OpenAI
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-10-30, Skillenai has indexed 423 OpenAI job postings over the past 90 days (down 13% vs the prior 4 weeks). OpenAI appeared in 28,527 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-30
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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 | 81 | 19.1% |
| Technical Program Manager | 39 | 9.2% |
| Applied AI Engineer | 29 | 6.9% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 16 | 3.8% |
| Program Manager | 16 | 3.8% |
| Engineering Manager | 13 | 3.1% |
| Security Engineer | 13 | 3.1% |
| Product Designer | 11 | 2.6% |
| Product Manager | 11 | 2.6% |
| Data Scientist | 9 | 2.1% |
Skills in OpenAI job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 153 | 36.2% |
| Distributed systems | 69 | 16.3% |
| observability | 69 | 16.3% |
| APIs | 63 | 14.9% |
| JavaScript | 53 | 12.5% |
| security | 50 | 11.8% |
| SQL | 46 | 10.9% |
| Rust | 42 | 9.9% |
| privacy | 36 | 8.5% |
| Go | 35 | 8.3% |
| TypeScript | 35 | 8.3% |
| incident response | 33 | 7.8% |
| machine learning | 32 | 7.6% |
| codex | 31 | 7.3% |
| automation | 29 | 6.9% |
Where OpenAI is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 260 | 61.5% |
| London | 15 | 3.5% |
| New York City | 14 | 3.3% |
| Munich | 8 | 1.9% |
| Paris | 6 | 1.4% |
| Seattle | 6 | 1.4% |
| Singapore | 6 | 1.4% |
| Tokyo | 5 | 1.2% |
| Washington | 5 | 1.2% |
Who works at OpenAI
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- Natural Language Processing18%
- computer vision16%
- deep learning models11%
- reinforcement learning11%
- GPT-411%
- resource allocation11%
- project planning5%
- machine learning models5%
- machine learning5%
- research priorities5%
- Deep Reinforcement Learning5%
- docker5%
- FAISS5%
- architectures5%
- deep learning5%
- novel algorithms5%
Share of observed positions at OpenAI that list the skill.
Degree level
- Master31
- 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 California, Berkeley4
- University of Waterloo4
- Peking University3
- UC Irvine3
- Columbia University3
OpenAI in the news
28,527 news articles and 32,690 blog posts mentioned OpenAI in the last 90 days.
News
- Wall Street Meets Its Limit: AI Giants’ Mega-Funding Ambitions Test Investor Patiencethecherrycreeknews.com · October 28, 2026
- AI Agents Are Acting on Their Own — and Nobody Can Actually Watch Them, Warn Researchersthecherrycreeknews.com · October 29, 2026
- Google's Gemini 4 Carbon promises 'significant leap' in AI coding and cybersecurityengadget.com · October 29, 2026
- Souveraineté & sécurité : « Hébergé en France » ne protège plus vos promptsglobalsecuritymag.fr · October 28, 2026
- Priorizar ciberseguridad sobre productividad en IA: Sam Altmanebankingnews.com · October 28, 2026
- Google presenta Gemini 4 Carbon: su IA más potenteebankingnews.com · October 28, 2026
Blogs
- UK Sovereign AI Ambitions Hit Grid Bottlenecks as Hyperscalers Retreatgeopoliticsofai.com · October 26, 2026
- Lusha vs Seamless.AI: pricing, contracts, MCP and data comparedlusha.com · October 16, 2026
- Lusha MCP tools: what each one does, by joblusha.com · October 16, 2026
- Lusha doesn’t just give you the phone number. It tells you who to call today, and why.lusha.com · October 19, 2026
- DeepSeek en Moonshot AI zouden GPT-6 Astra gebruiken voor trainingtechzine.nl · October 29, 2026
- Harness Engineeringenvisioning.com · October 4, 2026
How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to OpenAI over the 90 days ending 2026-10-30; 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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