Information for OpenAI

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Basic information

Item Value
Country United States
Facebook username openai.research
Twitter username openai
Website https://openai.com/
Launch date 2015-12-11
Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
Donations List Website (data still preliminary) donee
Agendas Iterated amplification, Debate

Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2014 1 Pavan Sharma
2015 11 Durk Kingma, John Schulman Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, John Schulman, Matt Krisiloff, Pamela Vagata, Pavan Sharma, Sam Altman, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba
2016 65 Alexander Skidanov, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Ian Goodfellow, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Josh Tobin, Peter Chen, Pieter Abbeel, Rafał Józefowicz, Rocky Duan, Rocky Duan, Taco Cohen, Tim Salimans, Trevor Blackwell, Wojciech Zaremba, Zain Shah Alec Radford, Alexander Ray, Catherine Olsson, Chris Clark, Craig Quiter, Dario Amodei, Desmond Henderson, Elon Musk, Eric Price, Filip Wolski, Gavan Woolery, Greg Brockman, Harri Edwards, Igor Mordatch, Jack Clark, Jeff Arnold, Jeremy Schlatter, Jie Tang, John Schulman, Jon Gauthier, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Hernandez, Jonathan Ho, Kate Miltenberger, Linxi Fan, Louise Cabansay, Ludwig Pettersson, Marcin Andrychowicz, Marie La, Marika Allely, Matt Krisiloff, Meredith Blankenship, Pamela Vagata, Paul Christiano, Pavan Sharma, Peter Chen, Prafulla Dhariwal, Rachel Fong, Sam Altman, Scott Gray, Szymon Sidor, Tambet Matiisen, Tom Brown, Tyler Neylon, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba, Yura Burda Shivon Zilis
2017 109 Aditya Grover, Andrej Karpathy, Bowen Baker, Bowen Baker, Christos Louizos, Durk Kingma, Dustin Tran, Han Zhang, Harri Edwards, Ian Goodfellow, Ilya Sutskever, Jakob Foerster, Jiaming Song, John Schulman, Jonathan Raiman, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Joshua Achiam, Karthik Narasimhan, Kevin Frans, Lerrel Pinto, Nikhil Mishra, Peter Chen, Peter Welinder, Phillip Isola, Pieter Abbeel, Rafał Józefowicz, Richard Chen, Rocky Duan, Ryan Lowe, Taco Cohen, Tim Salimans, Trapit Bansal, Trevor Blackwell, Wojciech Zaremba, Yang Liu, Yaroslav Bulatov AlShaun Baksh, Alec Radford, Aleks Kamko, Alex Nichol, Alexander Ray, Ankur Handa, Art Chaidarun, Benjamin Mann, Bob McGrew, Brooke Chan, Catherine Olsson, Catherine Olsson, Cathy Wu, Chris Clark, Christopher Berner, Danielle Buma, Dario Amodei, David Lansky, David Luan, Elon Musk, Eric Price, Erika Reinhardt, Filip Wolski, Geoffrey Irving, Greg Brockman, Harri Edwards, Igor Mordatch, Jack Clark, Jakub Pachocki, Jason Peng, Jean Harb, Jeremy Schlatter, Jie Tang, John Schulman, Jon Gauthier, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gray, Jonathan Hernandez, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ho, Kate Miltenberger, Larissa Schiavo, Linxi Fan, Ludwig Pettersson, Maciej Chociej, Marcin Andrychowicz, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Matthias Plappert, Pamela Vagata, Paul Christiano, Paul Christiano, Pavan Sharma, Peter Chen, Prafulla Dhariwal, Prafulla Dhariwal, Quirin Fischer, Rachel Fong, Rein Houthooft, Rein Houthooft, Sam Altman, Scott Gray, Shariq Hashme, Szymon Sidor, Tambet Matiisen, Tim Shi, Tom Brown, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba, Yuping Luo, Yura Burda Michael Page, Shivon Zilis
2018 147 Aleksandar Botev, Amanda Askell, Bowen Baker, Christopher Olah, Daniel Ziegler, David Farhi, Durk Kingma, Ethan Knight, Harri Edwards, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jeffrey Wu, John Schulman, Jonathan Raiman, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Kaleo Hao, Karl Cobbe, Karthik Narasimhan, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Miles Brundage, Parnian Barekatain, Peter Welinder, Phillip Isola, Rafał Józefowicz, Richard Chen, Ryan Carey, Ryan Lowe, Sadhika Malladi, Taehoon Kim, Thomas Anthony, Tim Salimans, Will Grathwohl, Wojciech Zaremba Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alec Radford, Alex Nichol, Alexander Ray, Ankur Handa, Aravind Srinivas, Arthur Petron, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Bob McGrew, Bob McGrew, Brad Lightcap, Brooke Chan, Chris Clark, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Dario Amodei, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Diane Yoon, Dolapo Martins, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elon Musk, Eric Price, Eric Sigler, Erin Grant, Filip Wolski, Geoffrey Irving, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Hanjun Dai, Hannah Davis, Holly Grimm, Ian Atha, Ifu Aniemeka, Igor Mordatch, Jack Clark, Jack Clark, Jacob Hilton, Jacob Jackson, Jakub Pachocki, Janine Korovesis, Jie Tang, Johannes Otterbach, Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, Jon Gauthier, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gray, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ho, Josh Meier, Justin Wang, Karl Cobbe, Kevin Wong, Larissa Schiavo, Larissa Schiavo, Linxi Fan, Maciej Chociej, Maddie Hall, Manuel Sherbakoff, Marcin Andrychowicz, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Michał Staniszewski, Michael Petrov, Mikhail Pavlov, Mira Murati, Munashe Shumba, Nadja Rhodes, Pamela Vagata, Paul Christiano, Paul Christiano, Pavan Sharma, Peter Chen, Peter Zhokhov, Prafulla Dhariwal, Prafulla Dhariwal, Qiming Yuan, Rein Houthooft, Rein Houthooft, Remco Zwetsloot, Rewon Child, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Sam McCandlish, Scott Gray, Sophia Arakelyan, Suchir Balaji, Susan Zhang, Szymon Sidor, Szymon Sidor, Todor Markov, Tom Brown, Will Rice, Wojciech Zaremba, Xingyou (Richard) Song, Yilun Du, Yura Burda Sue Yoon Gillian Hadfield, Julia Galef, Maran Nelson, Matt Mochary, Michael Page, Pieter Abbeel, Shivon Zilis
2019 140 Amanda Askell, Bowen Baker, Christopher Olah, Cullen O"Keefe, Daniel Ziegler, Danny Hernandez, David Farhi, Ethan Knight, Girish Sastry, Harri Edwards, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jeffrey Wu, John Schulman, Jonathan Raiman, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Kaleo Hao, Karl Cobbe, Lei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Long Ouyang, Maxim Sokolov, Miles Brundage, Peter Welinder, Stanislas Polu, Taehoon Kim, Wojciech Zaremba Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alec Radford, Alex Paino, Alexander Ray, Ankur Handa, Aris Konstantinidis, Arthur Petron, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Brad Lightcap, Brooke Chan, Chris Clark, Christina Hendrickson, Christina Hendrickson, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Dario Amodei, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Diane Yoon, Diane Yoon, Edgar Barraza, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elon Musk, Elynn Chen, Eric Price, Eric Sigler, Fatma Tarlaci, Filip Wolski, Frances Choi, Geoffrey Irving, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Helen (Mengxin) Ji, Ian Atha, Ife Riamah, Igor Mordatch, Ilge Akkaya, Jack Clark, Jacob Hilton, Jakub Pachocki, Janet Brown, Janine Korovesis, Jerry Tworek, Jie Tang, Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, Jon Gauthier, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gray, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Michaux, Justin Wang, Justin Wang, Karson Elmgren, Linxi Fan, Luke Miller, Maciej Chociej, Maddie Hall, Marcin Andrychowicz, Mario Saltarelli, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Michał Staniszewski, Michael Petrov, Mikhail Pavlov, Mira Murati, Mor Katz, Nancy Otero, Nikolas Tezak, Nikolas Tezak, Pamela Vagata, Paul Christiano, Paul Christiano, Pavan Sharma, Peter Chen, Peter Zhokhov, Prafulla Dhariwal, Prafulla Dhariwal, Qiming Yuan, Rein Houthooft, Rewon Child, Roger Xu Jiang, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Scott Gray, Susan Zhang, Szymon Sidor, Tao Xu, Todor Markov, Todor Markov, Tom Brown, Wojciech Zaremba, Yuhao Wan, Yura Burda Sue Yoon Gillian Hadfield, Julia Galef, Maran Nelson, Matt Mochary, Michael Page, Pieter Abbeel, Shivon Zilis
