. This role focuses on the design, integration, and validation of precision electromechanical systems, including motors, transmissions, sensing, structural components, and thermal architectures. You will help drive actuator development across the full engineering lifecycle while establishing scalable design, test, and integration practices for future robotic platforms. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person presence 4 days a week. In this role, you will: Lead the architecture, design, and integration of custom robotic actuators, including the design, simulation, integration and sourcing of custom electromagnetic components. Define actuator requirements and system-level trade studies around torque density, bandwidth, efficiency, thermal performance, inertia, reliability, manufacturability, and cost. Design precision electromechanical assemblies with strong attention to tolerances, alignment, load paths, thermal expansion, sealing, wear, and serviceability. Drive actuator integration into robotic systems, partnering closely with controls, firmware, electrical, and robotics software teams to optimize closed-loop performance. Devel

About the Team OpenAI’s Compute Strategy team is responsible for securing and scaling the core resources that power our research and products. We partner across engineering, finance, legal, and operations to identify, negotiate, and execute strategic partnerships that expand OpenAI’s capacity for compute, power, and data center infrastructure. Our mandate spans energy procurement, real estate development, colocation, cloud service providers, silicon and strategic supply chain, and infrastructure financing—ensuring OpenAI can grow with speed, resilience, and cost-efficiency. About the Role We are hiring several Business Development Lead, Compute Strategy positions focused on compute infrastructure. Each hire will bring deep expertise in one or more focus areas while collaborating across the broader infrastructure stack. In this role, you will source opportunities, structure partnerships, and negotiate high-value agreements across OpenAI’s infrastructure ecosystem. You will work directly with external partners and suppliers while collaborating internally with engineering, legal, finance, and operations to ensure we have the resources needed to support state-of-the-art AI systems. This role requires technical fluency, commercial judgment, and disciplined execution. Your work will directly shape how quickly, reliably, and efficiently OpenAI can bring new compute capacity online. Each hire will focus on building partnerships and executing deals in one or more of the following areas: Energy and Power: securing scalable and sustainable energy supply. Land and Real Estate: identifying and securing strategic sites. Colocation : evaluating and contracting for third-party data center capacity. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs): structuring partnerships with hyperscalers and specialized AI cloud providers. Silicon: building semiconductor partnerships to secure advanced silicon and resilient long-term supply. Fiber & Equipment: securing fiber & critical data center equipmen

About the role We are building a higher education researcher motion that helps funded labs adopt OpenAI across core research workflows. This role will develop relationships with principal investigators, researchers, research software engineers, research computing teams, and university technology leaders, then translate high-value use cases into sustained Pro, Codex, API, and ChatGPT Edu usage. This is a hybrid business development and program management role. You will identify and qualify priority labs, design phased access and fellows programs, run pilots, remove technical and institutional blockers, and create repeatable paths from individual researchers to lab- and institution-level adoption. Additionally, this role will launch and manage a community of researchers with events, communications and support. In this role, you will: Build a pipeline of funded labs, research centers, and technical champions at priority R1 universities; qualify opportunities based on workflow value, funding path, influence, and expansion potential. Run discovery with researchers and university stakeholders to understand workflows, data and security needs, procurement constraints, and success criteria. Design and operate phased access and fellows programs, including eligibility, selection, offer mechanics, onboarding, office hours, community programming, and pilot goals. Translate research workflows into effective use of Pro, Codex, API, and ChatGPT Edu in partnership with Solutions, Product, and Education account teams. Manage pilots end to end, remove trust, funding, and technical blockers, and drive measurable activation, retention, and expansion. Turn early usage into product feedback, workflow documentation, peer proof, case studies, and repeatable enablement. Build clear handoffs and expansion paths from researcher to lab to institution; track fellow selection, activation, retained usage, workflow proof, conversion, and expansion. You might thrive in this role if you: Relevant exp

About the Team The Ads Support Delivery team is responsible for helping successfully operate and grow on our Ads product. This includes technical guidance, troubleshooting complex delivery and monetization issues, and partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety and Go-To-Market teams to resolve customer-impacting problems and improve the platform over time. The team’s mission is to deliver a high-quality customer experience at scale by combining strong human support with automation, self-service, and AI-enabled workflows, while maintaining high operational rigor. About the Role: As a Support Delivery Lead for Ads, you will lead a team responsible for end-to-end support delivery across the ads ecosystem, including campaign setup, delivery, billing, measurement, and policy navigation. You will set the operational bar for quality, responsiveness, and consistency; coach and grow the team; and translate support signals into actionable improvements with Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market partners. 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 and support a team of Ads support engineers, ensuring they have the tools, clarity, and coaching needed to operate at a high bar in a technically complex domain. Set clear expectations and operating standards, run recurring performance reviews, and build development plans that grow both technical depth (ad tech fluency) and customer-facing excellence. Design and continuously improve support coverage for ad buyers, ensuring the team can diagnose delivery issues and monetization and integration issues with equal rigor. Act as the bridge between Support Delivery, Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market teams. Drive alignment on priorities, escalation paths, launch readiness, tooling improvements and mechanisms to reduce repeated customer pain points. Partner with engineering teams

