AI Talent Matrix Company Profile
OpenAI
Foundation Model · San Francisco, CA, USA
Matrix Employer Score™
98.75
High confidence
Employer Intelligence Evidence
Evidence-backed signals supporting our assessment of this AI employer.
AI ImpactHigh Confidence1005 evidence itemsView evidence
Supporting signal
Frontier Model Adoption & AI Impact
Frontier Model Adoption & AI Impact
High Confidence
Sep 26, 2026
OpenAI products operate at global consumer, developer and enterprise scale; Codex reached 3M weekly active users and OpenAI APIs process more than 15B tokens per minute.
Global Ai Scale
High Confidence
Sep 26, 2026
OpenAI products operate at global consumer, developer and enterprise scale; Codex reached 3M weekly active users and OpenAI APIs process more than 15B tokens per minute.
Frontier Model Adoption & AI Impact
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra as a new generation of frontier intelligence with strong performance across computer use, software engineering, cybersecurity, science and professional work.
Frontier Model Capability
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra as a new generation of frontier intelligence with strong performance across computer use, software engineering, cybersecurity, science and professional work.
Enterprise Adoption
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
OpenAI reported that more than one million businesses had adopted its products and APIs.
AI LeadershipHigh Confidence1005 evidence itemsView evidence
Supporting signal
Frontier Research & Model Leadership
Frontier Research & Model Leadership
High Confidence
Sep 26, 2026
OpenAI develops frontier general-purpose models and agentic products spanning ChatGPT, Codex, multimodal systems and enterprise agents.
Frontier Models Agents
High Confidence
Sep 26, 2026
OpenAI develops frontier general-purpose models and agentic products spanning ChatGPT, Codex, multimodal systems and enterprise agents.
Frontier Research & Model Leadership
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
The Recursive Self-Improvement team works on automating research workflows across model training, evaluation, deployment, research agents and experiment orchestration.
Frontier Reasoning Research
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
The RL and Reasoning team develops reinforcement-learning methods, next-generation generative models and general-purpose agents, and previously created systems including o1 and o3.
Research Automation
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
The Recursive Self-Improvement team works on automating research workflows across model training, evaluation, deployment, research agents and experiment orchestration.
Employer StrengthHigh Confidence996 evidence itemsView evidence
Supporting signal
Frontier AI Employer Strength
Frontier AI Employer Strength
High Confidence
Sep 26, 2026
OpenAI combines frontier research, global product distribution, enterprise revenue, API infrastructure and large-scale compute partnerships.
Frontier Lab Scale
High Confidence
Sep 26, 2026
OpenAI combines frontier research, global product distribution, enterprise revenue, API infrastructure and large-scale compute partnerships.
Frontier AI Employer Strength
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
OpenAI reported that Stargate had already surpassed its original 10GW U.S. AI-infrastructure target, with more than 3GW added in the prior 90 days.
Deployment Capacity
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
OpenAI launched a Deployment Company with more than $4 billion of initial investment and approximately 150 experienced Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Specialists expected to join through the Tomoro acquisition.
Stargate Infrastructure Scale
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
OpenAI reported that Stargate had already surpassed its original 10GW U.S. AI-infrastructure target, with more than 3GW added in the prior 90 days.
Stargate Deployment Footprint
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
OpenAI has continued expanding Stargate across multiple U.S. sites and international projects, supporting training and serving of frontier systems at multi-gigawatt scale.
Market TransferabilityHigh Confidence1004 evidence itemsView evidence
Supporting signal
Frontier AI Skill Transferability
Frontier AI Skill Transferability
High Confidence
Sep 26, 2026
Foundation-model, agent, multimodal, systems and developer-platform skills transfer exceptionally broadly across nearly all frontier AI categories.
Frontier Ai Portability
High Confidence
Sep 26, 2026
Foundation-model, agent, multimodal, systems and developer-platform skills transfer exceptionally broadly across nearly all frontier AI categories.
Frontier AI Skill Transferability
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
The Codex Research team trains frontier agents across coding, tool use, computer use, multi-agent coordination and long-horizon execution.
