How to get a referral at OpenAI
Referred candidates are far more likely to land an interview than cold applicants — yet most people apply to OpenAI through the front door and never hear back. Here's what OpenAI is hiring for right now, and how to find someone in your own network who can refer you in.
Who can refer you into OpenAI?
Rezymap reads your resume and maps the people in your LinkedIn network who already work at OpenAI — so you can ask for a referral instead of applying cold. Free to try.
Find your warm paths into OpenAI →Skills OpenAI hires for
Aggregated from OpenAI's current openings — tailor your resume to these.
Open roles at OpenAI (11)
6 remote · Hiring in San Francisco, Seoul
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AI Deployment Engineer, Enterprise
Remote
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Lead Industrial Designer, Robotics
Remote
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Mechanical Design Engineer
San Francisco
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Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse
San Francisco
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Software Engineer, RL Training Infra
Remote
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AI Deployment Engineer
Remote
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Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF
Remote
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Research Engineer
San Francisco
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Security Engineer, Application Security
Remote
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Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
San Francisco
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Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering
San Francisco
How to get referred at OpenAI, step by step
- 1Find the connection: identify people in your network who work at OpenAI — former colleagues, classmates, or 2nd-degree connections. Rezymap surfaces these automatically from your LinkedIn export.
- 2Match to the right role: pick the OpenAI opening that best fits your background so your referral ask is specific and easy to say yes to.
- 3Tailor your resume: mirror the skills OpenAI lists (above) so your referrer can confidently vouch for you.
- 4Make the ask: send a short, specific message referencing the exact role. Rezymap drafts a ready-to-send intro for each connection.
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