OpenAI offers robotics engineers up to $500,000 base pay as humanoid hiring doubles
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-09-21
OpenAI is scaling its robotics effort, per Business Insider: 27 robotics job listings on its careers page, up from 11 in May, spanning hardware, software, data collection, and prototyping, with advertised base salaries of $177,000 to $500,000 before equity.
- Roles include actuator design engineers building motors and mechanisms, data-collection teams for robot training, and testers — not just control software
- The listings show OpenAI is building robotics hardware in-house, signaling a full hardware-software push
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