OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots

OpenAI opened 21 robotics vacancies in San Francisco; the highest-paid is an ML engineer at $380,000–500,000 plus equity, tasked with building the training pipeline. Engineers building the robots themselves have no salary ranges listed.

• 21 open robotics roles, all in San Francisco
• ML engineer: $380,000–500,000 plus equity
• Inference engineer gets fixed $380,000
• Robotics team relaunched in 2024 after 2021 closure