Senior Talent Partner in San Francisco

About the Team OpenAI’s Pricing team sits at the center of product, go-to-market, finance, and strategy. We define how OpenAI packages, prices, and scales access to our products across consumer, SMB, and enterprise customers, turning deeply technical product usage and market signal into company-level decisions. We’re looking for a senior Data Scientist to be the first dedicated data science hire on the Pricing team. This is a rare zero-to-one role with direct exposure to OpenAI’s CFO, Head of Pricing, and senior leaders across Product and GTM. You will help build the analytical foundation for pricing at OpenAI, shape executive decisions, and define what excellent pricing data science looks like. About the Role As a founding Data Scientist for Pricing, you will design the analyses, models, experiments, and decision frameworks that guide pricing strategy across OpenAI’s business. You’ll work side-by-side with the CFO, Head of Pricing, and senior leaders across Product and GTM on ambiguous, high-leverage questions where simple reporting is not enough, translating customer behavior, product usage, revenue outcomes, and market dynamics into clear recommendations. This role combines hands-on technical depth with executive-ready storytelling. You should be excited to build from first principles, operate with high independence, and influence decisions that shape how OpenAI grows and serves customers around the world. In This Role, You Will Serve as a senior analytical partner to the CFO, Head of Pricing, Product, and GTM leaders on pricing and monetization decisions. Build the analytical foundation for pricing across consumer, SMB, and enterprise segments, from exploratory analysis to repeatable decision systems. Design and execute analyses that connect customer behavior, product usage, conversion, retention, revenue outcomes, and pricing strategy. Develop models, algorithms, experiments, and decision frameworks for complex pricing, packaging, discounting, and willingness-t

About the Team The B2B Marketing team contributes to OpenAI's broader mission of ensuring responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. We are responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive awareness, engagement, and usage for OpenAI's products and platform. We take a data-driven approach to understand our customers' needs and challenges, ensuring that their voices are reflected in product development and messaging. We then partner closely with Product, Engineering, Growth, Sales, Research, Comms, and Design teams to create a cohesive customer experience across all our channels. About the Role We're looking for a senior product marketing leader to own the strategy, narrative, and go-to-market direction for ChatGPT Work. This role will help define how professionals, teams, and organizations put AI to work on meaningful tasks, move from questions to completed work, and adopt new ways of working across their business. You will serve as the senior product marketing owner for ChatGPT Work, shaping the category, setting portfolio priorities, and connecting product innovation to customer understanding, adoption, and growth. Your scope will span the Work experience across surfaces, connected tools, and AI-powered workflows, with a clear focus on the needs of professional users, Business customers, and Enterprise organizations. This is a leadership role for someone who can set strategy, make difficult tradeoffs, and stay close enough to the work to shape the messaging, product decisions, launches, and programs that determine whether customers adopt. You will partner with Product, Growth, Sales, Research, Comms, Creative, and adjacent product marketing teams to build a coherent experience from first discovery through sustained team usage. In this role, you will: Own the ChatGPT Work product marketing strategy: Define the audience, market opportunity, positioning, competitive strategy, and go-to-market priorities across professional users, tea

About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customer’s adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to join our Senior Support Engineering team. This role is an exciting opportunity to help define and implement foundational support practices that will scale with OpenAI’s growth. You will lead efforts to establish new operational frameworks, driving process alignment with various internal teams, and leading tooling and automation projects. This position offers the chance to make a significant impact in shaping customer experience while collaborating across multiple teams. We’re looking for people who thrive at the intersection of project management, systems building, data science/data engineering/software engineering, team enablement, and customer advocacy – and enjoy working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, evolving environment. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and follows a hybrid work model of 3 days in-office per week. Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will: Lead support delivery programs for Tier 3 frontline delivery for our most strategic customers, including productivity and workflow improvements, team operations, and knowledge management for the Support Delivery team Partner with Support Delivery and cross-functional leadership to define the experience, stand up the program, manage pilots and rollout, and ensure premium operations and

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 Design and Integration 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 motors, transmissions, sensing, thermal systems, structural components, and packaging. Define actuator requirements and system-level trade studies around torque density, bandwidth, efficiency, thermal performance, backdrivability, 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 pe