2020 155 Amanda Askell, Arvind Neelakantan, Bowen Baker, Christopher Olah, Cullen O"Keefe, Daniel Ziegler, Danny Hernandez, David Farhi, Ethan Knight, Girish Sastry, Harri Edwards, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jeffrey Wu, Joel Lehman, John Schulman, Jonathan Gordon, Jonathan Raiman, Jonathan Ward, Joost Huizinga, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Karl Cobbe, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Long Ouyang, Maxim Sokolov, Miles Brundage, Mira Murati, Raul Puri, Stanislas Polu, Taehoon Kim, Tyna Eloundou, Wojciech Zaremba Adam Rhodes, Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alec Radford, Alex Paino, Alexander Ray, Ankur Handa, Aris Konstantinidis, Arthur Petron, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Brad Lightcap, Bram Adams, Brooke Chan, Chris Clark, Christina Hendrickson, Christina Hendrickson, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Dario Amodei, Dave Cummings, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Denny Jin, Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elon Musk, Emy Parparita, Eric Price, Eric Sigler, Filip Wolski, Fotios Chantzis, Frances Choi, Frances Choi, Fraser Kelton, Geoffrey Irving, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Gretchen M. Krueger, Ian Atha, Ife Riamah, Igor Mordatch, Ilge Akkaya, Jack Clark, Jakub Pachocki, Janine Korovesis, Jeff Clune, Jerry Tworek, Jie Tang, Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, Jon Gauthier, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gray, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ho, Julián Santoro, Justin Wang, Karson Elmgren, Linxi Fan, Luke Miller, Luke Miller, Maddie Hall, Maddie Simens, Marcin Andrychowicz, Mario Saltarelli, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Michael Petrov, Mira Murati, Mo Bavarian, Mor Katz, Nikolas Tezak, Pamela Vagata, Paul Christiano, Paul Christiano, Pavan Sharma, Peter Chen, Peter Welinder, Peter Zhokhov, Philippe Tillet, Phuong Vu, Prafulla Dhariwal, Prafulla Dhariwal, Qiming Yuan, Rachelle F., Red A., Rein Houthooft, Rewon Child, Robert B. Brodsky, Roger Xu Jiang, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Scott Gray, Steven Adler, Suchir Balaji, Susan Zhang, Tao Xu, Theresa Lopez, Tim Yanchen Wang, Todor Markov, Todor Markov, Tom Brown, Wojciech Zaremba, Yura Burda Kelly Sims, Shivon Zilis, Sue Yoon Gillian Hadfield, Julia Galef, Maran Nelson, Matt Mochary, Michael Page, Pieter Abbeel
2021 206 Amanda Askell, Aravind Srinivas, Arvind Neelakantan, Bowen Baker, Christopher Olah, Cullen O"Keefe, Daniel Ziegler, Danny Hernandez, David Farhi, Ethan Knight, Giambattista Parascandolo, Girish Sastry, Gretchen M. Krueger, Harri Edwards, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jeffrey Wu, Joel Lehman, Johannes H., John Schulman, Jonathan Gordon, Jonathan Raiman, Jonathan Ward, Jonathan Ward, Joost Huizinga, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Karl Cobbe, Lama Ahmad, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Long Ouyang, Lukasz Kaiser, Matthew Gentzel, Maxim Sokolov, Miles Brundage, Mira Murati, Raul Puri, Richard Ngo, Sarah Shoker, Stanislas Polu, Taehoon Kim, Tyna Eloundou, Vitchyr Pong, Wojciech Zaremba Adam Goldberg, Adam Rhodes, Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alec Radford, Alex Paino, Alexander Ray, Angie Luo, Ankur Handa, Anna Makanju, Aris Konstantinidis, Arthur Petron, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Austin Wiseman, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Bob Rotsted, Brad Lightcap, Bram Adams, Brooke Chan, Carroll Wainwright, Chaitra A., Che Chang, Chris Clark, Christina Hendrickson, Christina Hendrickson, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Cullen O"Keefe, Dario Amodei, Dave Cummings, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Davit Khachatryan, Denny Jin, Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elie Georges, Elon Musk, Emanuele Marchiori, Emy Parparita, Eric Price, Eric Sigler, Filip Wolski, Fotios Chantzis, Frances Choi, Frances Choi, Fraser Kelton, Geoffrey Irving, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Gretchen M. Krueger, Gretchen M. Krueger, Gualberto Briceño, Hannah Wong, Ian Atha, Ife Riamah, Igor Mordatch, Ilge Akkaya, Isabel Alves de Lima, Ishant Singh, Jack Clark, Jakub Pachocki, Janine Korovesis, Jason Kwon, Jeff Clune, Jerry Tworek, Jesse Han, Jie Tang, Joanne Jang, Johannes H., Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, Jon Gauthier, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gray, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ward, Julián Santoro, Justin Wang, Juston Forte, Karl Whitford Pollard, Karson Elmgren, Kyle Kosic, Linxi Fan, Lucas Negritto, Luke Miller, Luke Miller, Maddie Hall, Maddie Simens, Marcin Andrychowicz, Mario Saltarelli, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Michael Petrov, Mo Bavarian, Mor Katz, Natalie Summers, Nikolas Tezak, Pamela Vagata, Paul Christiano, Paul Christiano, Pavan Sharma, Peter Chen, Peter Welinder, Peter Zhokhov, Philippe Tillet, Phuong Vu, Prafulla Dhariwal, Prafulla Dhariwal, Preston Tuggle, Qiming Yuan, Rachelle F., Radhika Mathur, Rajeev Nayak, Red A., Rein Houthooft, Rewon Child, Rob Mallery, Robert B. Brodsky, Roger Xu Jiang, Rosie Campbell, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Sarthak Agrawal, Scott Gray, Shawn Jain, Stefanie Biaggi, Steven Adler, Suchir Balaji, Susan Zhang, Tabarak Khan, Tao Xu, Theresa Lopez, Tim Yanchen Wang, Todor Markov, Tolly Powell, Tom Brown, Victor Benito Garcia Rocha, Vlad Ursu, Wojciech Zaremba, Yura Burda, Zack Kass, Zarina Stanik Lisa Dethridge Kelly Sims, Shivon Zilis, Sue Yoon Gillian Hadfield, Jade Leung, Julia Galef, Maran Nelson, Matt Mochary, Michael Page, Pieter Abbeel
2022 213 Amanda Askell, Aravind Srinivas, Arvind Neelakantan, Bowen Baker, Christopher Olah, Daniel Ziegler, Danny Hernandez, David Farhi, Ethan Knight, Giambattista Parascandolo, Girish Sastry, Harri Edwards, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jeffrey Wu, Joel Lehman, Johannes H., John Schulman, Jonathan Gordon, Jonathan Raiman, Jonathan Ward, Joost Huizinga, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Karl Cobbe, Lama Ahmad, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Long Ouyang, Lukasz Kaiser, Matthew Gentzel, Maxim Sokolov, Miles Brundage, Mira Murati, Oleg Mürk, Raul Puri, Richard Ngo, Sarah Shoker, Stanislas Polu, Sully Chen, Taehoon Kim, Tyna Eloundou, Vitchyr Pong, Wojciech Zaremba Adam Goldberg, Adam Nace, Adam Rhodes, Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alec Radford, Alex Paino, Alexander Ray, Angie Luo, Ankur Handa, Anna Makanju, Aris Konstantinidis, Arthur Petron, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Austin Wiseman, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Bob Rotsted, Brad Lightcap, Bram Adams, Brooke Chan, Carroll Wainwright, Chaitra A., Che Chang, Chester Cho, Chris Clark, Christina Hendrickson, Christina Hendrickson, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Cullen O"Keefe, Daniel Levy, Dario Amodei, Dave Cummings, Dave Willner, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Davit Khachatryan, Denny Jin, Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elie Georges, Elon Musk, Emanuele Marchiori, Emy Parparita, Eric Price, Eric Sigler, Eugene Wu, Filip Wolski, Fotios Chantzis, Frances Choi, Fraser Kelton, Geoffrey Irving, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Gretchen M. Krueger, Gualberto Briceño, Hannah Wong, Ian Atha, Ife Riamah, Igor Mordatch, Ilge Akkaya, Isabel Alves de Lima, Ishant Singh, Jack Clark, Jakub Pachocki, Janine Korovesis, Janine Korovesis, Jason Kwon, Jeff Clune, Jerry Tworek, Jesse Han, Jessica Shieh, Jie Tang, Joanne Jang, Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, Jon Gauthier, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gray, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ward, Julián Santoro, Justin Wang, Juston Forte, Karl Whitford Pollard, Karson Elmgren, Kyle Kosic, Linxi Fan, Lucas Negritto, Luke Miller, Maddie Hall, Maddie Simens, Marcin Andrychowicz, Mario Saltarelli, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Michael Petrov, Mo Bavarian, Mor Katz, Natalie Summers, Nikolas Tezak, Pamela Vagata, Paul Christiano, Paul Christiano, Pavan Sharma, Peter Chen, Peter Welinder, Peter Zhokhov, Philippe Tillet, Phuong Vu, Prafulla Dhariwal, Prafulla Dhariwal, Preston Tuggle, Qiming Yuan, Rachelle F., Radhika Mathur, Rajeev Nayak, Red A., Rein Houthooft, Rewon Child, Rob Mallery, Robert B. Brodsky, Roger Xu Jiang, Rosie Campbell, Ryan Peterson, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Sarthak Agrawal, Scott Gray, Shawn Jain, Stefanie Biaggi, Steven Adler, Steven Bills, Suchir Balaji, Susan Zhang, Tabarak Khan, Tao Xu, Tatiana Zolotova, Theresa Lopez, Tim Yanchen Wang, Todor Markov, Tolly Powell, Tom Brown, Victor Benito Garcia Rocha, Vishal Kuo, Vlad Ursu, Wojciech Zaremba, Yaniv Markovski, Yura Burda, Zack Kass, Zarina Stanik Lisa Dethridge Kelly Sims, Shivon Zilis, Sue Yoon Gillian Hadfield, Jade Leung, Julia Galef, Maran Nelson, Matt Mochary, Michael Page, Pieter Abbeel
