OpenAI: 279 open roles — San Francisco, USA

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building general-purpose artificial intelligence, including the models behind ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.

People & hiring

Company scale, with the denominator visible

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Current open roles

279-22

Change versus 2026-10-07.

Technical open roles

13649%

Classified from the same current vacancies. This is a hiring mix, not the employee mix.

279

Current openings · ≤30 days

604 older active postings

2015

Founded

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Rating

Live vacancy evidence

Technology coverage at OpenAI

Coverage always uses all 279 active roles as the denominator. Scope only changes which requirement signals count.

Active roles: 279
Technologies: 40
Hard mentions: 182

AI

278 of 279 roles

100%

Core: 14%
Required: 13%
Context: 65%
Nice: 8%

Reliability Engineering

98 of 279 roles

35%

Core: 1%
Required: 9%
Context: 89%
Nice: 1%

Automation

51 of 279 roles

18%

Core: 0%
Required: 20%
Context: 63%
Nice: 18%

Machine Learning

35 of 279 roles

13%

Core: 6%
Required: 14%
Context: 71%
Nice: 9%

Full Stack

24 of 279 roles

9%

Core: 17%
Required: 0%
Context: 83%
Nice: 0%

Cloud

44 of 279 roles

16%

Core: 0%
Required: 16%
Context: 73%
Nice: 11%

Python

64 of 279 roles

23%

Core: 0%
Required: 9%
Context: 88%
Nice: 3%

API

35 of 279 roles

13%

Core: 9%
Required: 0%
Context: 89%
Nice: 3%

Backend

34 of 279 roles

12%

Core: 3%
Required: 9%
Context: 85%
Nice: 3%

Data Science

21 of 279 roles

8%

Core: 0%
Required: 24%
Context: 71%
Nice: 5%

SQL

20 of 279 roles

7%

Core: 0%
Required: 25%
Context: 70%
Nice: 5%

Scalability

104 of 279 roles

37%

Core: 0%
Required: 4%
Context: 90%
Nice: 6%

Linux

6 of 279 roles

2%

Core: 17%
Required: 33%
Context: 50%
Nice: 0%

Rust

8 of 279 roles

3%

Core: 0%
Required: 38%
Context: 50%
Nice: 13%

C

7 of 279 roles

3%

Core: 0%
Required: 43%
Context: 57%
Nice: 0%

Statistics

5 of 279 roles

2%

Core: 0%
Required: 60%
Context: 20%
Nice: 20%

Distributed Systems

29 of 279 roles

10%

Core: 0%
Required: 7%
Context: 86%
Nice: 7%

Frontend

23 of 279 roles

8%

Core: 4%
Required: 0%
Context: 96%
Nice: 0%

Firmware

12 of 279 roles

4%

Core: 0%
Required: 17%
Context: 67%
Nice: 17%

C++

7 of 279 roles

3%

Core: 0%
Required: 29%
Context: 57%
Nice: 14%

REST

4 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 50%
Context: 50%
Nice: 0%

Ethernet

3 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 67%
Context: 33%
Nice: 0%

DevOps

1 of 279 roles

0%

Core: 100%
Required: 0%
Context: 0%
Nice: 0%

TypeScript

24 of 279 roles

9%

Core: 0%
Required: 4%
Context: 92%
Nice: 4%

AI Agents

9 of 279 roles

3%

Core: 0%
Required: 11%
Context: 89%
Nice: 0%

Cybersecurity

9 of 279 roles

3%

Core: 0%
Required: 11%
Context: 78%
Nice: 11%

DNS

4 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 25%
Context: 75%
Nice: 0%

Azure

3 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 33%
Context: 67%
Nice: 0%

React.js

3 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 33%
Context: 67%
Nice: 0%

RTL

3 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 33%
Context: 0%
Nice: 67%

ASIC

2 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 50%
Context: 50%
Nice: 0%

AWS

2 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 50%
Context: 50%
Nice: 0%

Redfish

2 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 50%
Context: 50%
Nice: 0%

Terraform

2 of 279 roles

1%

Core: 0%
Required: 50%
Context: 50%
Nice: 0%

BGP

1 of 279 roles

0%

Core: 0%
Required: 100%
Context: 0%
Nice: 0%

GCP

1 of 279 roles

0%

Core: 0%
Required: 100%
Context: 0%
Nice: 0%

Git

1 of 279 roles

0%

Core: 0%
Required: 100%
Context: 0%
Nice: 0%

Grafana

1 of 279 roles

0%

Core: 0%
Required: 100%
Context: 0%
Nice: 0%

High Availability

1 of 279 roles

0%

Core: 0%
Required: 100%
Context: 0%
Nice: 0%

Prometheus

1 of 279 roles

0%

Core: 0%
Required: 100%
Context: 0%
Nice: 0%

Curated company stack

Company-level metadata, kept separate from live vacancy requirements.

PythonPyTorchKubernetesGoRustTypeScriptReactDistributed SystemsMachine LearningAI

Perks & Benefits

✓Frontier AI research

✓Career growth

✓Benefits

✓Equity

✓Global impact

Company Details

Industry

Artificial Intelligence

Company size

1000+

Headquarters

San Francisco, USA

Founded

2015

Domain

openai.com

Rating

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Open roles

279

Technical roles

136 of 279

Observed hiring change

+14 roles

Hiring and market history

Daily vacancy snapshots show this company’s observed hiring; no standalone public ticker is assigned.

Open roles

Vacancy history

Current role mix

136 technical · 143 other

49% of currently observed roles are technical.

Employee perspectives

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Published about OpenAI

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Independent · TechCrunchOct 8, 2026

OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected

It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.

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Independent · TechCrunchOct 8, 2026

OpenAI’s math solutions aren’t meeting the field’s standards yet

OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.

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Independent · The VergeOct 8, 2026

USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI

USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing on Thursday, the publisher asks for damages of more than $250 million, alleging OpenAI's unauthorized use of […]

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Official · openai.comOct 8, 2026

How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

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Independent · The VergeOct 8, 2026

Can you trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life?

My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a minute now — homebrew OpenClaw setups led to a surge in Mac Mini sales earlier […]

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Official · openai.comOct 8, 2026

Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI

With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.

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Official · openai.comOct 8, 2026

Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

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Independent · TechCrunchOct 7, 2026

OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — days after the launch of Dots

OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos is coming to the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, just days after the launch of Dots. Join this conversation by registering for your pass. Get you pass now to save up to $100 and get a second at 50% off.

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