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OpenAI salaries

248 posted ranges · median $356k · H-1B median $325k (140 filings)

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Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

TitlePosted
Software Engineer128 posted ranges$356k$266k to $445k
Data Scientist18 posted ranges$332k$280k to $385k
Engineering Manager14 posted ranges$423k$401k to $445k
Full Stack Engineer14 posted ranges$334k$266k to $395k
Research Engineer13 posted ranges$440k$380k to $500k
Applied AI Engineer12 posted ranges$254k$211k to $280k
Forward Deployed Engineer11 posted ranges$243k$185k to $300k
Security Engineer9 posted ranges$356k$266k to $445k
Machine Learning Engineer8 posted ranges$431k$361k to $493k
Design Engineer4 posted ranges$324k$225k to $423k
AI Engineer3 posted ranges$356k$266k to $445k
Solutions Engineer3 posted ranges$247k$234k to $260k
Product Engineer2 posted ranges$261k to $445k2 postings
Agent Engineer2 posted ranges$243k to $395k2 postings
Data Engineer2 posted ranges$264k to $355k2 postings
Research Scientist2 posted ranges$224k to $333k2 postings
MLOps Engineer1 posted range$266k to $500kone posting
Evals Engineer1 posted range$266k to $445kone posting
Analytics Engineer1 posted range$220k to $335kone posting

Posted ranges

120 postings

PostingRange
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$293kto $585k
Machine Learning Engineer, Integrity (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$287kto $555k
Software Engineer, Inference - Multi Modal (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $555k
Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization AI/ML (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$381kto $555k
Engineering Manager, MLE (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $555k
Software Engineer, Data Acquisition (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $536k
Full-Stack SWE, Data Acquisition (Foundations) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $536k
Engineering Manager, Core Experimentation (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSeattle area$510kto $536k
Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $536k
Data Engineering Manager, Growth & Revenue (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$459kto $536k
Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$441kto $515k
Data Scientist, Ads Demand (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$293kto $515k
Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$293kto $515k
Data Scientist, Cybersecurity (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedRemote (US)$263kto $515k
Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerPrincipalRemote (US)$401kto $510k
Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerPrincipalRemote (US)$401kto $510k
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $510k
Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $510k
Software Engineer, Collective Communication (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Software Engineer, Model Inference (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Machine Learning Data Scientist, Forecasting (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$340kto $500k
Research Engineer, Codex (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Software Engineer, Platform Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Machine Learning Engineer, Distributed Data Systems - Robotics (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Software Engineer, Inference - Performance Optimization (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Technology Vertical (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerPrincipalSan Francisco Bay Area$441kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGI (the posting, opens in a new tab)MLOps EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $500k
Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$210kto $490k
Software Engineer, Fleet Management (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Compute Foundations Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $490k
Full Stack Engineer, Fleet Scheduling (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$185kto $490k
Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Education & Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$185kto $490k
Software Engineer, Delivery / CD (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$210kto $490k
Software Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$185kto $490k
Software Engineer, Compute Foundations (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$255kto $490k
Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$185kto $490k
Machine Learning Engineer, Core Experimentation (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSeattle area$437kto $485k
Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design (the posting, opens in a new tab)AI EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $468k
Control Systems Software Engineer, Robotics (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $460k
Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$310kto $460k
Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $455k
Software Engineer, Foundations Search (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $455k
Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $445k
Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Research Scientist (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $445k
Software Engineer, Observability (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Financial Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Security Engineer, Application Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $445k
Software Engineer, Hardware Health (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $445k
Security Engineer, Application Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSeattle area$266kto $445k
Security Engineer, Application Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedNew York City$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSeattle area$266kto $445k
Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $445k
Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$401kto $445k
Security Engineer, Agent Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Database Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Backend Software Engineer (Evals) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Evals EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedRemote (US)$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedRemote (US)$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Monetization Delivery (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Software Engineer, Monetization Product & Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Software Engineer, Cooperative AI (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$400kto $445k
Engineering Manager, Artifacts (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$401kto $445k
Software Engineer, Localization (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$335kto $445k
Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Core Experimentation (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSeattle area$347kto $445k
Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Engineering Manager, Cooperative Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSeattle area$400kto $445k
Capacity Systems Software Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Full-Stack Software Engineer, Applied Foundations (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Systems Software Engineer, Management Plane (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, API Safety (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Forward Deployed Security Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedWashington DC area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Ad Formats (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Software Engineer, Ads Manager (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerManagerSeattle area$347kto $445k
Software Engineer, Monetization ML Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Host Systems Software Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Full Stack Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Cloud Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Software Engineer, API Multicloud (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
RTL Design Engineer - Interconnect & Network Datapath (the posting, opens in a new tab)Design EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$225kto $445k
Software Engineer, ChatGPT Shopping (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Software Engineer, Codex Cyber (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Engineering Manager, Model Flywheel (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$401kto $445k
Software Engineer, AI accelerator Runtime (the posting, opens in a new tab)AI EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, API Multimodal (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, API Enterprise Controls (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Product Engineer, Full Stack - Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)Product EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $445k
Systems Software Engineer, Silicon Bringup (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, Model Runtime (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Product Engineer, Cyber (the posting, opens in a new tab)Product EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$255kto $445k
Software Engineer, Host Assurance (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Software Engineer, HSM Infrastructure Security, Consumer Devices (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$347kto $445k
Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$401kto $445k
Engineering Manager, ChatGPT Search Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area$401kto $445k
Engineering Manager, Library (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSeattle area$401kto $445k
Full-Stack Software Engineer, Emerging Products (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $445k

The newest 120 of 248 are shown. All of them: /api/postings?company=openai

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OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models. Source

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By level

LevelPostedH-1B
Senior1 posted$293k to $325kone postingNone
Staff5 posted$356k$266k to $445k$220k11 filings
Principal3 posted$456k$401k to $510kNone
Manager21 posted$423k$400k to $445kNone
Not stated218 posted$339k$266k to $405k$325k129 filings

By city

CityPosted
San Francisco Bay Area216 posted ranges$353k$266k to $445k
Seattle area14 posted ranges$366k$347k to $445k
New York City7 posted ranges$326k$266k to $385k
Remote (US)6 posted ranges$372k$266k to $478k
Washington DC area5 posted ranges$257k$211k to $302k

H-1B median by quarter

Fiscal quarterFilingsMedian
FY2025 Q113$343k
FY2025 Q214$343k
FY2025 Q332$369k
FY2025 Q415$380k
FY2026 Q142$255k
FY2026 Q243$325k
FY2026 Q340$330k

Posted median by week

Week ofRangesMedian
Sep 21248$356k

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