The landing of OpenAI in Madrid with a new office is starting to take shape. The company is already moving discreetly in the capital and is beginning to gather authorities and clients to explain their plans in Spain. At the same time, the first job offers for the new office in Madrid are starting to appear among the job listings posted by the company.
Specifically, the company's website shows four job offers based in Madrid that hide the most curious part, the salary that the creator of ChatGPT will pay its workers in Spain, but it gives an idea of some of the conditions and roles that the entity is looking for to create its team in the country. Most of these positions are for engineers and represent some of the new professions being created in the technological world with AI. Among the conditions, a key question stands out in the job interview application questionnaire: "Would you be willing to go to the office for three days?", in a clear commitment to maintaining at least part of the work in person with a hybrid model.
Otherwise, it is almost striking the lack of details about the social benefits offered by the company, common in job offers in the entire technology sector and a sign of the strength that OpenAI believes its brand has in attracting talent.
The positions being sought have in common mainly a focus on having experienced personnel. Thus, a position for sales to large companies requires a salesperson with more than 10 years of experience selling software services and who can demonstrate having achieved over two million euros in sales for more than three years.
In engineering positions, the requirements include more than five years of experience, as well as the ability to work "quickly", "calmly and judiciously when the stakes are high", "take risks and adjust them without slowing down", or "humility" as some of the key characteristics they must have beyond programming knowledge. In a more physical aspect, some positions require availability to travel more than 50% of the time.
In these positions, the roles are forward deployed engineer, the trendy position in the AI world for engineers specialized in helping companies integrate this technology into their complex systems, and engineers for pre-sales and opportunity opening and post-sales positions.
At the same time, the company held an inaugural dinner last Wednesday in Madrid to present its plans for the landing to its major clients and authorities. Among those present was, for example, the Digitalization Advisor of the Community of Madrid, Miguel López-Valverde, who was one of the speakers at the inaugural dinner of the project.
Prior to this, the company had held another private event bringing together representatives from the technology sector to showcase the company's plans, as well as prestigious clients of the group in Spain. This list includes BBVA, IESE, or IE University.
"Spanish clients are a reference point for OpenAI not only in Europe but globally. We are here to collaborate, learn, listen, and show the world what Spain is capable of," says one of the company's executives in charge of piloting the deployment of the AI company.