2023 211 Amanda Askell, Aravind Srinivas, Arvind Neelakantan, Bowen Baker, Christopher Olah, Daniel Ziegler, Danny Hernandez, David Farhi, Ethan Knight, Giambattista Parascandolo, Girish Sastry, Harri Edwards, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jeffrey Wu, Joel Lehman, Johannes H., John Schulman, Jonathan Gordon, Jonathan Raiman, Joost Huizinga, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Karl Cobbe, Lama Ahmad, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Long Ouyang, Lukasz Kaiser, Matthew Gentzel, Maxim Sokolov, Miles Brundage, Mira Murati, Oleg Mürk, Raul Puri, Richard Ngo, Sarah Shoker, Stanislas Polu, Sully Chen, Taehoon Kim, Tyna Eloundou, Vitchyr Pong, Wojciech Zaremba Adam Goldberg, Adam Nace, Adam Rhodes, Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alec Radford, Alex Paino, Alexander Ray, Angie Luo, Ankur Handa, Anna Makanju, Aris Konstantinidis, Arthur Petron, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Austin Wiseman, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Bob Rotsted, Brad Lightcap, Bram Adams, Brooke Chan, Carroll Wainwright, Chaitra A., Che Chang, Chester Cho, Chris Clark, Christina Hendrickson, Christina Hendrickson, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Cullen O"Keefe, Daniel Levy, Dario Amodei, Dave Cummings, Dave Willner, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Davit Khachatryan, Denny Jin, Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elie Georges, Elon Musk, Emanuele Marchiori, Emy Parparita, Eric Price, Eric Sigler, Eugene Wu, Filip Wolski, Fotios Chantzis, Frances Choi, Fraser Kelton, Geoffrey Irving, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Gretchen M. Krueger, Gualberto Briceño, Hannah Wong, Ian Atha, Ife Riamah, Igor Mordatch, Ilge Akkaya, Isabel Alves de Lima, Ishant Singh, Jack Clark, Jakub Pachocki, Janine Korovesis, Jason Kwon, Jeff Clune, Jerry Tworek, Jesse Han, Jessica Shieh, Jie Tang, Joanne Jang, Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, Jon Gauthier, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gray, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ho, Jonathan Ward, Julián Santoro, Justin Wang, Juston Forte, Karl Whitford Pollard, Karson Elmgren, Kyle Kosic, Linxi Fan, Lucas Negritto, Luke Miller, Maddie Hall, Maddie Simens, Marcin Andrychowicz, Mario Saltarelli, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Michael Petrov, Mo Bavarian, Mor Katz, Natalie Summers, Nikolas Tezak, Pamela Vagata, Paul Christiano, Paul Christiano, Pavan Sharma, Peter Chen, Peter Welinder, Peter Zhokhov, Philippe Tillet, Phuong Vu, Prafulla Dhariwal, Prafulla Dhariwal, Preston Tuggle, Qiming Yuan, Rachelle F., Radhika Mathur, Rajeev Nayak, Red A., Rein Houthooft, Rewon Child, Rob Mallery, Robert B. Brodsky, Roger Xu Jiang, Rosie Campbell, Ryan Peterson, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Sarthak Agrawal, Scott Gray, Shawn Jain, Stefanie Biaggi, Steven Adler, Steven Bills, Suchir Balaji, Susan Zhang, Tabarak Khan, Tao Xu, Tatiana Zolotova, Theresa Lopez, Tim Yanchen Wang, Todor Markov, Tolly Powell, Tom Brown, Victor Benito Garcia Rocha, Vishal Kuo, Vlad Ursu, Wojciech Zaremba, Yaniv Markovski, Yura Burda, Zack Kass, Zarina Stanik Lisa Dethridge Kelly Sims, Shivon Zilis, Sue Yoon Gillian Hadfield, Jade Leung, Julia Galef, Maran Nelson, Matt Mochary, Michael Page, Pieter Abbeel

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2015-01-01 1 Pavan Sharma
2016-01-01 16 Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, John Schulman, Matt Krisiloff, Pavan Sharma, Pieter Abbeel, Sam Altman, Tom Brown, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba, Wojciech Zaremba
2017-01-01 40 Alexander Ray, Andrej Karpathy, Bob McGrew, Chris Clark, Danielle Buma, Dario Amodei, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Erika Reinhardt, Greg Brockman, Ian Goodfellow, Ilya Sutskever, Jack Clark, Jeremy Schlatter, John Schulman, John Schulman, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Hernandez, Josh Tobin, Kate Miltenberger, Ludwig Pettersson, Pavan Sharma, Peter Chen, Peter Welinder, Pieter Abbeel, Rachel Fong, Rafał Józefowicz, Richard Chen, Rocky Duan, Sam Altman, Scott Gray, Shariq Hashme, Szymon Sidor, Tim Salimans, Tim Shi, Tom Brown, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba, Wojciech Zaremba
2018-01-01 46 Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alex Nichol, Alexander Ray, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Bob McGrew, Bowen Baker, Brooke Chan, Chris Clark, Christopher Berner, Christy Dennison, Dario Amodei, David Farhi, David Lansky, David Luan, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Irving, Greg Brockman, Harri Edwards, Ilya Sutskever, Jack Clark, John Schulman, John Schulman, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Raiman, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Karthik Narasimhan, Larissa Schiavo, Maciej Chociej, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Pavan Sharma, Peter Welinder, Phillip Isola, Rafał Józefowicz, Remco Zwetsloot, Richard Chen, Sam Altman, Scott Gray, Szymon Sidor, Tim Salimans, Tom Brown, Wojciech Zaremba, Wojciech Zaremba
2019-01-01 76 Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alexander Ray, Amanda Askell, Arthur Petron, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Bowen Baker, Brad Lightcap, Brooke Chan, Chris Clark, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christopher Olah, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Daniel Ziegler, Dario Amodei, David Farhi, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elon Musk, Eric Sigler, Geoffrey Irving, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Harri Edwards, Ian Atha, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jack Clark, Jacob Hilton, Janine Korovesis, Jeffrey Wu, Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, John Schulman, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Raiman, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Justin Wang, Kaleo Hao, Karl Cobbe, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Maciej Chociej, Maddie Hall, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Michał Staniszewski, Michael Petrov, Mikhail Pavlov, Miles Brundage, Mira Murati, Pavan Sharma, Peter Welinder, Peter Zhokhov, Qiming Yuan, Rewon Child, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Scott Gray, Susan Zhang, Szymon Sidor, Taehoon Kim, Todor Markov, Tom Brown, Wojciech Zaremba, Wojciech Zaremba
2020-01-01 92 Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alex Paino, Alexander Ray, Amanda Askell, Aris Konstantinidis, Arthur Petron, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Bowen Baker, Brad Lightcap, Brooke Chan, Chris Clark, Christina Hendrickson, Christina Hendrickson, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christopher Olah, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Cullen O"Keefe, Daniel Ziegler, Danny Hernandez, Dario Amodei, David Farhi, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elon Musk, Eric Sigler, Frances Choi, Geoffrey Irving, Girish Sastry, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Harri Edwards, Ian Atha, Ife Riamah, Ilge Akkaya, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jack Clark, Janine Korovesis, Jeff Clune, Jeffrey Wu, Jerry Tworek, Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, John Schulman, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Raiman, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Justin Wang, Karl Cobbe, Karson Elmgren, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Long Ouyang, Luke Miller, Maddie Hall, Mario Saltarelli, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Maxim Sokolov, Michael Petrov, Miles Brundage, Mira Murati, Mor Katz, Nikolas Tezak, Pavan Sharma, Peter Welinder, Peter Zhokhov, Qiming Yuan, Rewon Child, Roger Xu Jiang, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Scott Gray, Stanislas Polu, Susan Zhang, Taehoon Kim, Tao Xu, Todor Markov, Tom Brown, Wojciech Zaremba, Wojciech Zaremba
