OpenAI hires an investment banker to teach AI investment banking
OpenAI has posted a job opening for an investment banking expert with at least two years of experience for its Applied AI team in San Francisco. The task is to teach AI real professional skills from the industry. The salary ranges from $185,000 to $205,000 a year, plus company equity.
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OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT for real-world business applications: the company is hiring an investment banking expert to train the AI in professional skills of this industry.
Who OpenAI needs and what they pay
The position is called "subject matter expert" — a subject matter expert. Candidates must have at least two years of practical experience in investment banking.
- Position: Subject Matter Expert, Applied AI team
- Experience: from 2 years in investment banking
- Base salary: $185,000–$205,000 per year
- Additionally: stock compensation
- Location: office in San Francisco
Stock compensation is particularly significant right now: in 2025–2026, OpenAI is restructuring its corporate form, which makes the question of valuation and liquidity of shares for new employees non-trivial.
Why AI needs a live banker
Hiring industry experts to train models is a consistent practice at major AI laboratories. The idea is that a significant portion of professional competencies is not captured in publicly available texts: it exists in the form of judgments, deal valuation rules and negotiation scenarios that are transmitted within the profession.
Investment banking is one of the most closed sectors. Company valuation methodologies, due diligence approaches, principles of LBO or DCF model building are honed over years on real deals. A language model trained only on textbooks and public materials reproduces these skills only approximately.
That is why OpenAI is looking for someone with at least two years of practical experience, not academic knowledge: a live expert can evaluate the quality of a model's response in a way that no automatic method could.
What this means
OpenAI is consistently building specialized AI agents for the professional market — legal, medical, now financial. The hiring of a banker signals that the next generation of the company's tools is aimed at Enterprise customers in the financial sector: here AI should work not as a universal assistant, but as a specialist at the level of a junior analyst in an investment bank.
How does OpenAI train AI for real professions?
The company hires subject matter experts. The vacancy requires at least 2 years of practical experience in investment banking. The specialist joins the Applied AI team in San Francisco and helps train the AI in professional skills.
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