News OpenAI engineers can earn up to $800K per year — among the highest rates in the industry

[Admin]

OpenAI engineering staff are among the best paid in the industry with data suggesting that a recruit at the ChatGPT firm can expect salary plus bonuses and stock awards to be worth about $800,000 per annum.

OpenAI engineers can earn up to $800K per year — among the highest rates in the industry : Read more

 

[USAFRet]

"a talented recruit can expect"

This is like being the first or second round draft pick in the NFL/NBA.

Not your typical person.


One of the little chuckleheads at my office is going to see this, and assume it means him personally.
"No dude, you are not that."

 

[jeremyj_83]

Better question is where can someone get the training to get into this field of IT.

 

[bit_user]

"a talented recruit can expect"

This is like being the first or second round draft pick in the NFL/NBA.

Not your typical person.

Yeah, they surely want folks with advanced degrees from universities with the top AI programs or their leading industry competitors. If you just dabble with AI at home and take a free online course, don't even expect to hear back from them after submitting your resume'.

It reminds me of the kinds of Wall St. jobs I heard about, 10-15 years ago. If you had a double major in CS and finance, from a top university, you could land a job at a hedge fund and make $350k. The average developer need not apply.

Better question is where can someone get the training to get into this field of IT.

It's not hard to find online classes. They'll give you a basic grounding in the theoretical underpinnings, plus teach you the main points about how to apply AI to tackle different sorts of problems. That might get your foot in the door, at most places offering more normal salaries - especially if you have some adjacent work experience to draw from.

I took Andrew Ng's original Machine Learning course, at Coursera, not long after it launched. It was derived directly from his Stanford course, but they watered down the math and (I think) did a bit more hand-holding through the exercises. I'm not sure which of their current courses it is, but perhaps they split it into multiple ones:

https://www.coursera.org/search?query=AI&partners=Stanford+University
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For me, the time commitment of those courses was the biggest problem. I don't know if it's the same as before, but it's no joke. You'd think online learning means you get to go at your own pace, but they kept it to a normal university class calendar + 1 week grace period.

 

[slightnitpick]

can earn up to​

People, including me, use the word "earn" for salaries all the time. But I do wish editors and journalists would normalize to "be paid" or "compensated" or the like. As a word, "earn" brings with it a moral judgement of worth or entitlement to both no more and no less than the sum so earned. "Get" saves a letter for a title.

And we all know in real life, much less capitalism, that this is not the case. Compensation comes down to negotiation, with employees usually paid less than they earn, so that the capital (or in the case of a non-profit, the non-profit mission) has a return on investment. And sometimes employees are paid more than they earn, especially in the case of job-hoppers, but also in the case of start-ups and other scenarios where the pay is a gamble or there just aren't enough people to do a job at the value-added wage.

I know there are people who believe that this is just, but I think even they would typically agree that, at least in well-functioning organizations, an employee has to "earn" more value for the organization than they are paid. Otherwise the organization will ultimately fail.

 

[PEnns]

Better question is where can someone get the training to get into this field of IT.

And the best part? They always want you to have X years of experience in such a new field!!

 

[Zemeckis5]

This is incorrect information. Engineers at OpenAI can earn well over $800k not “up to”. Industry hires start at around $1M and it only goes up from there. $800k might be the upper end for someone fresh out of a PhD with no industry experience

 

[USAFRet]

This is incorrect information. Engineers at OpenAI can earn well over $800k not “up to”. Industry hires start at around $1M and it only goes up from there. $800k might be the upper end for someone fresh out of a PhD with no industry experience

6 months ago, starting salaries may have been different.
6 months from now, different again.

 

[bit_user]

This is incorrect information. Engineers at OpenAI can earn well over $800k not “up to”. Industry hires start at around $1M and it only goes up from there. $800k might be the upper end for someone fresh out of a PhD with no industry experience

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