2021-01-01 122 Adam Rhodes, Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alex Paino, Alexander Ray, Amanda Askell, Aris Konstantinidis, Arthur Petron, Arvind Neelakantan, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Bowen Baker, Brad Lightcap, Bram Adams, Brooke Chan, Che Chang, Chris Clark, Christina Hendrickson, Christina Hendrickson, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christopher Olah, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Cullen O"Keefe, Daniel Ziegler, Danny Hernandez, Dario Amodei, Dave Cummings, David Farhi, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Denny Jin, Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elon Musk, Emy Parparita, Eric Sigler, Fotios Chantzis, Frances Choi, Fraser Kelton, Geoffrey Irving, Girish Sastry, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Gretchen M. Krueger, Harri Edwards, Ian Atha, Ife Riamah, Ilge Akkaya, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jack Clark, Janine Korovesis, Jeff Clune, Jeffrey Wu, Jerry Tworek, Joel Lehman, Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, John Schulman, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gordon, Jonathan Raiman, Jonathan Ward, Joost Huizinga, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Julián Santoro, Justin Wang, Karl Cobbe, Karson Elmgren, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Long Ouyang, Luke Miller, Maddie Hall, Maddie Simens, Mario Saltarelli, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Maxim Sokolov, Michael Petrov, Miles Brundage, Mira Murati, Mo Bavarian, Mor Katz, Nikolas Tezak, Pavan Sharma, Peter Welinder, Peter Zhokhov, Philippe Tillet, Phuong Vu, Qiming Yuan, Rachelle F., Raul Puri, Red A., Rewon Child, Robert B. Brodsky, Roger Xu Jiang, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Scott Gray, Shawn Jain, Stanislas Polu, Steven Adler, Suchir Balaji, Susan Zhang, Taehoon Kim, Tao Xu, Theresa Lopez, Tim Yanchen Wang, Todor Markov, Tom Brown, Tyna Eloundou, Wojciech Zaremba, Wojciech Zaremba, Zack Kass
2022-01-01 170 Adam Goldberg, Adam Rhodes, Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alex Paino, Alexander Ray, Amanda Askell, Angie Luo, Anna Makanju, Aravind Srinivas, Aris Konstantinidis, Arthur Petron, Arvind Neelakantan, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Austin Wiseman, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Bob Rotsted, Bowen Baker, Brad Lightcap, Bram Adams, Brooke Chan, Carroll Wainwright, Chaitra A., Che Chang, Chris Clark, Christina Hendrickson, Christina Hendrickson, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christopher Olah, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Cullen O"Keefe, Daniel Ziegler, Danny Hernandez, Dario Amodei, Dave Cummings, David Farhi, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Davit Khachatryan, Denny Jin, Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elie Georges, Elon Musk, Emanuele Marchiori, Emy Parparita, Eric Sigler, Fotios Chantzis, Frances Choi, Fraser Kelton, Geoffrey Irving, Giambattista Parascandolo, Girish Sastry, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Gretchen M. Krueger, Gualberto Briceño, Hannah Wong, Harri Edwards, Ian Atha, Ife Riamah, Ilge Akkaya, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Isabel Alves de Lima, Ishant Singh, Jack Clark, Janine Korovesis, Jason Kwon, Jeff Clune, Jeffrey Wu, Jerry Tworek, Jesse Han, Joanne Jang, Joel Lehman, Johannes H., Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, John Schulman, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gordon, Jonathan Raiman, Jonathan Ward, Jonathan Ward, Joost Huizinga, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Julián Santoro, Justin Wang, Juston Forte, Karl Cobbe, Karl Whitford Pollard, Karson Elmgren, Kyle Kosic, Lama Ahmad, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Long Ouyang, Lucas Negritto, Lukasz Kaiser, Luke Miller, Maddie Hall, Maddie Simens, Mario Saltarelli, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthew Gentzel, Matthias Plappert, Maxim Sokolov, Michael Petrov, Miles Brundage, Mira Murati, Mo Bavarian, Mor Katz, Natalie Summers, Nikolas Tezak, Oleg Mürk, Pavan Sharma, Peter Welinder, Peter Zhokhov, Philippe Tillet, Phuong Vu, Preston Tuggle, Qiming Yuan, Rachelle F., Radhika Mathur, Rajeev Nayak, Raul Puri, Red A., Rewon Child, Richard Ngo, Rob Mallery, Robert B. Brodsky, Roger Xu Jiang, Rosie Campbell, Ryan Peterson, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Sarah Shoker, Sarthak Agrawal, Scott Gray, Shawn Jain, Stanislas Polu, Stefanie Biaggi, Steven Adler, Suchir Balaji, Sully Chen, Susan Zhang, Tabarak Khan, Taehoon Kim, Tao Xu, Tatiana Zolotova, Theresa Lopez, Tim Yanchen Wang, Todor Markov, Tolly Powell, Tom Brown, Tyna Eloundou, Victor Benito Garcia Rocha, Vitchyr Pong, Vlad Ursu, Wojciech Zaremba, Wojciech Zaremba, Zack Kass, Zarina Stanik
2023-01-01 178 Adam Goldberg, Adam Nace, Adam Rhodes, Adam Smets, AlShaun Baksh, Alex Paino, Alexander Ray, Amanda Askell, Angie Luo, Anna Makanju, Aravind Srinivas, Aris Konstantinidis, Arthur Petron, Arvind Neelakantan, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Austin Wiseman, Ben Chess, Bianca Martin, Bob McGrew, Bob Rotsted, Bowen Baker, Brad Lightcap, Bram Adams, Brooke Chan, Carroll Wainwright, Chaitra A., Che Chang, Chester Cho, Chris Clark, Christina Hendrickson, Christina Hendrickson, Christine McLeavey Payne, Christopher Berner, Christopher Olah, Christy Dennison, Clemens Winter, Cullen O"Keefe, Daniel Levy, Daniel Ziegler, Danny Hernandez, Dario Amodei, Dave Cummings, Dave Willner, David Farhi, David Lansky, David Luan, David Luan, Davit Khachatryan, Denny Jin, Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Elie Georges, Elon Musk, Emanuele Marchiori, Emy Parparita, Eric Sigler, Eugene Wu, Fotios Chantzis, Frances Choi, Fraser Kelton, Geoffrey Irving, Giambattista Parascandolo, Girish Sastry, Glenn Powell, Greg Brockman, Gretchen M. Krueger, Gualberto Briceño, Hannah Wong, Harri Edwards, Ian Atha, Ife Riamah, Ilge Akkaya, Ilya Sutskever, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Isabel Alves de Lima, Ishant Singh, Jack Clark, Janine Korovesis, Jason Kwon, Jeff Clune, Jeffrey Wu, Jerry Tworek, Jesse Han, Jessica Shieh, Joanne Jang, Joel Lehman, Johannes H., Johannes Otterbach, John Schulman, John Schulman, Jonas Schneider, Jonathan Gordon, Jonathan Raiman, Jonathan Ward, Joost Huizinga, Josh Tobin, Joshua Achiam, Julián Santoro, Justin Wang, Juston Forte, Karl Cobbe, Karl Whitford Pollard, Karson Elmgren, Kyle Kosic, Lama Ahmad, Lei Zhang, Lilian Weng, Long Ouyang, Lucas Negritto, Lukasz Kaiser, Luke Miller, Maddie Hall, Maddie Simens, Mario Saltarelli, Mateusz Litwin, Mathew Shrwed, Matthew Gentzel, Matthias Plappert, Maxim Sokolov, Michael Petrov, Miles Brundage, Mira Murati, Mo Bavarian, Mor Katz, Natalie Summers, Nikolas Tezak, Oleg Mürk, Pavan Sharma, Peter Welinder, Peter Zhokhov, Philippe Tillet, Phuong Vu, Preston Tuggle, Qiming Yuan, Rachelle F., Radhika Mathur, Rajeev Nayak, Raul Puri, Red A., Rewon Child, Richard Ngo, Rob Mallery, Robert B. Brodsky, Roger Xu Jiang, Rosie Campbell, Ryan Peterson, Sam Altman, Sam McCandlish, Sarah Shoker, Sarthak Agrawal, Scott Gray, Shawn Jain, Stanislas Polu, Stefanie Biaggi, Steven Adler, Steven Bills, Suchir Balaji, Sully Chen, Susan Zhang, Tabarak Khan, Taehoon Kim, Tao Xu, Tatiana Zolotova, Theresa Lopez, Tim Yanchen Wang, Todor Markov, Tolly Powell, Tom Brown, Tyna Eloundou, Victor Benito Garcia Rocha, Vishal Kuo, Vitchyr Pong, Vlad Ursu, Wojciech Zaremba, Wojciech Zaremba, Yaniv Markovski, Zack Kass, Zarina Stanik

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
29 29 0 Adam D’Angelo, Anish Athalye, Aviv Tamar, Bradly Stadie, Christopher Hesse, Daniela Amodei, Elman Mansimov, Greg Brockman, Helen Toner, Henrique Pondé, Holden Karnofsky, Ilya Sutskever, Nicolas Papernot, Oleg Klimov, Przemysław Dębiak, Reid Hoffman, Sam Altman, Sandy Huang, Shimon Whiteson, Shun Liao, Smitha Milli, Tamim Asfour, Tasha McCauley, Vikash Kumar, Xi Chen, Xue Bin Peng, Yan Duan, Yi Wu, Yuhuai Wu
2014-03-01 30 1 0 Pavan Sharma
2015-12-01 36 6 0 Durk Kingma, Greg Brockman, John Schulman, Matt Krisiloff, Pamela Vagata, Vicki Cheung
2015-12-11 40 4 0 Elon Musk, John Schulman, Sam Altman, Wojciech Zaremba
