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AI research and product company building ChatGPT, the GPT family, DALL-E, Sora, and developer APIs.

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Open roles at OpenAI

Data Scientist, PreparednessSan Francisco · On-site · $265,000 - $380,000/year
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - SFSan Francisco · Hybrid · $185,000 - $300,000/year
Electrical Engineer, Power GenerationSan Francisco · On-site · $257,000 - $327,000/year
Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise - EDUSan Francisco, New York City · Remote (Restricted) · $251,000 - $278,000/year
Mechanical Engineer, Power GenerationSan Francisco · On-site · $257,000 - $327,000/year
Controls Engineer, Power Generation and MicrogirdSan Francisco · On-site · $257,000 - $327,000/year
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - NYCNew York City · Hybrid · $185,000 - $300,000/year
Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise - Healthcare Life Sciences (HLS)San Francisco, New York City · Remote (Restricted) · $251,000 - $278,000/year
Robotics Test EngineerSan Francisco · On-site · $225,000 - $318,000/year
Business Systems Transformation Lead, Procure-to-PaySan Francisco · Hybrid · $240,000 - $266,000/year

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Hiring activity

New roles, 30 days: 150
New roles, 90 days: 415
Closed, 90 days: 300
Median days listed: 48

New roles Closed

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Pay

All levelsn = 494

$210.3K to $445K typical (p25-p75), $240K to $385K median

Midn = 162

$185K to $405K typical (p25-p75), $230K to $385K median

Seniorn = 328

$225K to $445K typical (p25-p75), $257K to $385K median

About

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization that develops large language models and generative AI systems. Founded on December 8, 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, and others, the company is headquartered at 1455 3rd Street in San Francisco. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 catalyzed mainstream adoption of generative AI across industries.

Products
The lineup spans ChatGPT (with Deep Research, Search, Atlas, and Health variants), the GPT family of large language models (GPT-4, GPT-5.5, o1, o3), DALL-E for text-to-image, Sora for text-to-video, Whisper for speech recognition, Operator (AI agent), OpenAI Codex, and broad API access.

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