Company · AI lab · board on Ashby, verified 2026-10-05
What OpenAI hires for
OpenAI lists 827 open roles; 59% of them are technical, and the largest family is Software Eng (163).
Open roles
827
827 new in 7 days
Technical (AI engineering)
59%
485 roles
Posted base (median range)
$251K–$370K
79% publish pay
Bay Area · remote
71% · 5%
Open roles by family
| Role family | Open roles, as a bar | Open roles |
|---|---|---|
| Software Eng | 163 | |
| GTM | 158 | |
| FDE / Applied | 103 | |
| Infra / Hardware | 87 | |
| Program / Ops | 74 | |
| G&A | 65 | |
| Security | 24 | |
| Research Engineer | 23 | |
| Other | 23 | |
| Evals / Data | 20 | |
| Safety / Policy | 20 | |
| Research Scientist | 19 | |
| Inference / Perf | 19 | |
| Product / Design | 16 | |
| AI / ML Engineer | 7 | |
| Field ops / Manufacturing | 6 |
What its technical postings ask for
Share of 485 technical postings that mention each skill; the company's description of itself is not counted.
| Skill | Share, as a bar | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 43% | |
| LLMs | 33% | |
| Evals | 22% | |
| Rust | 11% | |
| C++ | 11% | |
| Prompting | 9% | |
| TypeScript | 8% | |
| Go | 8% | |
| Kubernetes | 8% | |
| RL / post-training | 7% | |
| RAG / retrieval | 7% | |
| PyTorch | 2% | |
| Distributed training | 2% | |
| CUDA / Triton | 2% | |
| PhD | 1% | |
| Fine-tuning | 1% | |
| MCP | 1% | |
| vLLM / SGLang / TensorRT | 1% | |
| JAX | 0% |
Most recent OpenAI postings
- Total Rewards Business Partner, APACSingapore · G&A · first seen 2026-10-04
- Software Engineer, OpenAI PresenceSan Francisco · Software Eng · $230K–$385K base · first seen 2026-10-04
- Integrated Marketing Manager, HardwareSan Francisco · GTM · $225K–$250K base · first seen 2026-10-04
- Software Engineer, Enterprise ControlsSan Francisco · Software Eng · $230K–$385K base · first seen 2026-10-04
- Technical Program Manager, RoboticsSan Francisco · Program / Ops · $207K–$285K base · first seen 2026-10-03
- ITAV Event Technical ProducerSan Francisco · GTM · $240K–$266K base · first seen 2026-10-03
- People Technology Analyst, Workday PATT & BenefitsUS - Remote · G&A · $187K–$280K base · first seen 2026-10-03
- North America Vendor Lead, AdsSan Francisco · Other · $239K base · first seen 2026-10-03
- Strategic Sourcing Leader, Professional ServicesSan Francisco · Field ops / Manufacturing · $266K–$295K base · first seen 2026-10-03
- Vendor Security Technical Program ManagerUS - Remote · Program / Ops · $231K–$257K base · first seen 2026-10-03