2016-01-01 46 6 0 Andrej Karpathy, Ilya Sutskever, Pieter Abbeel, Tom Brown, Trevor Blackwell, Wojciech Zaremba
2016-02-01 47 1 0 Rocky Duan
2016-03-01 49 2 0 Chris Clark, Ian Goodfellow
2016-03-31 55 6 0 Alec Radford, Eric Price, Jonathan Ho, Linxi Fan, Peter Chen, Yura Burda
2016-04-01 56 2 -1 Jeff Arnold, Jonas Schneider Matt Krisiloff
2016-04-26 57 1 0 Shivon Zilis
2016-05-01 59 2 0 Peter Chen, Tim Salimans
2016-05-25 63 4 0 Jie Tang, Marcin Andrychowicz, Paul Christiano, Prafulla Dhariwal
2016-06-01 67 4 0 Jon Gauthier, Kate Miltenberger, Rafał Józefowicz, Tyler Neylon
2016-07-01 70 4 -1 Dario Amodei, Gavan Woolery, Scott Gray, Zain Shah Tyler Neylon
2016-08-01 70 2 -2 Catherine Olsson, Rocky Duan Gavan Woolery, Rocky Duan
2016-08-16 72 2 0 Filip Wolski, Igor Mordatch
2016-09-01 78 6 0 Alexander Ray, Alexander Skidanov, Craig Quiter, Ludwig Pettersson, Marika Allely, Tambet Matiisen
2016-10-01 85 9 -2 Desmond Henderson, Harri Edwards, Jack Clark, Jonathan Hernandez, Josh Tobin, Louise Cabansay, Marie La, Meredith Blankenship, Rachel Fong Craig Quiter, Jeff Arnold
2016-11-01 85 2 -2 Szymon Sidor, Taco Cohen Alexander Skidanov, Zain Shah
2016-11-30 86 1 0 Jeremy Schlatter
2016-12-01 83 0 -3 Desmond Henderson, Marika Allely, Meredith Blankenship
2017-01-01 90 9 -2 Bob McGrew, Danielle Buma, Erika Reinhardt, Michael Page, Paul Christiano, Peter Welinder, Richard Chen, Shariq Hashme, Tim Shi Louise Cabansay, Marie La
2017-01-30 97 8 -1 Ankur Handa, Catherine Olsson, Jakub Pachocki, Jonathan Gray, Jonathan Ho, Prafulla Dhariwal, Rein Houthooft, Yaroslav Bulatov Catherine Olsson
2017-02-01 97 2 -2 Aleks Kamko, Ryan Lowe Harri Edwards, Taco Cohen
2017-02-20 96 0 -1 Pieter Abbeel
2017-03-01 96 4 -4 Benjamin Mann, Christopher Berner, Jean Harb, Rein Houthooft Aleks Kamko, Ian Goodfellow, Jonathan Hernandez, Tambet Matiisen
2017-04-01 99 4 -1 Art Chaidarun, David Lansky, Matthias Plappert, Quirin Fischer Danielle Buma
2017-05-01 102 8 -5 Dustin Tran, Han Zhang, Jason Peng, Kevin Frans, Lerrel Pinto, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Trapit Bansal, Yang Liu Benjamin Mann, Catherine Olsson, Jeremy Schlatter, Rachel Fong, Trevor Blackwell
2017-06-01 105 7 -4 Aditya Grover, AlShaun Baksh, Brooke Chan, Cathy Wu, Christos Louizos, Jakob Foerster, Jiaming Song Andrej Karpathy, Art Chaidarun, Jean Harb, Tim Shi
2017-07-01 108 4 -1 Geoffrey Irving, Harri Edwards, Joshua Achiam, Yuping Luo Kevin Frans
2017-08-01 95 0 -13 Christos Louizos, Erika Reinhardt, Han Zhang, Jakob Foerster, Jason Peng, Lerrel Pinto, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Peter Chen, Quirin Fischer, Rocky Duan, Trapit Bansal, Yang Liu, Yuping Luo
2017-09-01 95 6 -6 Alex Nichol, Bowen Baker, Karthik Narasimhan, Larissa Schiavo, Nikhil Mishra, Phillip Isola Aditya Grover, Jiaming Song, Kate Miltenberger, Ludwig Pettersson, Matthias Plappert, Shariq Hashme
2017-10-01 94 1 -2 Jonathan Raiman Cathy Wu, Dustin Tran
2017-11-01 94 1 -1 Maciej Chociej Joshua Achiam
2017-12-01 94 3 -3 Bowen Baker, David Luan, Joshua Achiam Bowen Baker, Nikhil Mishra, Vicki Cheung
2017-12-31 93 0 -1 Yaroslav Bulatov
2018-01-01 100 7 0 Adam Smets, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Christy Dennison, David Farhi, Mathew Shrwed, Matthias Plappert, Remco Zwetsloot
2018-02-01 106 7 -1 Glenn Powell, Kaleo Hao, Kevin Wong, Larissa Schiavo, Lilian Weng, Parnian Barekatain, Ryan Carey Larissa Schiavo
2018-02-20 109 3 0 Julia Galef, Maran Nelson, Pieter Abbeel
2018-03-01 112 5 -2 Diane Yoon, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Eric Sigler, Manuel Sherbakoff, Rewon Child Parnian Barekatain, Ryan Carey
2018-04-01 113 4 -3 Aleksandar Botev, Peter Zhokhov, Szymon Sidor, Thomas Anthony Rein Houthooft, Richard Chen, Szymon Sidor
2018-05-01 122 10 -1 Aravind Srinivas, Daniel Ziegler, Erin Grant, Hanjun Dai, Michael Petrov, Sadhika Malladi, Sam McCandlish, Suchir Balaji, Susan Zhang, Will Grathwohl Kevin Wong
2018-06-01 136 16 -2 Christine McLeavey Payne, Dolapo Martins, Ethan Knight, Hannah Davis, Holly Grimm, Ifu Aniemeka, Johannes Otterbach, Josh Meier, Karl Cobbe, Mira Murati, Munashe Shumba, Nadja Rhodes, Sophia Arakelyan, Will Rice, Xingyou (Richard) Song, Yilun Du Durk Kingma, Rafał Józefowicz
2018-07-01 133 1 -4 David Luan Manuel Sherbakoff, Phillip Isola, Tim Salimans, Will Rice
2018-08-01 135 10 -8 Arthur Petron, Bob McGrew, Brad Lightcap, Christine McLeavey Payne, Gillian Hadfield, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Jeffrey Wu, Matt Mochary, Michał Staniszewski, Miles Brundage Aleksandar Botev, Aravind Srinivas, Bob McGrew, Erin Grant, Hanjun Dai, Karthik Narasimhan, Ryan Lowe, Suchir Balaji
2018-09-01 136 4 -3 Jacob Jackson, Maddie Hall, Sue Yoon, Taehoon Kim Nadja Rhodes, Thomas Anthony, Will Grathwohl
2018-10-01 133 8 -11 Christopher Olah, Ian Atha, Jack Clark, Jacob Hilton, Justin Wang, Lei Zhang, Mikhail Pavlov, Todor Markov Christine McLeavey Payne, Dolapo Martins, Hannah Davis, Holly Grimm, Ifu Aniemeka, Jack Clark, Josh Meier, Munashe Shumba, Sadhika Malladi, Xingyou (Richard) Song, Yilun Du
2018-11-01 133 3 -3 Amanda Askell, Clemens Winter, Janine Korovesis Johannes Otterbach, Larissa Schiavo, Sam McCandlish
2018-12-01 135 5 -3 Johannes Otterbach, Karl Cobbe, Mateusz Litwin, Qiming Yuan, Sam McCandlish Jacob Jackson, Karl Cobbe, Sophia Arakelyan
2018-12-31 134 0 -1 Remco Zwetsloot
2019-01-01 135 2 -1 Ben Chess, Bianca Martin Alex Nichol
2019-02-01 145 11 -1 Christina Hendrickson, Danny Hernandez, Edgar Barraza, Elynn Chen, Fatma Tarlaci, Helen (Mengxin) Ji, Janet Brown, Jonathan Michaux, Maxim Sokolov, Nancy Otero, Yuhao Wan Szymon Sidor
2019-03-01 149 6 -2 Alex Paino, Ilge Akkaya, Jerry Tworek, Karson Elmgren, Mor Katz, Nikolas Tezak Diane Yoon, Justin Wang
2019-04-01 148 4 -5 Diane Yoon, Justin Wang, Lei Zhang, Todor Markov Jacob Hilton, Lei Zhang, Michał Staniszewski, Mikhail Pavlov, Todor Markov
2019-05-01 139 0 -9 Edgar Barraza, Elynn Chen, Fatma Tarlaci, Helen (Mengxin) Ji, Janet Brown, Jonathan Michaux, Kaleo Hao, Nancy Otero, Yuhao Wan
2019-06-01 141 3 -1 Frances Choi, Ife Riamah, Long Ouyang Maciej Chociej
2019-07-01 142 1 0 Luke Miller
2019-08-01 144 2 0 Cullen O"Keefe, Mario Saltarelli
2019-09-01 147 4 -1 Girish Sastry, Nikolas Tezak, Stanislas Polu, Tao Xu Nikolas Tezak
2019-10-01 150 3 0 Aris Konstantinidis, Christina Hendrickson, Roger Xu Jiang
2019-12-01 149 0 -1 Shivon Zilis
2020-01-01 151 4 -2 Jeff Clune, Peter Welinder, Peter Welinder, Shivon Zilis Peter Welinder, Peter Welinder
2020-02-01 154 3 0 Arvind Neelakantan, Rachelle F., Tim Yanchen Wang
2020-04-01 155 3 -2 Christine McLeavey Payne, Kelly Sims, Todor Markov Christine McLeavey Payne, Todor Markov
2020-05-01 156 1 0 Emy Parparita
2020-06-01 158 2 0 Red A., Robert B. Brodsky
2020-07-01 162 5 -1 Frances Choi, Fraser Kelton, Gretchen M. Krueger, Joost Huizinga, Raul Puri Frances Choi
2020-08-01 164 3 -1 Denny Jin, Joel Lehman, Luke Miller Luke Miller
2020-09-01 168 4 0 Dave Cummings, Fotios Chantzis, Mo Bavarian, Theresa Lopez
2020-10-01 175 7 0 Adam Rhodes, Bram Adams, Jonathan Ward, Julián Santoro, Philippe Tillet, Phuong Vu, Tyna Eloundou
2020-11-01 177 2 0 Maddie Simens, Suchir Balaji
2020-12-01 179 3 -1 Jonathan Gordon, Mira Murati, Steven Adler Mira Murati
2021-01-01 182 7 -4 Che Chang, Lilian Weng, Miles Brundage, Shawn Jain, Steven Adler, Tyna Eloundou, Zack Kass Lilian Weng, Miles Brundage, Steven Adler, Tyna Eloundou
2021-02-01 188 7 -1 Bob Rotsted, Cullen O"Keefe, Hannah Wong, Ishant Singh, Jade Leung, Jesse Han, Jonathan Ward Cullen O"Keefe
2021-03-01 190 4 -2 Frances Choi, Gretchen M. Krueger, Natalie Summers, Tabarak Khan Frances Choi, Gretchen M. Krueger
2021-04-01 195 6 -1 Emanuele Marchiori, Gualberto Briceño, Jason Kwon, Karl Whitford Pollard, Kyle Kosic, Radhika Mathur Jonathan Ward
2021-05-01 199 4 0 Johannes H., Jonathan Ward, Lucas Negritto, Sarthak Agrawal
2021-06-01 205 6 0 Isabel Alves de Lima, Lisa Dethridge, Lukasz Kaiser, Rosie Campbell, Stefanie Biaggi, Vlad Ursu
2021-08-01 209 4 0 Angie Luo, Elie Georges, Victor Benito Garcia Rocha, Vitchyr Pong
2021-09-01 213 5 -1 Anna Makanju, Aravind Srinivas, Carroll Wainwright, Richard Ngo, Sarah Shoker Luke Miller
2021-10-01 219 7 -1 Davit Khachatryan, Giambattista Parascandolo, Gretchen M. Krueger, Lama Ahmad, Luke Miller, Matthew Gentzel, Rajeev Nayak Gretchen M. Krueger
2021-11-01 223 5 -1 Adam Goldberg, Austin Wiseman, Johannes H., Preston Tuggle, Rob Mallery Johannes H.
