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
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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 OpenAI Robotics depends on high-quality real-world robot data from a large, live operational environment. That environment has many deployed workcells, changing configurations, and little tolerance for downtime. We are seeking a Field Engineer to help keep that environment running well. You will own the day-to-day technical health of robotic workcells used in ongoing data acquisition operations, diagnose and resolve failures across hardware and software, and build the practical tools, documentation, and support workflows that make operators and technicians more effective. The work is close to the floor, close to the failure modes, and close to the research impact. This role sits at the intersection of software, robotics hardware, and live operations. The best people in it are practical, technically sharp, calm under pressure, and motivated by making real systems work reliably at scale. This role will be based in San Francisco, CA 5 days per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Serve as an engineering owner for keeping a fleet of robotic workcells online in daily operation. Diagnose, fix, mitigate, or escalate issues spanning mechanics, electronics, controls, software interfaces, logs, and configuration. Partner closely with technicians, operators, and engineering teams to improve scalable fleet support processes. Build or spec lightweight hardware and software tools that improve monitoring, diagnostics, recovery, and handoffs. Create documentation, SOPs, and diagnostic playbooks that turn en
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 will own and execute long-term talent strategies to identify, engage, and recruit many of the world’s leading and emerging AI researchers, research engineers, and technical scientists working at the frontier of machine learning. This is not a traditional execution-focused recruiting role. You will operate as a strategic partner to OpenAI’s research staff, helping define hiring priorities, shape search strategy, influence candidate evaluation, and guide hiring decisions that directly impact the direction and quality of our frontier-model research and fulfillment of our mission. In this role, you will: Partner directly with research and technical staff to define hiring priorities, shape search strategies, and anticipate future talent needs as technical roadmaps evolve. Proactively identify and cultivate exceptional AI/ML research talent across industry, academia, and emerging labs, often before formal hiring needs exist. Use market insights and candidate signals to influence hiring decisions, leveling, and compensation strategy for highly specialized research roles. Serve as a trusted advisor throughout candidate evaluation and closing — helping leaders calibrate for research excellence, long-term potential, and organizational fit. Collaborate closely with your sourcing partner to execute complex, high-impact searches in ambiguous or rapidly evolving technical domains. You might thrive in this role if you: Significant experience recruitin
About the Role We’re looking for a senior Strategic Finance Lead to help shape and execute OpenAI’s financial strategy across some of the company’s most important long-term investments and growth priorities. This high-impact role sits at the intersection of corporate finance, capital markets, treasury, and cross-functional execution. In this role, you will: Shape financial strategy for major long-term investments, capital structure decisions, and broader strategic decision-making. Build rigorous financial models and scalable frameworks to evaluate strategic initiatives, funding options, tradeoffs, and risk. Structure and help execute complex strategic initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams. Translate ambiguous technical and business inputs into clear recommendations and decision-ready materials for executives, the board, and other senior stakeholders. Lead high-priority cross-functional workstreams from concept through execution, bringing strong judgment, ownership, and communication in fast-moving situations. Help build an AI-native finance organization by applying AI to improve workflows, decision-making, and execution across finance processes. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, infrastructure finance, or related fields. A strong understanding of capital structure, financing strategy, debt markets, and large-scale investment evaluation. Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments with the ability to navigate ambiguity and move quickly. Exceptional financial modeling, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities. Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly across investors, executives, and technical stakeholders. A high-agency operating style that combines strategic perspective with a willingness to build directly. Excitement around using AI as a core operating advantage, with a mindset
About the Role The AI Deployment Manager (ADM) - Pilots is a customer-facing role responsible for leading structured, time-bound enterprise AI pilots from initial scoping through final executive readout. This role is focused on helping customers evaluate OpenAI’s products in real-world contexts, identify high-value use cases, and generate clear, decision-ready signals tied to business value. You will design and lead pilot engagements that drive activation, sustained usage, and measurable impact across ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and adjacent workflows. This includes partnering with customer stakeholders to define success criteria, guiding users from experimentation to real adoption, and translating pilot outcomes into clear recommendations that support expansion or purchase decisions. This role requires strong judgment, the ability to operate in ambiguity, and a consistent focus on connecting technical capabilities to business outcomes. You will regularly engage both executive stakeholders and working teams, adapting your approach to meet customers where they are and move them forward. In this role, you will: Own the design and execution of enterprise AI pilots, including scoping, cohort definition, and success criteria aligned to a clear commercial decision. Identify and prioritize a small set of high-impact use cases that can generate credible signal within a 30–45 day pilot. Drive activation and sustained engagement across pilot cohorts through targeted enablement, office hours, and workflow-level coaching. Monitor pilot performance and adapt in real time, diagnosing gaps in engagement, use case traction, or stakeholder alignment. Translate pilot signals into clear, executive-ready recommendations, including whether and how the customer should expand. Navigate customer constraints such as security, data access, and competing tools while maintaining pilot momentum. Partner closely with ADs, SEs, and customer stakeholders to align on scope, risks, and next steps. Ca
