OpenAI hiring trends
What OpenAI's hiring actually looks like over time — which roles stay open, which get pulled, and where headcount is really going.
Last checked 02 October 2026
835
Open now
359
Filled or pulled
33
Teams hiring
Open the longest
A role that stays open for months usually means the bar is high, the pay is off, or nobody is saying yes.
| Role | Location | Opened |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher, Robustness & Safety Training | San Francisco | 3.4 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Data Acquisition | San Francisco | 3.0 years ago |
| Data Engineer | San Francisco | 3.0 years ago |
| Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering | San Francisco | 2.5 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Collective Communication | San Francisco | 2.4 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations | San Francisco | 2.3 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure | San Francisco | 2.3 years ago |
| Researcher, Alignment | San Francisco | 2.1 years ago |
| Security Engineer, Application Security | San Francisco | 2.0 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management | San Francisco | 1.9 years ago |
Roles posted more than once
These roles were taken down and then advertised again — a revolving door, and worth asking about in an interview.
| Role | Times posted |
|---|---|
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - NYC | 2 |
| Applied AI Engineer | 2 |
| Account Director, Large Enterprise | 2 |
| Applied AI Architect, Large Enterprise | 2 |
| Analytics Engineer, GTM | 2 |
| Enterprise Field Marketer | 2 |
This page gets better with age. It is built from a daily record that started the day we began watching OpenAI. Every day it runs, there is more history here that cannot be reconstructed from anywhere else — because the original posts are deleted.
Job posts get deleted. We keep them.
FirstIn watches company job boards at the source and tells you the moment a role opens — and keeps the record after it's taken down, so you can see what really happened to a team's hiring.