2021-12-01 227 5 -1 Chaitra A., Joanne Jang, Juston Forte, Tolly Powell, Zarina Stanik Adam Rhodes
2022-01-01 232 5 0 Adam Rhodes, Oleg Mürk, Ryan Peterson, Sully Chen, Tatiana Zolotova
2022-02-01 236 6 -2 Adam Nace, Chester Cho, Dave Willner, Eugene Wu, Janine Korovesis, Jessica Shieh Janine Korovesis, Jonathan Ward
2022-03-01 240 4 0 Daniel Levy, Steven Bills, Vishal Kuo, Yaniv Markovski

List of people (382 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Adam D’Angelo Board board member [1]
Adam Goldberg Account Director, Go-To-Market Team 2021-11-01 [2]
Adam Nace Head of Legal Operations 2022-02-01 full-time [3]
Adam Rhodes AI Specialist 2022-01-01 full-time [4]
Adam Rhodes Technical Support and Operations Consulting 2020-10-01 2021-12-01 contractor [4]
Adam Smets Neuropsychologist 2018-01-01 [5]
Aditya Grover Research Intern 2017-06-01 2017-09-01 intern [6]
Alec Radford 2016-03-31 full-time [7], [8]
Aleks Kamko Software Engineer 2017-02-01 2017-03-01 part-time [9], [10]
Aleksandar Botev Research Intern 2018-04-01 2018-08-01 intern [11]
Alex Nichol Member of Technical Staff 2017-09-01 2019-01-01 [12]
Alex Paino Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Team 2019-03-01 full-time [13]
Alexander Ray Member of Technical Staff 2016-09-01 [14]
Alexander Skidanov Research Engineer, Consultant 2016-09-01 2016-11-01 [15]
AlShaun Baksh System Architect 2017-06-01 [16]
Amanda Askell Research Scientist, AI policy 2018-11-01 [17], [18]
Andrej Karpathy Research Scientist 2016-01-01 2017-06-01 [19], [20] The given description is "Deep Learning, Generative Models, Reinforcement Learning"
Angie Luo Recruiter 2021-08-01 [21]
Anish Athalye [22]
Ankur Handa 2017-01-30 [9]
Anna Makanju Head of Public Policy 2021-09-01 [23]
Aravind Srinivas Member of Technical Staff 2018-05-01 2018-08-01 [24]
Aravind Srinivas Research Scientist 2021-09-01 [24]
Aris Konstantinidis Business Operations Lead 2019-10-01 full-time [25]
Art Chaidarun Member of Technical Staff 2017-04-01 2017-06-01 [26]
Arthur Petron Member of the Technical Staff 2018-08-01 [27]
Arvind Neelakantan Research Lead 2020-02-01 [28]
Ashley C. Pilipiszyn Science Communicator 2018-01-01 full-time [29]
Austin Wiseman Finance & Accounting 2021-11-01 [30]
Aviv Tamar [31]
Ben Chess Infrastructure 2019-01-01 [32]
Benjamin Mann Software Engineer 2017-03-01 2017-05-01 [33]
Bianca Martin Project and Executive Support 2019-01-01 [34]
Bob McGrew Member of Technical Staff 2017-01-01 2018-08-01 [9], [35]
Bob McGrew Vice President of Engineering 2018-08-01 [35]
Bob Rotsted Member Of Technical Staff, Security 2021-02-01 [36]
Bowen Baker Research Scientist Intern 2017-09-01 2017-12-01 intern [37], [38]
Bowen Baker Research Scientist on Robotics Team 2017-12-01 [37], [38]
Brad Lightcap Chief financial officer 2018-08-01 [39]
Bradly Stadie [40]
Bram Adams Developer Ambassador 2020-10-01 [41]
Brooke Chan Member of Technical Staff 2017-06-01 [42], [43]
Carroll Wainwright Member Of Technical Staff 2021-09-01 full-time [44]
Catherine Olsson Intern or visitor 2016-08-01 2017-01-30 [45], [46], [47]
Catherine Olsson Software Engineer 2017-01-30 2017-05-01 [9], [47]
Cathy Wu Member of Technical Staff, Intern 2017-06-01 2017-10-01 intern [48]
Chaitra A. Member of IT Staff 2021-12-01 full-time [49]
Che Chang Deputy General Counsel 2021-01-01 [50]
Chester Cho Senior Product Designer 2022-02-01 full-time [51]
Chris Clark Chief Operating Officer 2016-03-01 [52]
Christina Hendrickson Head of Recruiting 2019-10-01 [53]
Christina Hendrickson Recruiting and Programs 2019-02-01 [53]
Christine McLeavey Payne Member of Technical Staff 2018-08-01 2020-04-01 [54]
Christine McLeavey Payne Multimodal Team Manager & Member Of Technical Staff 2020-04-01 full-time [54]
Christine McLeavey Payne OpenAI Scholar 2018-06-01 2018-10-01 [55], [56]
Christopher Berner Head of Infrastructure 2017-03-01 [9], [57]
Christopher Hesse [58]
Christopher Olah Researcher working on human understanding of ML 2018-10-01 full-time [59], [60]
Christos Louizos Research Intern 2017-06-01 2017-08-01 intern [61]
Christy Dennison Machine Learning Engineer 2018-01-01 [42], [62]
Clemens Winter Member of Technical Staff 2018-11-01 full-time [63], [64]
Craig Quiter Technical Staff Contractor 2016-09-01 2016-10-01 contractor [65]
Cullen O"Keefe Counsel, Policy & Governance 2021-02-01 full-time [66]
Cullen O"Keefe Research Scientist (Policy) 2019-08-01 2021-02-01 [66]
Daniel Levy Member Of Technical Staff 2022-03-01 full-time [67]
Daniel Ziegler Research engineer on the Safety Team 2018-05-01 [17], [68], [69]
Daniela Amodei Natural language processing team manager and head of people operations [17]
Danielle Buma Assistant Office Manager 2017-01-01 2017-04-01 [70]
Danny Hernandez Research Scientist 2019-02-01 [17], [71] measures and forecasts AI progress
Dario Amodei Team Lead for AI Safety 2016-07-01 full-time [72], [73], [45], [74], [75] Description says "working on a combination of reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and AI safety".
Dave Cummings Member of Technical Staff 2020-09-01 [76]
Dave Willner Head of Product Policy 2022-02-01 full-time [77]
David Farhi Researcher 2018-01-01 [42], [78]
David Lansky General Counsel 2017-04-01 full-time [79]
David Luan Director of Engineering 2017-12-01 [42], [80]
David Luan Vice President of Engineering 2018-07-01 [80]
Davit Khachatryan User interaction design 2021-10-01 part-time [81]
Denny Jin Strategic Finance Lead 2020-08-01 [82]
Desmond Henderson Gameplay Data Provider 2016-10-01 2016-12-01 [83]
Diane Yoon Human resources director 2019-04-01 [84]
Diane Yoon Operations Manager 2018-03-01 2019-03-01 [42], [84]
Dolapo Martins OpenAI Scholar 2018-06-01 2018-10-01 [55]
Durk Kingma Machine Learning Research Scientist and Team Lead of Algorithms team 2015-12-01 2018-06-01 [85], [86], [87], [88]
Dustin Tran Research Intern 2017-05-01 2017-10-01 intern [89]
Edgar Barraza OpenAI Scholar 2019-02-01 2019-05-01 [90], [91]
Elena Chatziathanasiadou Recruiter 2018-03-01 full-time [92]
Elie Georges Public Relations Specialist 2021-08-01 full-time [93]
Elman Mansimov [94]
Elon Musk Co-Founder 2015-12-11 [95]
Elynn Chen OpenAI Scholar 2019-02-01 2019-05-01 [90], [91]
Emanuele Marchiori Software Engineer 2021-04-01 [96]
Emy Parparita Member Of Technical Staff 2020-05-01 full-time [97]
Eric Price Intern 2016-03-31 intern [7], [8]
Eric Sigler Member of Technical Staff 2018-03-01 [42], [98]
Erika Reinhardt Engineering Director 2017-01-01 2017-08-01 [9], [99]
Erin Grant Member of Technical Staff, Intern 2018-05-01 2018-08-01 intern [100]
Ethan Knight Research Intern on AI Safety Team 2018-06-01 [101], [102]
Eugene Wu Strategist 2022-02-01 [103]
Fatma Tarlaci OpenAI Scholar 2019-02-01 2019-05-01 [90], [91]
Filip Wolski 2016-08-16 [45]
Fotios Chantzis Security Engineering 2020-09-01 full-time [104]
Frances Choi Events & Comms 2021-03-01 [105]
Frances Choi Events & Operations 2019-06-01 2020-07-01 [105]
Frances Choi Events & People 2020-07-01 2021-03-01 [105]
Fraser Kelton Product 2020-07-01 [106]
Gavan Woolery Contract Software Developer 2016-07-01 2016-08-01 contractor [107]
Geoffrey Irving Member of AI safety team 2017-07-01 full-time [108], [109], [110]
Giambattista Parascandolo Research Scientist 2021-10-01 full-time [111]
Gillian Hadfield Senior Policy Advisor 2018-08-01 [17], [112]
Girish Sastry Researcher (Policy) 2019-09-01 [113]
Glenn Powell Member of Technical Staff 2018-02-01 full-time [114], [115]
Greg Brockman Board board member [116]
Greg Brockman Co-Founder and CTO 2015-12-01 [117], [118], [119], [120]
Gretchen M. Krueger Deployment Planning Lead 2021-10-01 full-time [121]
Gretchen M. Krueger Manager, Policy Research 2021-03-01 2021-10-01 full-time [121]
Gretchen M. Krueger Policy Manager 2020-07-01 2021-03-01 full-time [121]
Gualberto Briceño App Developer 2021-04-01 [122]
Han Zhang Research Intern 2017-05-01 2017-08-01 intern [123], [124]
Hanjun Dai Member of Technical Staff, Intern 2018-05-01 2018-08-01 intern [125], [126] Games team
Hannah Davis OpenAI Scholar 2018-06-01 2018-10-01 [55]
Hannah Wong Director, Head of Public Relations 2021-02-01 full-time [127]
Harri Edwards Intern 2016-10-01 2017-02-01 [45], [128]
Harri Edwards Research Scientist 2017-07-01 [128], [129]
Helen (Mengxin) Ji OpenAI Scholar 2019-02-01 2019-05-01 [90], [91], [130]
Helen Toner AI Policy Associate [17]
Henrique Pondé [42]
Holden Karnofsky Board board member [116]
Holly Grimm OpenAI Scholar 2018-06-01 2018-10-01 [55]
Ian Atha Member of Technical Staff 2018-10-01 full-time [131], [132]
Ian Goodfellow Research Scientist 2016-03-01 2017-03-01 full-time [7], [8], [133]
Ife Riamah Content Editor 2019-06-01 [134]
Ifu Aniemeka OpenAI Scholar 2018-06-01 2018-10-01 [55]
Igor Mordatch Intern or visitor 2016-08-16 [45], [135]
Ilge Akkaya Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Team 2019-03-01 full-time [136]
Ilya Sutskever Board board member [116]