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires effective engagement with public policy stakeholders and the broader community impacted by AI. Accordingly, our Global Affairs team builds authentic, collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community to inform and support our shared work in these domains. We ensure that insights from policymakers inform our work and – in collaboration with our colleagues and external stakeholders – seek to shape policy so that it aligns with and supports our mission. About the role OpenAI is looking for an Applied Risk Standards Specialist to lead standards work for applied risk in applications, including mental health, youth safety, age assurance, functional efficacy, reliability, and privacy-related risks. You will help turn internal research, safety policies, and evaluation methods into technically sound, measurable, and adaptable standards that build public trust and support responsible deployment. This role sits within our AI standards and global assurance function in Global Affairs. Working closely with Safety Systems, Research, Product, Model Policy, Legal, and third-party evaluators, you will author proposals, negotiate requirements, and represent OpenAI in priority standards bodies. You will take on the drafting and external engagement needed to advance this work, enabling technical experts to focus on the underlying methods and evidence. You will also bring emerging requirements back into internal planning before they become established expectations. Alongside this primary portfolio, you will support the AI Standards and Global Assurance Lead on frontier AI assurance, contributing to risk-management standards, evaluation and benchmarking requirements, and approaches to independent assessment. The role connects technical practice with external standards. It does not replace t
About VSCO For years, we've helped photographers create their work. Now we're building what comes next. VSCO exists for photographers. Not as a side feature, not as an afterthought, but as the whole point. We build the connected system photographers rely on, and we've spent over a decade earning the trust of a global creative community that takes the craft seriously. Photography is at an inflection point. AI is reshaping what's possible for creative work, and that's where our mission shines. VSCO is building the full photographer's workflow: from creating and editing your work, to delivering it to clients, to running your business. All of it built thoughtfully, with photographers leading the way. We believe the future of photography tools creates more space for creativity, handling the busy work so photographers can focus on the craft. If you care about craft, community, and what technology can unlock for creative people, this is the work. We're a mission-driven and focused company where your work ships quickly, is meaningful, and reaches tens of millions of people worldwide. You'll have a real say in what we build and how we build it. We hire people who don't wait to be asked, naturally connect the dots, care about the quality of what they ship, and believe the best outcomes come from building together. About The Role VSCO is looking for a Senior Accountant to join our Accounting team and play an important role in both the day-to-day execution and continued evolution of our accounting operations. Reporting directly to the Director of Accounting, this is a hands-on role with meaningful ownership across the month-end close, general ledger, audit readiness, and accounting systems and automation. You’ll own key areas of the close while also helping us build smarter, more scalable processes as VSCO continues to grow. This is a great opportunity for an accountant who has built a strong technical foundation and is ready for greater ownership, visibility, and the opportuni
About the Team The Frontier Assurance team brings independent scrutiny into OpenAI’s safety decisions and helps the public understand and assess our safety work. We lead third-party assessments and safeguard testing for OpenAI’s flagship launches, pilot new assurance mechanisms such as embedded auditing, run our misalignment disclosure process, and incorporate independent expert input as evidence for critical safety decisions. About the Role As a Research Program Manager on the Frontier Assurance team, you will build programs that bring independent expertise into frontier AI safety decisions and make the evidence behind those decisions understandable to the public. You will lead external research partnerships and third-party assessments, coordinate public safety documentation, and develop new approaches to independent scrutiny and transparency. Working across research, engineering, product, policy, and communications, you will help ensure external findings inform concrete decisions and that our public explanations accurately reflect the evidence, limitations, and remaining uncertainty. We’re looking for people with deep experience in research partnerships and program management with technical and research teams. This role combines partnership management, cross-functional coordination, an understanding of AI safety research, alignment, and evaluations, and strong communication skills. You will work with researchers and engineers within OpenAI and across the external community to initiate projects, set ambitious goals and milestones, and drive execution across multiple teams. 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: Design and run third-party assessment programs for frontier models and safeguards, including independent evaluations, adversarial testing, and new approaches such as embedded auditing. Work with researchers and external part
