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How OpenAI hires
Truth index
B 77/100
Median time to fill
51 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
91%
Reposted roles
0%
OpenAI scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 191 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 91% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 51 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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Overview
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015 with the mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It develops the GPT family of large language models and turns them into consumer and developer products, including the ChatGPT assistant, the Sora video model, the Codex coding agent and a commercial API used by millions of developers. Structured as a public benefit corporation controlled by a non-profit foundation, the company is backed by Microsoft and SoftBank and operates from San Francisco.
News
Tuberville talks to ChatGPT on long drives: 'You don't know whether or not they're 100% right'
The senator, who is seeking the governor's house, was one of several lawmakers who spoke about their use of artificial intelligence tools.
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ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year
Worldwide AI-chatbot web visits: ChatGPT 76% 54%. Gemini 6% 28%. Claude 1% 9%. This is not monthly users and not revenue. See who took the share
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Saber CEO Apologizes To Lead Writer Replaced With ChatGPT
Hopefully putting a fork in this embarrassing stitch, Matt Karch delivered a private apology to the lead Rideshare "Simulator" writer subjected to his stinky, snarky rant
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Can AI Find the Perfect Gift? I Tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Alexa to See Which Worked Best - AOL
Everyone has at least one person who seems impossible to shop for. They already own what they need, buy what they want and rarely offer useful hints. If that person is on your gift list, you've probably exhausted the usual wish lists, gift guides and
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I Asked ChatGPT How To Retire on Dividends Alone - Is It Actually Realistic? - AOL
I asked ChatGPT whether retiring on dividends is actually possible to do. The answer was yes, but with a major asterisk that you'll need to achieve first.
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ChatGPT subscribers can now open and edit Google Drive files from inside the chat
ChatGPT is rolling out a deeper integration with Google Drive, allowing users to add Google Drive files to their ChatGPT Library and edit documents without leaving the chat. Here are the details.
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ChatGPT Already Knows Who It'll Recommend Before It Searches
ChatGPT writes brand names into its own search queries before fetching a page. I read 60 conversations to find when it happens and what gets you named.
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ChatGPT Wallet: OpenAI Is Building Agentic Payments
Windows Codex app code reveals a ChatGPT Wallet flow with secure card entry and saved payment methods for tasks carried out by OpenAI's agents.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at OpenAI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
216
Postings analysed
1,152
Stack modernity
68/100AI adopter
Languages
Python26%
JavaScript10%
SQL8%
Rust7%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js1%
PyTorch1%
TensorFlow1%
FastAPI1%
Databases
PostgreSQL1%
MySQL1%
Snowflake<1%
Amazon Redshift<1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux3%
Kubernetes3%
AWS3%
Azure2%
AI & ML
LLM6%
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Full OpenAI tech stack
216 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$380k
Typical range
$132k – $850k
Open positions
622
386
Jobs
Junior
2.1%
Middle
7%
Senior
33.9%
Staff
45.1%
Principal
1.3%
Architect
10.6%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 8 | $338k | $140k – $500k |
| Middle | 27 | $385k | $190k – $536k |
| Senior | 131 | $325k | $180k – $515k |
| Staff | 174 | $318k | $132k – $555k |
| Principal | 5 | $423k | $318k – $510k |
| Architect | 41 | $318k | $200k – $555k |
Highest paying role
RE / RS - Foundations, Search
$850k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at OpenAI
By role, level and city, against the market · 622 jobs with pay
Products
Whisper
Whisper is OpenAI's open-source automatic speech recognition model trained on a large multilingual audio corpus. It transcribes and translates speech across dozens of languages and is widely used for captioning, meeting notes and voice interfaces.
openai.com
DALL-E
DALL-E is OpenAI's text-to-image generation model, offered inside ChatGPT and through the API. It produces and edits illustrations, product imagery and concept art from written descriptions and supports inpainting on existing pictures.
openai.com
Codex
Codex is OpenAI's software engineering agent that reads a repository, writes code, runs tests and prepares pull requests from natural-language instructions. It is available in the terminal, the IDE and the cloud for parallel long-running tasks.
openai.com
Sora
Sora is OpenAI's text-to-video model and companion app that generates short cinematic clips from written prompts, images or existing footage. It supports storyboarding, remixing and character continuity for creative and marketing work.
sora.com
API
The OpenAI API is a commercial developer platform that exposes the company's language, reasoning, image, audio and embedding models over HTTP. It adds agent tooling, function calling, fine-tuning and evaluation services so teams can embed the models into their own applications.
platform.openai.com
ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022. It uses GPT-5, a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT), to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period of rapid investment in and public attention to the field of artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI operates the service on a freemium model.
chatgpt.com
People
Sam Altman
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI and serves as its chief executive, setting strategy, leading fundraising and steering the company's compute and product bets. He was previously president of Y Combinator.
