OpenAI
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-10-12, Skillenai has indexed 421 OpenAI job postings over the past 90 days (down 48% vs the prior 4 weeks). OpenAI appeared in 27,102 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-12
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Hiring at OpenAI
Weekly OpenAI job postings — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles OpenAI is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 73 | 17.3% |
| Technical Program Manager | 41 | 9.7% |
| Applied AI Engineer | 24 | 5.7% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 17 | 4.0% |
| Data Scientist | 14 | 3.3% |
| Product Manager | 13 | 3.1% |
| Program Manager | 13 | 3.1% |
| AI Deployment Engineer | 11 | 2.6% |
| Engineering Manager | 10 | 2.4% |
| Product Designer | 9 | 2.1% |
Skills in OpenAI job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 144 | 34.2% |
| observability | 78 | 18.5% |
| Distributed systems | 71 | 16.9% |
| APIs | 68 | 16.2% |
| JavaScript | 52 | 12.4% |
| security | 52 | 12.4% |
| SQL | 46 | 10.9% |
| Rust | 42 | 10.0% |
| program management | 40 | 9.5% |
| incident response | 39 | 9.3% |
| debugging | 37 | 8.8% |
| automation | 36 | 8.6% |
| codex | 36 | 8.6% |
| privacy | 35 | 8.3% |
| machine learning | 35 | 8.3% |
Where OpenAI is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 274 | 65.1% |
| London | 18 | 4.3% |
| New York City | 12 | 2.9% |
| Singapore | 9 | 2.1% |
| Dublin | 6 | 1.4% |
| Munich | 6 | 1.4% |
| Seattle | 6 | 1.4% |
| Tokyo | 5 | 1.2% |
| Paris | 4 | 1.0% |
Who works at OpenAI
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- Natural Language Processing19%
- computer vision16%
- reinforcement learning11%
- resource allocation11%
- deep learning models11%
- GPT-48%
- deep learning5%
- filling out web forms5%
- docker5%
- machine learning models5%
- project planning5%
- novel algorithms5%
- research priorities5%
- web interfaces5%
- strategic leadership5%
- FAISS5%
Share of observed positions at OpenAI that list the skill.
Degree level
- Master30
- Bachelor17
- PhD9
- Other Professional1
Field of study
- Computer Science21
- Information Technology3
- MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS2
- Artificial Intelligence1
- Business Administration1
- Chemical Engineering1
- Computational Chemistry1
- Computer Engineering1
Schools
- Stanford University13
- Carnegie Mellon University8
- San Jose State University4
- University of Waterloo4
- University of California, Berkeley4
- Peking University3
- UC Irvine3
- University of Pennsylvania3
OpenAI in the news
27,102 news articles and 31,179 blog posts mentioned OpenAI in the last 90 days.
News
- Musk Let Grok Shop, Then Posted the Receipt -- AI Brief October 12artificiallyintimidating.com · October 12, 2026
- AI Governance Is Being Decided Now, and the Public Isn’t in the Roomtechpolicy.press · October 12, 2026
- TikTok CEO Predicts AI Scientific Breakthroughs Within Three Yearsaistify.com · October 12, 2026
- Fields Medalist Says OpenAI ‘Annihilated’ His Research Fieldaistify.com · October 12, 2026
- Zuckerberg Says Meta Has Caught Up With OpenAI and Anthropicaistify.com · October 12, 2026
- Geheime Pläne: KI-Bosse bereiten sich auf den „Tag danach“ vorfuturezone.at · October 12, 2026
Blogs
- Il direttore tecnologico di Palantir respinge le accuse sul ruolo dell’intelligenza artificiale nel tragico attacco in Iran e punta il dito contro l’errore umanoit.benzinga.com · October 12, 2026
- I Asked Muse to Help Me Book My Holiday Travel. It Didn’t Fly Far.gizmodo.com · October 12, 2026
- Give your LangGraph agent real-time web data with Apifyblog.apify.com · September 30, 2026
- How to ground a LlamaIndex RAG app in fresh web datablog.apify.com · October 1, 2026
- How to Keep a Discourse Post in Sync with an X Feedblog.discourse.org · October 8, 2026
- SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs to weaken 'Magnificent Seven' dominanceinvestorideas.com · May 22, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to OpenAI over the 90 days ending 2026-10-12; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
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