About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives—from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming—all aimed at mitigating misuse, misalignment, and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency. Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI’s benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations. Within Safety Systems, the Model Policy team works to ensure that frontier models behave safely and reliably in real-world environments by designing policies that define safe model behavior. Some of our publications include: Safety at every step OpenAI GPT6 System Card OpenAI Model Spec About the Role We’re hiring a Model Policy Manager to shape model behavior for U.S. government use, with a focus on national security applications. You’ll define nuanced policies and translate them into training and evaluation criteria, helping models navigate high-stakes scenarios while preserving their usefulness and capabilities. In this role, you will: Develop model policies that guide safe and useful behavior. Build evaluations, identify policy gaps and model failures, and use findings to improve policies and training. Work with research, engineering, and domain experts to support safe, reliable deployment. You might thrive in this role if you: Bring relevant experience in AI safety, policy, or risk assessment. Have strong judgment and can turn complex safety questions into clear, practical policies. Have the technical fluency to work hands-on with model data and evaluations. Are motivated by OpenAI’s mission and the responsible use of
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Qualifications: 7+ years of quota carrying software or technology account management experience. Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, prioritization and management of multiple cross-functional work streams across internal and external stakeholders. Executive level communication skills - written and verbal. Relationship building (understand how to leverage internal/external executives, product, etc). Strong Commercial/Sales experience (contract negotiation, value-selling). Customer retention and termination-save tactics. Desire to get technical and the ability to learn the ins and outs of Plaid's APIs. Customer empathy and deep desire to see customers succeed. Some familiarity in financial services and technical products; a high degree of intellectual curiosity. Excitement to work in a high-growth, ever-changing environment and to help build processes and tools as needed. Responsibilities: Own and manage the overall relationship with your portfolio of customers in our fastest growing customer segment. Build strong relationships with customer C-Suite, Product and Engineering teams to retain and grow revenue. Own and exceed revenue growth targets, which includes identif
ROLE SUMMARY As a Business Consultant at Lynx, your primary role is to oversee our commercial projects, ensuring their successful journey from conception to full implementation. Your key responsibilities will encompass the entire project cycle, including defining critical milestones, resource planning, task allocation, mapping dependencies, and, most importantly, ensuring the timely delivery of results. You'll be the driving force behind our project execution, ensuring that our clients' objectives are met, and their expectations exceeded. If you thrive on taking ownership of projects and leading them to successful outcomes, we invite you to consider a career with Lynx. This role is a unique opportunity to contribute your project management expertise and make a tangible impact on our clients' businesses. Join us in delivering excellence one project at a time. WHAT THIS INVOLVES Accountability for end to end project delivery including commercial KPIs such as timely delivery, keeping within budget and at margin Leading all project stages including - contracting, scoping & kick-off, execution and post implementation reviews Collaborating with legal, business development, product and technical teams to ensure seamless execution Work with clients, technical staff and management to determine and resolve issues associated with project implementation Function as the liaison between our clients and our technical teams throughout the solution implementation cycle Building a strong relationship of trust and credibility with relevant client stakeholders both for the project and for Lynx as a company Build a motivating and collegiate working environment with the team aligned to our company’s core values To succeed in this role, you will need: A Bachelor’s Degree is required, preferably in a business discipline Experience in a Consultant role with Client Management and Project Management responsibilities Industry experience in the Healthcare or Pharmaceutical sectors either in
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Our Payments Risk team builds and operates decisioning capabilities across Signal and Guarantee. We help customers tune thresholds and rules so they can approve more good transactions while reducing returns. For Guarantee, this work also protects the economics of the risk Plaid underwrites. You will be the technical, customer-facing Payment Risk Consulting Lead for Signal and Guarantee. You will interpret model outputs, diagnose customer performance, and turn that analysis into concrete threshold and rules recommendations. You will own proofs of concept and retros, improve existing integrations, and help the team identify patterns that can be scaled through better processes and product capabilities. Responsibilities Own customer proofs of concept and retros from analysis through recommendations and follow-through. Proactively optimize Signal customers, prioritizing accounts with high return rates. Read model outputs and diagnose the drivers of authorization and return-rate performance. Recommend threshold and rules changes that align with each customer's risk and authorization goals. Help Guarantee customers tune thresholds to achieve target authorization rates while protecting lo