Frontier Agent Engineering
High Confidence
Sep 19, 2026
The Codex Research team trains frontier agents across coding, tool use, computer use, multi-agent coordination and long-horizon execution.
Matrix Employer Score™ components are supported by structured employer evidence, versioned methodologies, and confidence ratings.
Hiring Signal
Hiring
Employer Signal
99
Hiring Opportunity
64
Hiring change tracking · Pilot
Public hiring snapshot
Observed . This is a dated snapshot, not a live vacancy count.
- Public listing records
- 806
- First observed
- 20
- No longer observed
- 22
- Record changed
- 1
Compared with . First observed means absent from that earlier snapshot; it is not the original posting date.
View examples of observed changes
First observed · 20
- Strategic Finance Partner, GPT Infra ↗San Francisco
- Procurement Coordinator ↗San Francisco
- Data Program Manager, Science ↗San Francisco
- Compensation Operations Analyst ↗San Francisco
- Account Director, Enterprise | ANZ ↗Sydney, Australia
Showing 5 of 20 records.
No longer observed · 22
- Head of Marketplace ↗New York City
- Applied AI Engineer ↗Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Consumer Marketing Lead, Korea ↗Seoul, South Korea
- EMEA Vendor Lead, Ad Sales ↗Dublin, Ireland
- Support Delivery Lead ↗San Francisco
Showing 5 of 22 records.
Record changed · 1
- Senior Technical Recruiter, ↗US - Remote
Listing records can cover multiple locations or vacancies. Changes do not establish hires, filled roles, layoffs, workforce growth, or changes to Matrix Employer Score™. Two observations are insufficient to establish a hiring trend.
Record changes can reflect titles, locations, source publication/update timestamps, or source URLs (including pagination links). A changed record does not necessarily mean a changed role. Job descriptions are not compared. Links for records no longer observed may be inactive.
Company Overview
Employer Snapshot
AI Category
Foundation Model
Primary Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded
2015
Employees
1000
Why AI Talent Watches OpenAI
OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The company develops frontier AI models, developer platforms, and enterprise AI solutions, including ChatGPT, GPT models, Sora, Codex, and the OpenAI API, serving millions of users and organizations worldwide.
Why Join
Build frontier AI systems used by hundreds of millions of people while collaborating with some of the world's leading AI researchers and engineers. Ideal for candidates seeking maximum technical challenge and industry impact.
Employer Intelligence
Hiring: Hiring
Talent Competition: Exceptional
Technical Bar: Exceptional
AI Talent Matrix Confidence: High confidence
Recent Employer Signals
Research Culture & Governance
A former OpenAI safety employee who had worked on major-launch safety reports and the company's Preparedness Framework resigned and publicly criticized the pace and safety culture of frontier AI development. OpenAI has defended its safety practices and described additional work on research security, monitoring, third-party evaluation, and risk controls.
AI Talent Matrix interpretation
This is a governance, research-culture, and retention signal that merits continued observation. A single departure does not establish the overall quality of OpenAI's culture and does not automatically change Matrix Employer Score™.
Talent Intelligence
Matrix Employer Score™ Breakdown
Core Employer Intelligence
AI Impact
100
AI Leadership
100
Employer Strength
99
Market Transferability
100
Career & Workplace
Career Growth
100
Compensation
100
Engineering Culture
100
Work-Life Balance
90
Evidence-Backed Signals
Career Upside
100
Talent Density
100
Hiring Opportunity
64
Talent & Career Programs
Remote Policy
Hybrid
Visa Sponsorship
Yes
Internship Program
Available
New Grad Program
Available
AI Focus
Foundation Models
Flagship Products
ChatGPT GPT-4.1 GPT-5 Sora Codex OpenAI API
Data & Methodology
How AI Talent Matrix interprets this employer
Last Updated
8/1/2026 10:48am
AI Talent Matrix Confidence
High confidence
Methodology
View Matrix Employer Score™ Methodology →AI Talent Matrix scores and signals are comparative employer-intelligence indicators and should not be interpreted as guarantees of hiring, compensation, career outcomes, or individual fit.
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