Ilya Sutskever Co-Founder and Research Director 2016-01-01 [137], [138], [139]
Ingmar Kanitscheider Research Scientist 2018-08-01 [140]
Isabel Alves de Lima Recruiting Coordinator 2021-06-01 full-time [141]
Ishant Singh Applied AI - Safety 2021-02-01 [142]
Jack Clark Policy Director 2018-10-01 [143]
Jack Clark Strategy and Communications 2016-10-01 2018-10-01 [45], [75], [144], [143]
Jacob Hilton OpenAI Fellow 2018-10-01 2019-04-01 [56] Reinforcement learning team
Jacob Jackson Intern 2018-09-01 2018-12-01 intern [145], [146]
Jade Leung Governance and Policy Advisor 2021-02-01 [147]
Jakob Foerster PhD Research Intern 2017-06-01 2017-08-01 intern [148], [149], [150], [135]
Jakub Pachocki 2017-01-30 [9]
Janet Brown OpenAI Scholar 2019-02-01 2019-05-01 [90], [91]
Janine Korovesis Controller 2018-11-01 2022-02-01 full-time [151]
Janine Korovesis VP Finance 2022-02-01 full-time [151]
Jason Kwon GC 2021-04-01 full-time [152]
Jason Peng Member of Technical Staff, Intern 2017-05-01 2017-08-01 intern [153]
Jean Harb Intern 2017-03-01 2017-06-01 intern [31], [154]
Jeff Arnold Head of Operations 2016-04-01 2016-10-01 [155]
Jeff Clune Software Engineer 2020-01-01 full-time [156]
Jeffrey Wu Research engineer on safety team 2018-08-01 [157], [158]
Jeremy Schlatter Member of Technical Staff 2016-11-30 2017-05-01 full-time [9], [159]
Jerry Tworek Member of Technical Staff 2019-03-01 full-time [160]
Jesse Han Member Of Technical Staff 2021-02-01 full-time [161]
Jessica Shieh AI Strategist 2022-02-01 full-time [162]
Jiaming Song Research Intern 2017-06-01 2017-09-01 intern [163]
Jie Tang 2016-05-25 [164], [165]
Joanne Jang Product 2021-12-01 [166]
Joel Lehman Research Scientist 2020-08-01 full-time [167]
Johannes H. AI Safety Analyst 2021-05-01 2021-11-01 [168]
Johannes H. Research Engineer 2021-11-01 [168]
Johannes Otterbach Member of Technical Staff 2018-12-01 full-time [169]
Johannes Otterbach OpenAI Fellow 2018-06-01 2018-11-01 intern [170], [169]
John Schulman Co-Founder 2015-12-11 [95]
John Schulman Research Scientist 2015-12-01 [171], [172]
Jon Gauthier Intern 2016-06-01 intern [7], [8], [173]
Jonas Schneider Engineering Lead, Robotics 2016-04-01 [174], [164], [165]
Jonathan Gordon Research Scientist 2020-12-01 full-time [175]
Jonathan Gray 2017-01-30 [9]
Jonathan Hernandez Contract Software Engineer 2016-10-01 2017-03-01 [176]
Jonathan Ho Intern 2016-03-31 intern [7], [8]
Jonathan Ho 2017-01-30 [9]
Jonathan Michaux OpenAI Scholar 2019-02-01 2019-05-01 [90], [91]
Jonathan Raiman Research Scientist 2017-10-01 [177], [178]
Jonathan Ward Member Of Technical Staff 2021-02-01 [179]
Jonathan Ward Research Fellow 2021-05-01 2022-02-01 [179]
Jonathan Ward Research Scholar 2020-10-01 2021-04-01 [179]
Joost Huizinga Research Scientist 2020-07-01 full-time [180]
Josh Meier OpenAI Fellow 2018-06-01 2018-10-01 intern [170]
Josh Tobin Research Scientist 2016-10-01 [181], [40], [182], [183]
Joshua Achiam Research Intern 2017-07-01 2017-11-01 intern [184]
Joshua Achiam Research Scientist on Safety Team 2017-12-01 [184], [185]
Julia Galef Advisor 2018-02-20 [116]
Julián Santoro "GPT-3" and "Codex" Beta Tester 2020-10-01 [186]
Justin Wang Front-End Developer 2018-10-01 2019-03-01 contractor [187]
Justin Wang Member of Design Staff 2019-04-01 full-time [187]
Juston Forte AI Specialist 2021-12-01 full-time [188]
Kaleo Hao Research Contributor 2018-02-01 2019-05-01 [189]
Karl Cobbe OpenAI Fellow 2018-06-01 2018-12-01 intern [170], [190]
Karl Cobbe Research Scientist 2018-12-01 intern [190]
Karl Whitford Pollard Global Talent Partner 2021-04-01 full-time [191]
Karson Elmgren Member of Recruiting Staff 2019-03-01 [192]
Karthik Narasimhan Research Scientist 2017-09-01 2018-08-01 [193]
Kate Miltenberger Operations Manager 2016-06-01 2017-09-01 [164], [165], [194]
Kelly Sims Board Advisor 2020-04-01 board member [195]
Kevin Frans Research Intern 2017-05-01 2017-07-01 [196], [197]
Kevin Wong Freelance Level Designer 2018-02-01 2018-05-01 contractor [198]
Kyle Kosic Member Of Technical Staff 2021-04-01 full-time [199]
Lama Ahmad Policy Research Program Manager 2021-10-01 [200]
Larissa Schiavo AI Trainer 2017-09-01 2018-02-01 [201]
Larissa Schiavo Program Manager 2018-02-01 2018-11-01 [42], [201]
Lei Zhang Research Fellow 2018-10-01 2019-04-01 [202], [56] Robotics team
Lei Zhang Research Scientist 2019-04-01 [202]
Lerrel Pinto Research Intern 2017-05-01 2017-08-01 [181], [203]
Lilian Weng Applied AI Research Manager 2021-01-01 full-time [204]
Lilian Weng Research Scientist 2018-02-01 2021-01-01 full-time [204], [205]
Linxi Fan Intern 2016-03-31 intern [7], [8]
Lisa Dethridge Associate Researcher 2021-06-01 [206]
Long Ouyang Research Scientist 2019-06-01 [207]
Louise Cabansay AI Demonstrator 2016-10-01 2017-01-01 [208]
Lucas Negritto Developer Community Ambassador 2021-05-01 part-time [209]
Ludwig Pettersson Member of Technical Staff 2016-09-01 2017-09-01 [164], [165], [210]
Lukasz Kaiser Researcher 2021-06-01 full-time [211]
Luke Miller Ops Generalist 2019-07-01 2020-08-01 [212]
Luke Miller Product Manager 2021-10-01 [212]
Luke Miller Technical Program Manager 2020-08-01 2021-09-01 [212]
Maciej Chociej Member of Technical Staff 2017-11-01 2019-06-01 [213], [214]
Maddie Hall Special Projects 2018-09-01 [215], [216]
Maddie Simens Product Design 2020-11-01 [217]
Manuel Sherbakoff Office Manager 2018-03-01 2018-07-01 [218]
Maran Nelson Advisor 2018-02-20 [116]
Marcin Andrychowicz 2016-05-25 [164], [165]
Marie La Project Management Contractor 2016-10-01 2017-01-01 [219]
Marika Allely Demonstrator 2016-09-01 2016-12-01 [220]
Mario Saltarelli IT Manager 2019-08-01 [221]
Maruan Al-Shedivat Intern 2017-05-01 2017-08-01 intern [222], [149], [223], [224], [135]
Mateusz Litwin Member of Technical Staff 2018-12-01 full-time [225]
Mathew Shrwed Software Engineer 2018-01-01 [226]
Matt Krisiloff Founding Member 2015-12-01 2016-04-01 [227]
Matt Mochary Advisor 2018-08-01 advisor [228]
Matthew Gentzel Researcher (Policy) 2021-10-01 [229]
Matthias Plappert Member of Technical Staff (Intern) 2017-04-01 2017-09-01 [230], [231]
Matthias Plappert Member of Technical Staff 2018-01-01 [230]
Maxim Sokolov Researcher Engineer 2019-02-01 full-time [232]
Meredith Blankenship Beta Test Consultant 2016-10-01 2016-12-01 [233]
Michael Page Policy and Ethics Advisor 2017-01-01 [234], [75]
Michael Petrov Member of Technical Staff 2018-05-01 [42], [235]
Michał Staniszewski Robotics Contractor 2018-08-01 2019-04-01 [236]
Mikhail Pavlov OpenAI Fellow 2018-10-01 2019-04-01 [56] Hardware team
Miles Brundage Head of Policy Research 2021-01-01 [237]
Miles Brundage Research Scientist on the policy team 2018-08-01 2021-01-01 [17], [237]
Mira Murati Strategy Lead 2018-06-01 2020-12-01 [238]
Mira Murati SVP of Research, Product & Partnerships 2020-12-01 [238]
Mo Bavarian Member Of Technical Staff 2020-09-01 full-time [239]
Mor Katz OpenAI Fellow 2019-03-01 [240], [241] Works on the Safety Team, with a project focused on Debate
Munashe Shumba OpenAI Scholar 2018-06-01 2018-10-01 [55]
Nadja Rhodes OpenAI Scholar 2018-06-01 2018-09-01 [55], [242], [243]
Nancy Otero OpenAI Scholar 2019-02-01 2019-05-01 [90], [91], [244]
Natalie Summers Communications 2021-03-01 full-time [245]
Nicolas Papernot [246]
Nikhil Mishra Research Intern 2017-09-01 2017-12-01 intern [247], [248]
Nikolas Tezak Member of Technical Staff 2019-09-01 [249]
Nikolas Tezak OpenAI Fellow 2019-03-01 2019-09-01 intern [250]
Oleg Klimov [251]
Oleg Mürk Member Of Technical Staff (Research Engineer) 2022-01-01 full-time [252]
Pamela Vagata 2015-12-01 [172]
Parnian Barekatain Research Intern 2018-02-01 2018-03-01 intern [253], [254], [255]
Paul Christiano Intern 2016-05-25 [164], [165]
Paul Christiano 2017-01-01 full-time [256], [257], [74] The description given is "working on alignment"
Pavan Sharma AI Consultant 2014-03-01 [258]
Peter Chen Intern 2016-03-31 intern [7], [8]
Peter Chen Research Scientist 2016-05-01 2017-08-01 [9], [259]
Peter Welinder Product, Engineering & Research Lead 2020-01-01 2020-01-01 [260]
Peter Welinder Researcher/Engineer in Robotics and AI 2017-01-01 2020-01-01 [9], [260]
Peter Welinder VP of Product & Partnerships 2020-01-01 [260]
Peter Zhokhov Member of Technical Staff 2018-04-01 full-time [261]
Philippe Tillet Member Of Technical Staff 2020-10-01 full-time [262]
Phillip Isola Visiting Research Scientist 2017-09-01 2018-07-01 [263], [264]
Phuong Vu Recruiter 2020-10-01 full-time [265]
Pieter Abbeel Advisor 2018-02-20 [116]
Pieter Abbeel Research Scientist 2016-01-01 2017-02-20 [266], [267], [116]
Prafulla Dhariwal Intern 2016-05-25 [164], [165]
Prafulla Dhariwal 2017-01-30 [9]
Preston Tuggle Applied AI 2021-11-01 [268]
Przemysław Dębiak [58]
Qiming Yuan Member of Technical Staff, Robotics 2018-12-01 full-time [269]
Quirin Fischer Member of Technical Staff 2017-04-01 2017-08-01 [58], [270]
Rachel Fong Software engineer 2016-10-01 2017-05-01 [9], [271], [272]
Rachelle F. Evaluation Contractor 2020-02-01 contractor [273]
