OpenAI starts hiring engineers in India for enterprise focus

OpenAI, the world's most valuable artificial intelligence (AI) startup and maker of ChatGPT, has begun hiring engineers in India as it looks to deepen its presence - especially in the enterprise segment -in what has become its largest market outside the US by user base.

- Jas Bardia & Shouvik Das

Speaking at a media roundtable in Bengaluru on Tuesday, Srinivas Narayanan, chief technology officer for business applications of the San Francisco-based company, and Pragya Misra, head of strategy and global affairs for India, said the company has started hiring solutions engineers in its India team.

While they did not call out any hiring figures, they said the plan is to keep a "lean team" in the first year of setting up an office in the country.

"We have go-to-market roles that are open, have been open now for the last month or so when we announced our India office in August," Misra said. "Since then, we've opened up a bunch of go-tomarket roles, and also solution engineers and architects who can then support those go-tomarket folks."

She added that the company will focus on building a foundational team in the first six months to a year. "And then we'll, of course, keep building more and more," Misra added.