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SamuelMLSmith (2026-06-19) announced OpenAI is hiring senior pre-training…

2026-06-19 · 09:28 UTC ·@SamuelMLSmith ·0 min read

Brief

SamuelMLSmith celebrated receiving a meeting invite from Noam and posted that OpenAI is recruiting top pre-training researchers in London, inviting candidates to work with Nikolay Savinov on architecture, long-context, and scaling research (contact: london-training-hiring@openai.com). Separately, Noam Shazeer announced he is joining OpenAI, noting the move was difficult and expressing pride in his accomplishments and team at Google.

Why it matters

SamuelMLSmith (2026-06-19) announced OpenAI is hiring senior pre-training researchers in London; contact london-training-hiring@openai.com and join a team including Nikolay Savinov to work on architecture, long-context, and the science of scaling.

Key details

Noam Shazeer posted he will be joining OpenAI, saying it was a difficult decision to leave Google and expressing pride in his former Google team (linked: https://nitter.net/NoamShazeer/status/2067400851438932297#m).

Source evidence

Excited to wake up to a meeting invite from Noam!

Reminder: OpenAI is also hiring top pre-training researchers in London.

Come work with me @SavinovNikolay and the team on architecture, long-context, science of scaling, and more!

Contact london-training-hiring@openai.com

Noam Shazeer (@NoamShazeer)

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there.

It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.

— https://nitter.net/NoamShazeer/status/2067400851438932297#m