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Recruiting at OpenAI

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Hiring the Future at OpenAI

In front of an online audience of thousands last Thursday, OpenAI’s head recruiter, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, described one of the common threads that draws talent to the company: OpenAI’s culture.
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At OpenAI, we’re building safe AGI that benefits all of humanity. We look for people who are inspired by this mission and ready to tackle big challenges
# Career
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# OpenAI Presentation
Joaquin  Quiñonero Candela
Natalie Cone
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela & Natalie Cone · Jul 25th, 2025
This forum conversation showcased OpenAI’s deep alignment between its internal culture and its global mission: to build AGI that benefits everyone. Joaquin’s career story—spanning safety research, a personal return to hands-on coding as an intern, and his unexpected move into recruiting—served as a powerful narrative about humility, mission-alignment, and human-centered innovation. The conversation emphasized OpenAI’s commitment to democratizing AI access, building infrastructure for economic transformation, and advancing AI that reflects democratic values, not autocratic control.
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