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OpenAI adds 200 Dublin jobs and builds its second applied AI lab

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OpenAI is adding 200 roles in Dublin and building an applied AI lab at its EU headquarters, taking planned Irish hiring to 450. The move lands two days before Ireland hosts the International AI Summit under its EU presidency.

OpenAI is adding 200 jobs in Dublin and building an applied AI lab at its European headquarters. That takes its planned Irish hiring to 450 roles.

The company announced the roles in a statement on Monday, Bloomberg reported, and employs more than 120 people in Ireland. They include forward deployed, solutions and privacy engineers, plus sales and user operations.

It follows the 250 roles announced in July, when OpenAI took an 88,000 square foot lease at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse in the Docklands. The company moves in from December.

The lab is the second of its kind. It is a deployment unit rather than a research one, pairing engineers with...

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