OpenAI

People at OpenAI

• Aditya RameshVP of Research; leads Worldsim · OpenAI
• Alex NicholDeep learning research · OpenAI
• Eric MitchellCo-lead of the Post-training Frontiers team (with Yann Dubois) · OpenAI
• Greg BrockmanCo-founder and President · OpenAI
• Jakub PachockiChief Scientist · OpenAI
• Jong Wook KimMember of technical staff (since August 2019) · OpenAI
• Łukasz KaiserListed under Reasoning Research leadership in the OpenAI o1 System Card; GitHub profile lists OpenAI · OpenAI
• Mark ChenChief Research Officer · OpenAI
• Noam BrownResearch Scientist · OpenAI
• Peter SteinbergerCreator of OpenClaw and "Clawfather" of the foundation, continuing to steward the project · OpenClaw Foundation
• Prafulla DhariwalResearch scientist working on generative models and unsupervised learning · OpenAI
• Sam AltmanCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer · OpenAI
• Sarah FriarChief Financial Officer · OpenAI
• Shantanu JainWorks on language models, including training data and training infrastructure (since 2020) · OpenAI
• Thibault SottiauxHead of Codex (OpenAI's title for Sottiaux in May 2026) · OpenAI
• Xinlei ChenContributes to OpenAI's multimodal work · OpenAI
• Zico KolterProfessor and Department Head, Machine Learning Department · Carnegie Mellon University

Other documented roles

People whose source profile documents a role here that is not confirmed as current.

• Alec RadfordListed with an "Independent" affiliation on 2026 arXiv papers · Independent researcher
• Alexander KirillovWorks on multimodal AI models · Thinking Machines Lab
• Amanda AskellLeads Anthropic's Character work (finetuning and AI alignment) · Anthropic
• Andrej KarpathyVoices
• Aravind SrinivasCofounder and CEO · Perplexity
• Barret ZophBuilders & open source
• Ben MannCo-founder · Anthropic
• Bob McGrewBuilders & open source
• Chris OlahCo-founder · Anthropic
• Collin BurnsBuilders & open source
• Daniela AmodeiCo-founder and President · Anthropic
• Dario AmodeiCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer · Anthropic
• Diederik P. KingmaResearch on large-scale machine learning (2024–current) · Anthropic
• Diogo AlmeidaFounder and CEO · TypeSafe AI
• Elon MuskChief Executive Officer, Chief Technical Officer and Chairman · SpaceX
• Evan HubingerAlignment Stress-Testing lead · Anthropic
• Hyung Won ChungBuilders & open source
• Ian GoodfellowBuilders & open source
• Ilya SutskeverCo-founder and CEO · Safe Superintelligence Inc.
• Jack ClarkCo-Founder and Head of Public Benefit · Anthropic
• Jacob SteinhardtAssociate Professor of Statistics and EECS · University of California, Berkeley
• Jan LeikeLeads the Alignment Science team · Anthropic
• Jared KaplanCo-Founder and Chief Science Officer · Anthropic
• Jason WeiWorks at Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta Superintelligence Labs
• Jeff CluneProfessor, Computer Science · University of British Columbia
• Jim FanSenior Research Scientist and Lead of the AI Agents Initiative; co-lead of the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group, with Yuke Zhu · NVIDIA
• John SchulmanCofounder and chief scientist · Thinking Machines Lab
• Kenneth StanleySVP of Open-Endedness · Lila Sciences
• Liam FedusListed under "Who we are" on the Periodic Labs homepage · Periodic Labs
• Logan KilpatrickWorks on Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, enabling developers to build with Gemini · Google DeepMind
• Mira MuratiCo-founder and CEO · Thinking Machines Lab
• Natalia GimelsheinCore Maintainer · PyTorch (open-source project)
• Paul ChristianoExecutive Director · Alignment Research Center
• Pieter AbbeelProfessor, Jim Gray Chair of Engineering; Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab; Co-Director of BAIR · University of California, Berkeley
• Ronen EldanBuilders & open source
• Sam McCandlishCo-Founder and Chief Architect · Anthropic
• Sébastien BubeckBuilders & open source
• Shengjia ZhaoChief Scientist for the new lab effort (as stated by Meta in July 2025) · Meta Superintelligence Labs
• Shixiang Shane GuSenior Staff Research Scientist (Gemini Thinking team) · Google DeepMind
• Shunyu YaoBuilders & open source
• Susan ZhangBuilders & open source
• Tom BrownCo-Founder and Chief Compute Officer · Anthropic
• Vikash KumarCo-founder, CEO · Myolab.ai
• Wojciech ZarembaHead of AI Resilience · OpenAI Foundation
• Yang SongResearch Principal · Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
• Zhuohan LiAI Research Scientist · Meta

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