Greg Brockman
Co-Founder & President
Greg Brockman co-founded OpenAI and leads technical execution across research infrastructure and product engineering. He was chief technology officer of Stripe before joining the lab.
Ilya Sutskever
Co-Founder & former Chief Scientist
Ilya Sutskever co-founded OpenAI and shaped its research agenda as chief scientist, building on his deep learning work at Google Brain. He left the company in 2024 to start his own safety-focused laboratory.
Brad Lightcap
Chief Operating Officer
Brad Lightcap runs OpenAI's business operations, commercial partnerships and go-to-market organisation. He joined from Y Combinator's continuity fund and previously served as the company's chief financial officer.
Jakub Pachocki
Chief Scientist
Jakub Pachocki leads OpenAI's research organisation and its work on reasoning models and frontier training runs. He joined the lab in 2017 and previously led its reinforcement learning efforts.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
782
173 opened / 219 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
55 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
13%
AI/ML
12%
Sales
11%
Backend
10% ▼
Operations
7%
Product
5%
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+29 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added SOAP to stack
Oct 2026
Added MuleSoft to stack
Oct 2026
Added ElasticSearch to stack
Oct 2026
Added NIST 800-53 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Stable-Baselines3 to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Berlin
Sep 2026
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added Combine to stack
Sep 2026
Added AWS Bedrock to stack
Sep 2026
Added Lua to stack
Sep 2026
Added Quantization to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Bengaluru
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
22
Hiring now
22
Countries
15
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
564 open roles 526 posted in 90 days 55% engineering 2% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $369k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Product
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
88 open roles 84 posted in 90 days 45% engineering 8% remote 500-1000 est. staff $345k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Marketing
Seattle
United States
Plant / site
85 open roles 52 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 9% remote 500-1000 est. staff $366k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Marketing
Singapore
Singapore
Plant / site
38 open roles 34 posted in 90 days 24% engineering 200-500 est. staff $269k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, AI/ML, Marketing
Washington
United States
Regional office
33 open roles 41 posted in 90 days 24% engineering 3% remote 200-500 est. staff $295k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Operations, Sales
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
33 open roles 36 posted in 90 days 73% engineering 200-500 est. staff $416k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Solutions
Tokyo
Japan
Engineering / R&D
28 open roles 19 posted in 90 days 36% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Marketing, Sales
Dublin
Ireland
Regional office
17 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 24% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales, Support, AI/ML
Mountain View
United States
Engineering / R&D
13 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 92% engineering 50-200 est. staff $409k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Data Science
Munich
Germany
Engineering / R&D
10 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Marketing, Management
Sydney
Australia
Sales office
10 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, AI/ML, Sales
Paris
France
Engineering / R&D
8 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 38% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Marketing, HR
Seoul
South Korea
Sales office
8 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, AI/ML, Sales
São Paulo
Brazil
Regional office
6 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Product, Marketing
Mumbai
India
Sales office
5 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, AI/ML
Delhi
India
Sales office
5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, AI/ML
Bengaluru
India
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Solutions
Madrid
Spain
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Solutions
Stockholm
Sweden
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing
Zurich
Switzerland
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Solutions
The Elegant (HeadsQuarter) 3rd floor Beethovenstrasse 48
Berlin
Germany
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Marketing
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Financials
Total raised
$179.6B
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $122B | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $40B | $300B | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $6.6B | $157B | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $10B | — | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2019 | $1B | — |
Key Investors
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures was among the earliest institutional backers of OpenAI, investing in its first for-profit round in 2019. The Menlo Park firm focuses on deep technology and frontier science bets.
khoslaventures.com
SoftBank
SoftBank Group led OpenAI's 2025 financing and is a partner in the Stargate data centre programme. The Japanese conglomerate invests in technology companies through its Vision Fund vehicles.
softbank.jp
Thrive Capital
Thrive Capital is a New York growth equity firm that led OpenAI's 2024 funding round. It invests in internet, software and financial technology companies at late stage.
thrivecap.com
Microsoft
Microsoft is OpenAI's largest strategic investor and cloud partner, having committed roughly thirteen billion dollars since 2019. The partnership supplies OpenAI with Azure capacity and gives Microsoft commercial rights to the models.
microsoft.com