Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026
OpenAI Foundation is a nonprofit organisation whose stated mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It focuses on applying AI to areas such as medical research, healthcare, education and public services, and hires deployment engineers, philanthropy and opportunity development leads. The foundation is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
It is hiring: 13 open roles, 3 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2015
- Employees
- 51-200estimated range
- Open roles
- 13Alion job postings
- Website
- openaifoundation.org
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 13 open roles at OpenAI Foundation. OpenAI Foundation is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It was founded in 2015. The median pay stated in its open roles is $336k, across 7 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Management is the largest family, 24 of open roles.
3Posted in 30 days23% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 13
6Roles in AI86% of open roles
1Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
11 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States11On site
Remote, from elsewhere0Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Alion signals0-100
Demand31
Pay30
Your chance45
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 21This week
Open roles a week: 7 then, 0 now
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Management24▼
Finance18▲
Operations18▲
Leadership12▼
AI/ML6▼
Product6▼
Experience asked: 7.3 years on average, in 12 postings.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Full-Time 13
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
What its postings pay, by level.
$300kMedian
$190k – $580kTypical rangeUSD a year
$580kHighest paying roleHead of AI for Alzheimer’s
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 1 city in 1 country.
1Cities
1Countries
San FranciscoBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at OpenAI Foundation over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
6Technologies in use
11Postings analysed
90/100Stack modernityAI adopter
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Newsroom
top 2%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
4Hacker News storiesbest: 10 points
Sep 212026
Blog
The OpenAI Foundation joined the Gates Foundation and partners around the world in a shared commitment to ensure AI works across the world's languages.
Sep 152026
Blog
The OpenAI Foundation is supporting more than $125 million in grants to create and preserve high-quality scientific datasets for life sciences research.
Sep 102026
Blog
$60 million investment to bring AI-powered weather forecasting to 100 million smallholder farmers over 3 years.
Sep 92026
Blog
Paul Christiano will also join the Foundation's Safety and Security Committee.
Aug 202026
Blog
Join the OpenAI Foundation as we build programs advancing AI resilience, scientific discovery, civil society, and broad public benefit.
Aug 132026
Blog
Helping communities benefit from AI now and at scale-beginning with a $100 million commitment to improve health outcomes.
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
