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AI Systems Engineer a new title on company job boards

Engineering · Emerging, unverified · not on Hacker News yet · 1 open roles at 1 company · median $308k

First sighting

Builds and runs the systems around AI models, from the harnesses that make coding agents dependable to a company's own AI tools, access and spend.

New: first seen May 2026, job board

Why it exists

Written by rule from our own data

First seen in our data in May 2026, in a company job-board posting from OpenAI. Today 1 open role uses the title at 1 company, most of them in AI labs.

  1. PostingThe oldest AI Systems Engineer posting we holdOpenAI, May 2026 · backs: first sighting
  2. PostingAI Systems Engineer, Codex AgentsOpenAI, May 2026 · backs: an open posting with the title

Where it is posted

Sectors

  • AI lab1

Cities

  • San Francisco1

Countries and remote

  • United States1
Remote option0%

Posted pay

Median $308k from 1 postings that state a base range (USD a year).

Who is hiring for it

Open postings on their own job boards, read 5h ago
#CompanyOpen roles
1OpenAIAn American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California.1

Open roles

Open role$230k to $385k

AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents

San Francisco

OpenAIPosting ↗
Role
AI Systems Engineer, Codex AgentsOpenAISan Francisco$230k to $385k

Share of Hacker News hiring posts

1 posts since Apr 2011 · new in 6 months
November 2026 0 of 207 postings, 0%
3-month averageEach monthFirst sighting

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About this title

Builds and runs the systems around AI models, from the harnesses that make coding agents dependable to a company's own AI tools, access and spend.

First sighting
Charly | (Founding) AI Systems Engineer | 60-100k EUR | On-site Berlin | Seed | 7 headcount, 5 in engineering...
Charly, Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

4 open postings titled "AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents" or close to it at 3 companies (job-board scan, 2026-09-25). One of the postings. Not checked by hand yet.

Median posted salary $308k from 1 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.