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OpenAI Lists 720 Open Roles and Anthropic Lists 380 as Both Companies Expand Hiring
OpenAI plans to nearly double its 4,500-person workforce this year while Anthropic lists around 380 open roles. Job seekers describe both labs as top career destinations in the current AI boom.
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OpenAI and Anthropic are posting hundreds of open positions as both companies expand their workforces at a fast pace. OpenAI currently lists about 720 open jobs and aims to almost double its 4,500-person staff this year, according to a March report by the Financial Times. Anthropic, which has more than 3,500 employees, lists around 380 open roles.
The two labs have drawn intense interest from job seekers who view them as the new prestige employers in technology. Sundeep Teki, a career coach who helps place talent at AI companies, told Business Insider that nine times out of ten the candidates he speaks with list OpenAI or Anthropic as target employers. "Anthropic is the No.
1 priority," Teki said. Workers cite the chance to work on cutting-edge models and the possibility of large payouts if either company goes public. " He added that startups like OpenAI and Anthropic offer "massive room for growth" and compensation that matches Big Tech.
Anthropic grew from 1,000 to 4,000 employees over the last year, according to Rune Kvist, who joined the company when it had fewer than 50 staff. Kvist said the labs' repeated release of advanced models has driven interest more than marketing. "I actually think the vibes are downstream of the models, rather than the other way," he said.
Kathleen Bartin, who returned to the workforce after parenting full-time in 2025, estimates she has applied to 40 roles at Anthropic. She said she became interested after a Zoom presentation on AI tools and immediately bought subscriptions to Anthropic and Perplexity. Bartin was offered an interview but missed the email while traveling and has not heard back on dozens of other applications.
Jesse Ratner, a freelance tech copywriter, applied to Anthropic and said he almost fell for a fake recruitment message in May. He described the opportunity as comparable to landing a job at Google or Apple a decade earlier. Marx Ojemudia, a designer, has applied to both labs and likened a role there to the long-term stability his father found during a 30-year career at Ford.