About the Team The Safety Systems team is responsible for various safety work to ensure our best models can be safely deployed to the real world to benefit the society, and is at the forefront of OpenAI's mission to build and deploy safe AGI, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering a culture of trust and transparency. The Safety Oversight Research team aims to fundamentally advance our capabilities to maintain oversight over frontier AI models, and leverage these advances to ensure OpenAI’s deployed models are safe and beneficial. This requires a breadth of new ML research in the areas of human-AI collaboration, reasoning, robustness, and scalable oversight to keep pace with model capabilities. We invest heavily in developing novel model and system-level methods of identifying and mitigating AI misuse and misalignment. Our goal is to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher with a passion for AI safety and experience in safety research. Your role will set directions for research to maintain effective oversight of safe AGI and work on research projects to identify and mitigate misuse and misalignment in our AI systems. You will play a critical role in defining how a safe AI system should look in the future at OpenAI, making a significant impact on our mission to build and deploy safe AGI. In this role, you will: Develop and refine AI monitor models to detect and mitigate known and emerging patterns of misuse and misalignment. Set research directions and strategies to make our AI systems safer, more aligned, and more robust. Evaluate and design effective red-teaming pipelines to examine the end-to-end robustness of our safety systems, and identify areas for future improvement. Conduct research to improve models’ ability to reason about questions of human values, and apply these improved models to practical safety challen

About the Team Industrial Compute is building the infrastructure ecosystem that enables OpenAI to train and deploy increasingly capable AI systems at unprecedented scale. The organization operates across compute supply, demand, infrastructure, partnerships, and the physical and commercial systems required to make large-scale compute available. Industrial Compute Strategy & Operations serves as the connective operating layer across this ecosystem. The team works directly with senior leadership across Scaling, Finance, Partnerships, Research, and Infrastructure to translate ambiguous, high-impact challenges into clear strategies, scalable operating mechanisms, and decisive execution. This team is responsible for ensuring that OpenAI’s compute strategy evolves into durable competitive advantage by identifying systemic constraints, aligning stakeholders around critical decisions, and driving the operating mechanisms required to execute at scale. About the Role We are seeking a highly experienced Strategic Operations leader to help shape and operationalize OpenAI’s compute strategy across supply, demand, infrastructure, partnerships, and commercial strategy. This is a senior individual contributor role operating at the intersection of strategy, operations, infrastructure, and executive decision-making. You will work closely with compute leadership to identify the most consequential problems facing the organization, develop structured approaches to solving them, align stakeholders across the company, and drive initiatives from ambiguous concepts through execution. The role will span both strategic and operational work. You may develop long-range compute strategies and investment frameworks, evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, shape major commercial transactions, establish organizational planning mechanisms, or take ownership of a cross-functional initiative that does not have a clear organizational home. Success in this role requires exceptional judgment, analytical

About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and pre-sales prospect

About the Team The Youth Well-Being product team is part of the Integrity pillar at OpenAI, responsible for ensuring that our state-of-the-art AI technologies are deployed in safe, age-appropriate, and beneficial ways—especially for youth and families. We work across OpenAI’s entire product surface area, from ChatGPT to future-facing tools, to architect safety and trust into the foundation of our systems. Our mission: empower families while meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance and ethical responsibility. This work is core to OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. Safety, especially for the most vulnerable users, is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help architect and build the foundational systems that power family- and youth-facing experiences at scale. You’ll help define how teens and guardians engage with OpenAI products—ensuring those experiences are safe, compliant, and empowering. You’ll operate across a broad technical surface: building identity primitives, age assurance pipelines, and guardian tools that support both proactive and reactive interventions. You’ll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, designers, user researchers, and policy experts. This is a high-impact, 0→1 opportunity to set the standard for how families interact with generative AI. In this role, you will: Architect and implement teen and guardian experiences across OpenAI products, including ChatGPT. Build global age assurance systems that are privacy-preserving and tailored to regional compliance needs. Design and evolve our identity infrastructure to support scalable, secure, and resilient user journeys at consumer internet scale. Help define safety and well-being metrics, and continuously improve user trust through technical interventions. You might thrive in this role if you: Have built products or infrastructure for users under 18, or h

About the Team The OpenAI 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 As a Senior Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Infrastructure, you will be a deeply hands-on engineering force multiplier for the robotics team. You will help keep the training framework and surrounding infrastructure healthy, review and improve code quickly, debug failures across ML systems and infrastructure, and unblock researchers and engineers when the path from idea to working training job gets rough. We’re looking for people who love writing, reading, reviewing, and fixing code; who can get productive quickly in unfamiliar systems; and who bring strong practical judgment without a lot of ego or process overhead. This role will be based in San Francisco, CA and be expected in office 5 days per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Review, improve, and clean up code across training frameworks and adjacent infrastructure. Identify risky or low-quality changes before they land, and raise the code quality bar without slowing the team down. Debug issues across ML training systems, GPUs, clusters, networking, and related infrastructure. Help researchers and engineers unblock broken training jobs, flaky workflows, and brittle internal tooling. Improve the reliability, maintainability, and usability of the robotics team’s training framework. Move quickly on practical engineering problems that directly affect team velocity. You might thrive in this role if you: Have strong software engineering fundamentals and excellent code review judgment. Have experience with ML systems, training fr