About the Role OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is responsible for ensuring our compute infrastructure scales efficiently to support millions of users and increasingly sophisticated AI models. We’re looking for a Data Scientist to partner closely with Capacity Systems Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, and Research to optimize inference capacity across our global GPU fleet. This role combines statistical modeling, large-scale data analysis, forecasting, and systems thinking to drive critical decisions around infrastructure investments, performance-efficiency trade-offs, and customer experience. You’ll transform complex operational data into actionable insights that directly influence how OpenAI allocates and scales one of the world’s largest AI compute environments. Key Responsibilities Build statistical and machine learning models to profile and improve GPU utilization, latency, throughput, and overall fleet efficiency. Develop forecasting models for inference demand across products, regions, and model families. Analyze production workloads to identify latency bottlenecks and capacity constraints, highlighting optimization opportunities. Partner with Capacity Systems Engineering to inform infrastructure planning and long-term GPU investment strategies. Design experiments and simulations to evaluate scheduling policies, serving strategies, and infrastructure tradeoffs. Build dashboards and operational metrics that enable leadership to make data-driven capacity decisions. Collaborate with Product, Research, Finance, and Infrastructure teams to align compute planning with business growth and model roadmaps. Communicate technical findings clearly to both engineering teams and executive leadership. Qualifications MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Economics, or related quantitative discipline (or equivalent industry experience). 5+ years of experience working in the infrastructure data science space. Strong ex
About the Team The Consumer Devices team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. We work at the intersection of custom silicon, embedded systems, operating systems, cloud services, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and product design to deliver reliable, production-ready devices at scale. Within Consumer Devices, Hardware Engineering eXperience, or HEX, is a new bootstrapped team building the environments, applications, compute, product-data systems, and workflows that let hardware engineers do their work without needing to troubleshoot the machinery underneath. HEX owns virtual engineering environments, HPC/GPU compute, storage, networking, licensing, MCAD/ECAD/CAE applications, PLM, product data, automation, validation, and support as one connected system. About the Role As a Staff PLM & Engineering Applications Engineer, you will be one of the first technical builders of HEX and the primary counterpart to the HEX lead. You will own the engineering-application and product-data side of the hardware engineering experience, with an initial focus on NX, Teamcenter, licensing, parts import, integrations, packaging, validation, and user workflows. This is not a traditional Teamcenter administration role and not a Corporate IT application-support role. You will take complex, fragile workflows and turn them into reliable engineering systems. This role is highly hands-on and systems-oriented. You will not inherit a mature environment and support queue. You will help build a fresh one, replacing manual setup guides, tribal knowledge, repeated support issues, and team handoffs with tested automation and reliable workflows. In This Role, You Will Own the technical architecture, deployment, configuration, integration, validation, and long-term operation of NX and Teamcenter. Build reliable workflows for parts import, product-data migration, metadata quality, BOMs, revisions, lifecycle states, and releas
About the Team OpenAI’s Healthcare team is working to ensure that advances in AI meaningfully improve health for everyone. We build AI systems that support patients, clinicians, and healthcare organizations while setting a high standard for deploying AI responsibly in a high-stakes domain. On the Healthcare team, we are building products and infrastructure that bring OpenAI’s capabilities into healthcare organizations and clinical workflows. We serve health care systems, insurance companies, and the broad range of healthcare IT companies. Our products include connecting ChatGPT with healthcare data and systems and building reliable enterprise experiences that can operate within complex security, privacy, compliance, and interoperability requirements. We work closely with product, research, design, security, privacy, GTM, and our healthcare customers to turn powerful AI capabilities into dependable products that clinicians and healthcare organizations use in their everyday work. About the Role We are looking for backend and full-stack software engineers to build the systems behind OpenAI’s healthcare products. You will work across backend services, APIs, data systems, integrations, and product surfaces to connect AI with healthcare workflows and enterprise data. You’ll tackle the technical challenges involved in making these systems secure, reliable, observable, and scalable enough for real-world healthcare environments. This is a product-engineering role for someone who can move between customer problems and complex system architecture, and who is comfortable owning ambiguous problems end-to-end. In this role, you will: Design and build backend and full-stack systems powering OpenAI’s healthcare products. Build services, APIs, and data pipelines that connect OpenAI products with healthcare systems and enterprise data. Develop integrations with electronic health records and other healthcare data sources. Design systems that meet demanding requirements around privacy,
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