San Francisco$207k – $335k+ equity
OpenAI jobs
OpenAI has 58 open roles on this board, and 7 were posted in the last 30 days, the largest share in post-training & rl. Frontier lab.
Develops general-purpose AI models and agents. Its roles on this board include agent safety, model evaluation and post-training.
Official company source · Research / engineering · Context reviewed 9 September 2026
Employer-wide hiring intelligence · 2026-10-09
What OpenAI is hiring for beyond evals
This page tracks the AI-evals roles relevant to this board, but our crawler observes the employer's complete public careers feed so we can measure the broader hiring context too. On 2026-10-09, we observed 817 open postings in the employer feed; 59 matched this board's evaluation, post-training, safety or human-data taxonomy.
817all observed openings
59evals-board openings
267posted in last 30d
4%marked remote
80%publish pay
- Largest departments
- Go To Market (145) · Scaling (115) · Applied AI (111) · Research (62)
- Largest locations
- San Francisco (584) · New York City (89) · Seattle (86) · US - Remote (42)
Method: one canonical posting per employer-feed job, source-observed on 2026-10-09. The broader count includes roles that do not belong on AI Evals Jobs; those roles remain out of the public job board. Historical velocity and opening/closure trends will appear only after enough daily observations accumulate.
What they are hiring for
Post-Training & RL
18
Alignment & Interpretability
14
Evals & Benchmarks
11
Red Team & Safeguards
9
Human Data & Annotation
6
Pay. Every one of them states a salary band, from $198k to $536k. Where. San Francisco, CA (57), London, UK (3), Seattle, WA (2), Washington, DC (2). Most recent posting date. 2026-09-29.
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OpenAI careers: pay, location and applications
Board snapshot: 2026-10-09. This independent directory covers 58 relevant listings, not every vacancy at OpenAI.
What do these OpenAI jobs pay?
- USD 198,000–536,000 per year across 58 listings with a usable published range.
These are the lowest and highest advertised endpoints within each currency and pay period, not an average or an offer. Scope and experience differ by role; check whether the original listing describes base pay or another form of compensation.
Does OpenAI offer remote roles?
2 of these 58 listings are marked remote. Remote does not necessarily mean worldwide: check the location, work authorization and time-zone requirements on the employer’s listing.
How do I apply?
Open a role below and use its Apply link to reach the employer’s application page. Saving a role here keeps a shortlist; it does not submit an application.
Seattle$437k – $485k+ equity
San Francisco$266k – $335k+ equity
San Francisco$207k – $335k+ equity
San Francisco · Washington, DC +1Remote listed$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$239k – $328k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$295k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$207k – $385k+ equity
San Francisco$293k – $325k+ equity
San Francisco$266k – $445k+ equity
San Francisco$342k – $399k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
OpenAI
Program Manager, Human Data
San Francisco$207k – $230k+ equity
San Francisco$207k – $445k+ equity
OpenAI
Red Team Specialist - Cyber
San Francisco · Seattle +1$198k – $320k+ equity
US - Remote · New York City +1Remote listed$263k – $515k+ equity
San Francisco$223k – $423k+ equity
San Francisco · London, UK$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco · London, UK$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$295k – $445k+ equity
San Francisco$295k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
OpenAI
Data Scientist, Ads Demand
San Francisco$293k – $515k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$239k – $328k+ equity
San Francisco$220k – $245k+ equity
OpenAI
Research Engineer, Privacy
San Francisco$500k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k
San Francisco$380k – $500k
San Francisco$380k – $500k
San Francisco$380k – $500k
San Francisco$380k – $500k
San Francisco$380k – $500k
San Francisco$380k – $500k
OpenAI
Agent Post-Training Research
San Francisco$380k – $500k
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$266k – $445k+ equity
San Francisco$239k – $328k+ equity
OpenAI
Data Scientist, Safety
San Francisco · New York City$265k – $380k+ equity
OpenAI
Data Scientist, Preparedness
San Francisco$345k – $385k+ equity
San Francisco$239k – $328k+ equity
San Francisco$295k – $385k+ equity
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
OpenAI
Research Engineer, Codex
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
OpenAI
Researcher, Interpretability
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$295k – $445k+ equity
San Francisco$295k – $380k+ equity
OpenAI
Software Engineer, AI Safety
San Francisco$207k – $385k+ equity
San Francisco$295k – $536k+ equity
OpenAI
Researcher, Safety Oversight
San Francisco$380k – $500k+ equity
OpenAI
Researcher, Alignment
San Francisco$295k – $500k+ equity
San Francisco$295k – $536k+ equity
San Francisco · London, UK$380k – $500k+ equity
About this page
Collected once a day from OpenAI's own public career listings at their job board. Applications go directly to them; we do not sit in between. Only roles in AI evaluation, post-training, red teaming, alignment and human data appear here, so this is not their whole careers page.