Radhika Mathur Assistant Controller 2021-04-01 full-time [274]
Rafał Józefowicz Researcher 2016-06-01 2018-06-01 [164], [165], [275]
Rajeev Nayak Software Engineer 2021-10-01 [276]
Raul Puri Researcher 2020-07-01 [277]
Red A. Senior Recruiter 2020-06-01 full-time [278]
Reid Hoffman Board board member [1]
Rein Houthooft Intern 2017-03-01 2018-04-01 intern [7], [8], [279]
Rein Houthooft 2017-01-30 [9]
Remco Zwetsloot Policy Analyst 2018-01-01 2018-12-31 [280]
Rewon Child Member of Technical Staff 2018-03-01 [281]
Richard Chen Research Scientist 2017-01-01 2018-04-01 [149], [231], [282]
Richard Ngo Research Scientist 2021-09-01 [283]
Rob Mallery Talent 2021-11-01 full-time [284]
Robert B. Brodsky Compiler Developer 2020-06-01 contractor [285]
Rocky Duan Research Scientist Intern 2016-02-01 2016-08-01 intern [7], [8], [286]
Rocky Duan Research Scientist 2016-08-01 2017-08-01 full-time [9], [286]
Roger Xu Jiang Member Of Technical Staff 2019-10-01 [287]
Rosie Campbell Technical Program Manager 2021-06-01 full-time [288]
Ryan Carey Research Engineering Intern 2018-02-01 2018-03-01 intern [289]
Ryan Lowe Research Intern 2017-02-01 2018-08-01 intern [31], [290], [291]
Ryan Peterson Partner 2022-01-01 [292]
Sadhika Malladi Research Scientist 2018-05-01 2018-10-01 [293]
Sam Altman Co-Founder 2015-12-11 [95]
Sam Altman Board board member [116]
Sam McCandlish Member of the Technical Staff, Safety Team 2018-12-01 full-time [294]
Sam McCandlish OpenAI Fellow 2018-05-01 2018-11-01 intern [170], [294]
Sandy Huang [246]
Sarah Shoker Research Scientist 2021-09-01 full-time [295]
Sarthak Agrawal Safety Analyst 2021-05-01 [296]
Scott Gray Member of Technical Staff 2016-07-01 [45], [297]
Shariq Hashme Member of Technical Staff 2017-01-01 2017-09-01 [9], [298]
Shawn Jain Member of Technical Staff 2021-01-01 [299]
Shimon Whiteson [149]
Shivon Zilis Advisor 2016-04-26 2019-12-01 advisor [267], [300]
Shivon Zilis Board member 2020-01-01 board member [300]
Shun Liao [94]
Smitha Milli Intern [301]
Sophia Arakelyan OpenAI Scholar 2018-06-01 2018-12-01 [55], [302]
Stanislas Polu Research Engineer 2019-09-01 [303]
Stefanie Biaggi Recruiting Coordinator 2021-06-01 full-time [304]
Steven Adler Product Manager & Product Safety Lead 2021-01-01 [305]
Steven Adler Technical Program Manager 2020-12-01 2021-01-01 [305]
Steven Bills Member Of Technical Staff 2022-03-01 [306]
Suchir Balaji Machine Learning Intern 2018-05-01 2018-08-01 intern [307]
Suchir Balaji Member Of Technical Staff 2020-11-01 full-time [307]
Sue Yoon Board 2018-09-01 board member [1], [308]
Sully Chen Researcher 2022-01-01 full-time [309]
Susan Zhang Member of Technical Staff 2018-05-01 full-time [42], [310]
Szymon Sidor Member of Technical Staff 2016-11-01 2018-04-01 [9], [311]
Szymon Sidor Rapid Lead 2018-04-01 2019-02-01 [311]
Tabarak Khan Applied AI - Strategy 2021-03-01 [312]
Taco Cohen Research Intern 2016-11-01 2017-02-01 intern [45], [313]
Taehoon Kim Research Engineer 2018-09-01 [314], [315]
Tambet Matiisen Intern 2016-09-01 2017-03-01 intern [45], [316]
Tamim Asfour [231]
Tao Xu Member Of Technical Staff 2019-09-01 [317]
Tasha McCauley Board board member [1]
Tatiana Zolotova Member of HR Staff 2022-01-01 [318]
Theresa Lopez Member of Operations Staff 2020-09-01 full-time [319]
Thomas Anthony Machine Learning Researcher 2018-04-01 2018-09-01 [320]
Tim Salimans Research Scientist and Team Lead 2016-05-01 2018-07-01 full-time [7], [8], [321]
Tim Shi Member of Technical Staff 2017-01-01 2017-06-01 part-time [322]
Tim Yanchen Wang Technical Copywriter 2020-02-01 [323]
Todor Markov Machine Learning Fellow 2018-10-01 2019-04-01 [324], [56] In the Multiagent team
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Todor Markov Member Of Technical Staff, Multiagent Team 2019-04-01 2020-04-01 full-time [325]
Tolly Powell Member of Applied Staff 2021-12-01 [326]
Tom Brown Member of Technical Staff 2016-01-01 [327], [328], [329], [9]
Trapit Bansal Research Intern 2017-05-01 2017-08-01 intern [222], [330], [331]
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Tyna Eloundou Research Scholar 2020-10-01 2021-01-01 [334]
Tyna Eloundou Researcher, Policy 2021-01-01 [334]
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Vikash Kumar [40]
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Vlad Ursu Independent Developer 2021-06-01 contractor [339]
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Will Rice Consultant 2018-06-01 2018-07-01 [341]
Wojciech Zaremba Co-Founder 2015-12-11 [95]
Wojciech Zaremba Head of Robotics research 2016-01-01 [342], [343], [344]
Xi Chen [231]
Xingyou (Richard) Song OpenAI Fellow 2018-06-01 2018-10-01 intern [170]
Xue Bin Peng [181]
Yan Duan [246]
Yang Liu Research Intern 2017-05-01 2017-08-01 intern [345]
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Yuping Luo Software Engineer Intern 2017-07-01 2017-08-01 intern [350]
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Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3 2020-10-01 Paul Christiano LessWrong OpenAI Hiring-related notice AI safety Paul Christiano posts on LessWrong a hiring note asking for engineers and researchers to work on GPT-3 alignment problems, as the language model is already being deployed in the OpenAI API
What I’ll be doing at MIRI 2019-11-12 Evan Hubinger LessWrong Machine Intelligence Research Institute, OpenAI Evan Hubinger, Paul Christiano, Nate Soares Successful hire AI safety Evan Hubinger, who has just finished an internship at OpenAI with Paul Christiano and others, is going to start work at MIRI. His research will be focused on solving inner alignment for amplification. Although MIRI's research policy is one of nondisclosure-by-default [354] Hubinger expects that his own research will be published openly, and that he will continue collaborating with researchers at institutions like OpenAI, Ought, CHAI, DeepMind, FHI, etc. In a comment, MIRI Executive Director Nate Soares clarifies that "my view of MIRI's nondisclosed-by-default policy is that if all researchers involved with a research program think it should obviously be public then it should obviously be public, and that doesn't require a bunch of bureaucracy. [...] the policy is there to enable researchers, not to annoy them and make them jump through hoops." Cross-posted from the AI Alignment Forum; original is at [355]
Comment on After one year of applying for EA jobs: It is really, really hard to get hired by an EA organisation 2019-02-26 Max Daniel Effective Altruism Forum Open Philanthropy, OpenAI, Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, Centre for Effective Altruism, Future of Humanity Institute, AI Impacts Daniel gives his experience applying to various effective altruist organizations, detailing the time he spent on applications and preparation.
What was your experience like as an intern at OpenAI? 2018-07-16 Quora OpenAI Kevin Frans Job experience AI The question asks about people's internship experience at OpenAI. There is one answer by Kevin Frans, who describes his internship experience from 2017. His first two weeks involved picking a project idea, after which his time was spent mainly on execution. He likes the open and friendly atmosphere, and the fact that people usually eat lunch together and can strike up conversations during lunch
How to train for a job developing AI at OpenAI or DeepMind 2017-07-21 Robert Wiblin 80,000 Hours OpenAI, DeepMind Robert Wiblin, Daio Amodei Job experience AI Robert Wiblin interviews Dario Amodei for the 80,000 Hours podcast about working at OpenAI and about the domains of AI and AI safety. The latter half of the podcast includes advice for people training to work in AI organizations such as OpenAI and DeepMind
[D] What do interns do at OpenAI? 2017-04-05 gsjbjt Reddit OpenAI Ilya Sutskever Job experience AI There is one substantive answer from Ilya Sutskever (Research Director), who says that interns have significant freedom, get to work closely with researchers, and that OpenAI generally hires non-PhD interns
[D] What is the job interview process like at OpenAI? 2017-03-14 zergylord Reddit OpenAI Job application experience AI The discussion thread includes descriptions of interview experiences by a few people, including one who went through the process but was rejected and one who went through the process, was accepted, but ultimately didn't join. One reply suggests that open source contributions may help with landing an on-site interview
AMA: the OpenAI Research Team 2016-01-08 Ilya Sutskever Reddit OpenAI Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Greg Brockman, John Schulman, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba Job experience AI 6 members of the OpenAI research team, including Research Director Ilya Sutskever, conduct an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit. This is about one month after the official launch of OpenAI

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