About the team Special Situations at OpenAI is the company’s commercial engine for its most complex and consequential opportunities. The team operates where new verticals, partnership models, and customer motions must be invented, before a repeatable GTM or delivery playbook exists, by bringing together product, research, engineering, and GTM leaders around a single outcome. Many of these efforts begin as “new bets” (new verticals, new customer motions, new partnership models) and mature into repeatable ways of working that shape how OpenAI operates at scale. The team acts as a force-multiplier for the company by accelerating decision-making, aligning stakeholders, and converting complex opportunities into durable results. About the role We’re hiring a Deal Lead, Special Situations to help stand up new vertical bets, with a particular focus on partnership development in the semiconductor industry. You will identify where AI can create step-change value for semiconductor companies and ecosystem partners, originate and shape multi-project programs with FDEs and applied researchers, package them into compelling commercial proposals, and execute creative, complex partnerships while keeping executives and cross-functional teams tightly aligned. This role is especially focused on building strategic partnerships in semiconductors. You do not need to be a technical engineer, but you do need to be able to speak the language of the semiconductor industry, build credibility quickly with technical and business stakeholders, and come up the learning curve fast on industry dynamics, workflows, and constraints. A key part of the role is crafting deals with semiconductor companies that demonstrate our unique competitive advantages. To do this effectively, you will need to develop a strong point of view on the market, understand the competitive landscape, and clearly articulate OpenAI’s differentiated value and strategic advantage. Special Situations owns the overall success of each

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model 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 constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We are seeking a Mechanical Engineer to design and prototype novel tactile, proprioceptive and force sensor solutions. You will work closely with experienced engineers and cross-functional partners to set functional requirements, develop and iterate on hardware to meet program expectations. This role is aimed at candidates with strong fundamentals in mechanical system design and robotic sensing including tactile sensors, force sensing and position sensing. You will contribute to real hardware programs moving from prototype through early production. You will lead both new sensor subsystem development and ongoing improvements to existing systems based on testing, field performance, and manufacturing feedback. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person presence 4 days a week. In this role, you will Lead the design and iteration of mechanical subsystems, including tactile sensors, load cells, force torque sensors and joint encoders. Create and maintain CAD models, assemblies, and drawings with appropriate tolerancing and documentation. Build and test prototypes, supporting debugging of mechanical issues such as fit, alignment, friction, and wear. Assist in developing test methods and executing validation to evaluate performance, durability, calibration and failure modes. Work with cross-functional teams to integrate mechanical components with sensors, actuators, and control systems. Support transition of designs from prototype to manufacturable assemblies, incorporating DFM and DFA considerations. Collaborate with manufact

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. Our Industrial Compute organization develops and deploys large-scale AI campuses designed to support the next generation of frontier model training and inference workloads. The Hardware Operations team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and lifecycle health of OpenAI’s compute infrastructure. We partner closely with Data Center Operations, Fleet Health Engineering, Manufacturing, Network Infrastructure, Capacity Planning, and our infrastructure partners to maintain world-class operational performance across rapidly expanding AI environments. As we scale globally, we are building the operational frameworks, reliability standards, and sustaining engineering practices required to support thousands of GPUs and servers across multiple campuses. About the Role We are seeking a Datacenter Hardware Technician Lead to serve as the senior on-site technical authority for hardware reliability and fleet health at one of OpenAI’s flagship AI campuses. This role operates at the intersection of hardware operations, sustaining engineering, and fleet reliability. You will partner closely with Cloud Service Provider operations teams, OpenAI fleet-health engineers, hardware engineering teams, and OEM vendors to identify, diagnose, and resolve hardware issues affecting production systems. Beyond day-to-day operational support, you will drive root cause investigations, reliability improvement initiatives, lifecycle management programs, and operational readiness efforts. You will help establish hardware maintenance standards, operational procedures, and best practices that scale across future OpenAI infrastructure deployments. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on datacenter hardware expertise with strong troubleshooting, failure analysis, and cross-functional leadership skills. Candidates must be able to sit onsite at our

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model 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 constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We're seeking talented Robotics Software Engineers to expand our robotics data collection and evaluation program. This highly technical role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing software solutions across diverse robotics hardware. You'll work closely and collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams; including software, hardware, research, and operations - to drive advancements in our robotic systems. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person 4 days a week. In this role, you will: Help develop and grow our data collection labs, owning the entire integration lifecycle, from identifying and sourcing new hardware to collaborating with mechanical and electrical engineers on setup, software integration, and operational deployment. Develop innovative robot control interfaces suited to a variety of morphologies, environments, and tasks. Collaborate closely with research and engineering teams to develop automation tools and machinery that facilitate the evaluation of advanced robotic policies. Lead the design and implementation of data collection, visualization, and quality control processes. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience developing and shipping production-quality systems in robotics or hardware-integrated environments. Have extensive experience integrating and deploying industrial automation systems, off-the-shelf robotics platforms, or custom hardware into production environments. Bring hands-on experience delivering production-quality software