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OpenAI (GPT)

Maker of the GPT models and ChatGPT. One of the two model providers New York AI companies name most in job posts.

Hiring data as of November 14, 2026, refreshed daily. All terms in the AI skills glossary

companies naming it
12 of 47companies naming it
open roles naming it
24open roles naming it
of those based in NYC
15of those based in NYC
median posted base (n=14)
$208kmedian posted base (n=14)

What OpenAI means

OpenAI develops the GPT family of models and ChatGPT, available through its own API and through Microsoft Azure. For many teams it was the first provider they built on, and its API conventions became a de facto standard that other providers and open-source servers imitate.

We count a posting that names OpenAI, a GPT model, or ChatGPT in the role’s own text. Company boilerplate is removed first — which matters here more than for any other term, because OpenAI also appears in company descriptions as an investor or customer.

OpenAI in New York job posts

12 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name OpenAI in at least one open role today, across 24 postings. 15 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.

This is engineering vocabulary: 63% of the postings that name it are Engineering roles.

How to read it

A provider name in a posting signals an existing dependency and a preference for candidates who know that model’s behavior. Many postings name OpenAI and Anthropic together, which usually means the team routes between providers and wants someone comfortable evaluating models against each other rather than loyal to one.

What these roles pay

$155k25th percentile
$208kMedian
$255k75th percentile

Midpoints of 14 distinct salary ranges posted on New York roles that name OpenAI. Base salary only; on-target earnings are excluded, and a range repeated across one company’s postings counts once. For comparison, the median across all New York engineering postings is $215k. A term’s pay reflects the roles that name it as much as the skill itself — see the role mix below before reading a premium into it. Full bands by function and seniority are in the NYC salary calculator.

Companies naming OpenAI, daily

Count of companies with at least one open role naming the term. We read between 46 and 48 companies a day over this period, so a move of one or two is noise.

012.52512Aug 17Nov 14Aug 17: 19 companiesAug 18: 19 companiesAug 19: 19 companiesAug 20: 18 companiesAug 21: 18 companiesAug 22: 18 companiesAug 23: 18 companiesAug 24: 19 companiesAug 25: 19 companiesAug 26: 19 companiesAug 27: 19 companiesAug 28: 19 companiesAug 29: 19 companiesAug 30: 19 companiesAug 31: 19 companiesSep 1: 19 companiesSep 2: 19 companiesSep 3: 18 companiesSep 4: 18 companiesSep 5: 18 companiesSep 6: 18 companiesSep 7: 18 companiesSep 8: 18 companiesSep 9: 20 companiesSep 10: 20 companiesSep 11: 20 companiesSep 12: 20 companiesSep 13: 20 companiesSep 14: 20 companiesSep 15: 20 companiesSep 16: 20 companiesSep 17: 20 companiesSep 18: 20 companiesSep 19: 21 companiesSep 20: 20 companiesSep 21: 20 companiesSep 22: 19 companiesSep 23: 19 companiesSep 24: 18 companiesSep 25: 17 companiesSep 26: 16 companiesSep 27: 16 companiesSep 28: 16 companiesSep 29: 16 companiesSep 30: 16 companiesOct 1: 17 companiesOct 2: 17 companiesOct 3: 17 companiesOct 4: 17 companiesOct 5: 17 companiesOct 6: 17 companiesOct 7: 17 companiesOct 8: 15 companiesOct 9: 14 companiesOct 10: 14 companiesOct 11: 14 companiesOct 12: 14 companiesOct 13: 13 companiesOct 14: 14 companiesOct 15: 15 companiesOct 16: 15 companiesOct 17: 15 companiesOct 18: 15 companiesOct 19: 15 companiesOct 20: 15 companiesOct 21: 15 companiesOct 22: 15 companiesOct 23: 15 companiesOct 24: 15 companiesOct 25: 15 companiesOct 26: 15 companiesOct 27: 14 companiesOct 28: 14 companiesOct 29: 13 companiesOct 30: 13 companiesOct 31: 13 companiesNov 1: 13 companiesNov 2: 14 companiesNov 3: 14 companiesNov 4: 14 companiesNov 5: 13 companiesNov 6: 13 companiesNov 7: 14 companiesNov 8: 14 companiesNov 9: 14 companiesNov 10: 14 companiesNov 11: 13 companiesNov 12: 12 companiesNov 13: 12 companiesNov 14: 12 companies
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Who names it

Open roles naming OpenAI, by company.

  • Invisible Technologies6
  • AlphaSense3
  • Ramp3
  • Grow Therapy2
  • Headway2
  • Vic.ai2
  • Comet1
  • Maven Clinic1
  • Mirage (fka Captions)1
  • Norm Ai1
  • Optimal Dynamics1
  • Preql1

Which roles

The same postings, by function and by seniority.

  • Engineering15
  • GTM5
  • Research1
  • Finance & Legal1
  • Design1
  • Other1
  • Mid8
  • Staff/Principal7
  • Senior6
  • Manager2
  • Leadership1

Named alongside OpenAI

Terms that appear in the same postings far more often than chance would put them there. The number is how many of the 12 companies pair the two.

Open roles naming OpenAI

A sample from today’s data, New York roles first and one per company before any repeats. Links go to the employer’s own posting. For the full market, see AI jobs in NYC.

How this is counted

Every day we read the open roles on the public job boards of the New York AI companies in our coverage — the NYC AI 100 and the AI in NYC Show roster. This term is matched against each role’s description after removing the text a company repeats across its postings, so an “About us” paragraph cannot tag every role the company has open. A vendor’s own postings never count toward its own name.

The figure means named in a job posting. It does not mean used in production, and a “nice to have” counts the same as a requirement. Companies are the headline number because posting counts are dominated by whichever few employers are hiring hardest this month.

Full method, including the pay rules, is on the glossary index; the underlying series is the NYC AI Hiring Index.

OpenAI: common questions

What does OpenAI mean in an AI job posting?

Maker of the GPT models and ChatGPT. One of the two model providers New York AI companies name most in job posts. A provider name in a posting signals an existing dependency and a preference for candidates who know that model’s behavior. Many postings name OpenAI and Anthropic together, which usually means the team routes between providers and wants someone comfortable evaluating models against each other rather than loyal to one.

How many New York AI companies are hiring for OpenAI?

As of November 14, 2026, 12 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name OpenAI in the description of at least one open role, across 24 postings (15 based in New York). The count refreshes daily from the companies’ own job boards.

What do roles that ask for OpenAI pay in New York?

Across 14 distinct posted salary ranges on New York roles naming OpenAI, the median midpoint is $208k base, with the middle half between $155k and $255k. The same figure for all New York engineering postings is $215k. These are employer-posted ranges required by New York’s pay transparency law, base salary only.

Which skills are asked for alongside OpenAI?

In the same postings, the terms most distinctively paired with OpenAI are Google Gemini, RAG, Anthropic, Data pipelines, Machine learning. We rank pairings by how much more often they appear together than apart, so near-universal terms such as Python do not crowd out the informative ones.

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