OpenAI
Job posting spike · detected 6d ago · Sep 7, 2026
OpenAI job postings up 28% in 30 days
VerifiedComputed by AgraphImportance 4/5Confidence 94%
Open roles moved from 303 to 388 over the trailing 30 days, with research engineer roles leading the increase.
The measurement behind this signal
Open job postings
388
Baseline, 30 days ago
303
Change
+28%
Why this matters
- A sustained increase at this rate usually precedes headcount growth by one to two quarters.
- Candidates with research engineer experience have unusually strong leverage here right now.
- Competitors in artificial intelligence may have to match compensation to hold the same profile.
Provenance
Confirmed by a primary source such as the company, a filing or a regulator.
- Source
- Agraph job crawler
- Extraction method
- derived
- Discovered
- Sep 8, 2026
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