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 19 August 2026
756
Open now
17
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 | 3.2 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Data Acquisition | San Francisco | 2.9 years ago |
| Data Engineer | San Francisco | 2.9 years ago |
| Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering | San Francisco | 2.4 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Collective Communication | San Francisco | 2.3 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations | San Francisco | 2.2 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure | San Francisco | 2.1 years ago |
| Researcher, Alignment | San Francisco | 2.0 years ago |
| Security Engineer, Application Security | San Francisco | 1.9 years ago |
| Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management | San Francisco | 1.8 years ago |
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.