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 Mechanical Engineer to lead the design, integration, and sustaining engineering of mechanical subsystems in robotic platforms. 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 — including tolerance, alignment, load paths, wear, and failure modes — and robotics. You will contribute to real hardware programs moving from prototype through early production. You will lead both new 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 structures, mechanisms, and actuators. 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, 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 manufacturing partners

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 OpenAI is building the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of AI. The Data Center Engineering team defines the strategy, reference architectures, technical requirements, and delivery standards for the large-scale data centers that support OpenAI research, products, and infrastructure partners. As a Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer, you will help define, validate, and scale the electrical power systems that support high-density AI compute. You will translate evolving compute requirements into practical facility and rack-power architectures, evaluate new technologies and vendor solutions, and drive technical decisions across design, manufacturing validation, construction, commissioning, deployment, and operations. This role is best suited for a senior hands-on engineer with deep experience in mission-critical power systems, strong judgment under ambiguity, and the ability to connect facility infrastructure, hardware requirements, controls, telemetry, reliability, and operations. About the Role We are seeking a senior electrical infrastructure engineer to lead the development of reliable, scalable, and efficient power architectures for high-density, liquid-cooled AI data centers. The ideal candidate has strong practical experience with critical electrical systems at data centers or comparable industrial scale, including medium-voltage and low-voltage distribution, utility interfaces, backup power, UPS and battery systems, rack power delivery, grounding, protection, controls, and monitoring systems. You should be comfortable moving between long-range architecture, detailed engineering review, lab validation, vendor qualification, field deployment, and operational troubleshooting. Key Responsibilities Design and optimize electrical topologies and equipment strategies that reduce cost, accelerate schedules, improve efficiency, increase scalability, and maintain high reliability and maintainability. Review and develop basis-of-des

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: OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. Our Stargate program develops and deploys massive, state-of-the-art data center campuses in partnership with industry leaders today—and through future OpenAI infrastructure projects tomorrow. We design for scale, speed, and reliability, and we need experienced technicians who can translate network blueprints into physical reality. About the Role: We are seeking a Senior Data Center Networking Technician who thrives in fast-moving build environments and is eager to roll up their sleeves during active datacenter deployments. Your first assignment will focus on the physical bring-up of network infrastructure at a large partner-operated campus, collaborating with partner teams and their delivery vendors to achieve agreed performance and reliability targets. As that campus reaches steady state, you will transition to lead network deployment for future OpenAI data center projects, defining standards and guiding implementation across multiple locations. Candidates must be able to sit onsite in Abilene, Texas 5 days per week Key Responsibilities Serve as OpenAI’s technical lead technician during the current campus build, partnering with internal engineers and external contractors on design reviews, installation plans, and acceptance criteria. Spend significant time on the data-center floor performing inspections, assisting with cable routing/termination when needed, conducting fiber testing (OTDR, power levels, continuity), and resolving installation challenges in real time. Troubleshoot and optimize cabling routes, patching, and equipment turn-up to ensure clean, reliable handoff to network operations. Contribute to design discussions and peer reviews for structured cabling and physical network layouts, providing practical field feedback to engineering teams. Develop repeatable engineering standards, as-built do

About the Team OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale. About the Role You will be a Senior Android engineer on OpenAI’s Applied Foundations team, building the core mobile experiences that power how users sign up, manage their account, family features, pay for services, stay safe, and interact with OpenAI’s products with confidence. This role is about creating high-quality products as well as reusable Android foundations that product teams across different OpenAI apps depend on to ship quickly while meeting the highest standards for security, reliability, and user trust. You’ll own complex client-side systems spanning UI, networking, local state, payment integrations and Apple platform integrations, and work closely with backend, product, and safety partners to shape the architecture that supports OpenAI’s mobile ecosystem at global scale. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience. Have a proven track record of building high-quality Android applications in production. Are fluent in Kotlin (and/or Java) and familiar with Android development tools and architecture components. Prioritize performance, security, and user experience in mobile development. Enjoy working cross-functionally to bring ambitious product ideas to life. Care deeply about performance, security, and user experience. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We