OpenAI
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-09-29, Skillenai has indexed 413 OpenAI job postings over the past 90 days (up 14% vs the prior 4 weeks). OpenAI appeared in 25,772 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-29
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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 | 69 | 16.7% |
| Technical Program Manager | 37 | 9.0% |
| AI Deployment Engineer | 22 | 5.3% |
| Applied AI Engineer | 22 | 5.3% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 17 | 4.1% |
| Product Manager | 15 | 3.6% |
| Data Scientist | 13 | 3.1% |
| Engineering Manager | 11 | 2.7% |
| Program Manager | 11 | 2.7% |
| Research Engineer | 9 | 2.2% |
Skills in OpenAI job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 146 | 35.4% |
| observability | 76 | 18.4% |
| Distributed systems | 68 | 16.5% |
| APIs | 66 | 16.0% |
| JavaScript | 58 | 14.0% |
| security | 47 | 11.4% |
| SQL | 42 | 10.2% |
| Rust | 42 | 10.2% |
| debugging | 40 | 9.7% |
| program management | 37 | 9.0% |
| machine learning | 37 | 9.0% |
| TypeScript | 37 | 9.0% |
| incident response | 35 | 8.5% |
| codex | 35 | 8.5% |
| Go | 34 | 8.2% |
Where OpenAI is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 267 | 64.6% |
| London | 19 | 4.6% |
| New York City | 13 | 3.1% |
| Singapore | 9 | 2.2% |
| Tokyo | 7 | 1.7% |
| Dublin | 6 | 1.5% |
| Seattle | 6 | 1.5% |
| Madrid | 5 | 1.2% |
| Munich | 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 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
- Master16
- Bachelor6
- PhD4
- Other Professional1
Field of study
- Computer Science10
- Information Technology3
- Business Administration1
- Computer Science and Engineering1
- Computer Science and Technology1
- Computer Science Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning1
- Economics1
- Electrical and Power Transmission Installation/Installer1
Schools
- Stanford University5
- Carnegie Mellon University4
- University of Waterloo2
- UCLA2
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
- Peking University2
- Harvard University2
- University of Southern California2
OpenAI in the news
25,772 news articles and 29,047 blog posts mentioned OpenAI in the last 90 days.
News
- Autonomous AI Agents Expose Gaps In Web Securityelectronicsforu.com · September 28, 2026
- Varují před riziky AI. Jejich agenti mezitím vnikli do Medicarejarvis-ai.cz · September 28, 2026
- The TechBeat: The HackerNoon Newsletter: MCP Was Declared Dead (8/30/2026) (9/28/2026)hackernoon.com · September 28, 2026
- AI Is a Force Multiplier: What Are We Multiplying?hackernoon.com · September 28, 2026
- AI News Today: Microsoft Unveils an Always-On Copilot + 5 Tech Updates — September 28, 2026digitalstrategy-ai.com · September 28, 2026
- ChatGPT se renueva con GPT-6 Sol, Luna y un nuevo Voiceitsitio.com · September 28, 2026
Blogs
- Unleashing the Power of AI in Business Intelligence: Document Classification using OpenAI and ChromaDBlexis.solutions · May 29, 2025
- AI Forecasters Beat Humans in Tournamentai-street.co · September 24, 2026
- xAI's Grok Team Bots Give Entire Teams One Shared AI Agentalphasignal.ai · September 28, 2026
- The Note the Model Left Itselfblog.akshatuniyal.com · September 20, 2026
- UiPath Enhances and Strengthens UiPath Platform™itvoice.in · September 28, 2026
- Tracking Singularitysankalp.bearblog.dev · September 25, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to OpenAI over the 90 days ending 2026-09-29; 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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