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OpenAI: what it hires for
Open postings on OpenAI's public job board, classified by role family, with the tools and titles they name. As of Nov 12, 2026; the industry picture is on Workforce.
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Exhibit 1 · Family mix against the industry
OpenAI over-weights sell and deploy: 52% of its analysed roles vs 45% industry
OpenAI (bold) against the industry and the 3 companies with the closest mix (Scale AI, Anthropic and LangChain). Each bar is 100% of analysed roles.
- All companies2,010 analysed45%25%16%
- OpenAI311 of 823 in its top six52%18%21%
- Scale AI43 of 169 in its top six49%21%23%
- Anthropic249 of 673 in its top six44%26%20%
- LangChain62 of 101 in its top six76%13%
Source: the public job boards of 18 AI companies (238 boards), read daily · as of Nov 12, 2026. 512 of OpenAI's 823 open postings are not analysed yet or sit outside its six largest families. Colours are the sectors of the hiring orbit.
Table · 6 rows
| Family | Open | Share of company |
|---|---|---|
| Go-to-market | 90 | 11% |
| Forward deployed | 73 | 8.9% |
| Operations | 65 | 7.9% |
| AI engineering | 29 | 3.5% |
| Infrastructure | 27 | 3.3% |
| Safety and policy | 27 | 3.3% |
Exhibit 2 · Tool stack against the industry
OpenAI: Codex 5.9× the industry share (3.5% of its analysed roles vs 0.6%)
Bar = share of OpenAI's postings in its top six families that ask for the tool; ink tick = share of all analysed postings. Its 8 most-asked tools.
Source: the public job boards of 18 AI companies (238 boards), read daily · as of Nov 12, 2026. Per-company tools are its eight most-asked; the ratio is its share over the industry's.
Table · 8 rows
| Tool | Postings | Share of its top six | Industry share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python | 18 | 5.8% | 11% |
| APIs | 13 | 4.2% | 1.6% |
| Codex | 11 | 3.5% | 0.6% |
| JavaScript | 9 | 2.9% | 1.1% |
| ChatGPT Enterprise | 7 | 2.3% | — |
| MCP | 7 | 2.3% | 1.7% |
| OpenAI API | 7 | 2.3% | — |
| LLMs | 5 | 1.6% | 0.8% |
Exhibit 3 · Most common titles
Software Engineer leads OpenAI's titles with 37 postings; its top 8 titles hold 119
Bar = open postings with that exact title, without level, team or location.
- Software Engineer37
- Applied AI Engineer23
- Account Director16
- Forward Deployed Engineer14
- Applied AI Architect10
- Technical Program Manager7
- AI Deployment Manager6
- Engineering Manager6
Source: the public job boards of 18 AI companies (238 boards), read daily · as of Nov 12, 2026.
Table · 8 rows
| Title | Postings |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 37 |
| Applied AI Engineer | 23 |
| Account Director | 16 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 14 |
| Applied AI Architect | 10 |
| Technical Program Manager | 7 |
| AI Deployment Manager | 6 |
| Engineering Manager | 6 |
How the numbers are made
- Counts come from the public job boards of AI companies (Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever), read once a day.
- A posting is open from the day we first see it until a full read of its board no longer lists it.
- Each posting is classified by a language model into a fixed set of role families, seniority levels, work modes and AI focus, and the tools and skills it asks for are listed; shares are of classified open postings.
- New means published in the last 30 days (or first seen after our first collection day when the board gives no date); everything open on our first day is the baseline, not new hiring.
- Salary bands use the midpoint of ranges the postings state themselves, only where at least 10 postings of one family state a range in one currency.
- Roles, never people: no recruiter, hiring manager or applicant is collected.