OpenAI creates 200 new Dublin positions and launches Applied AI Lab

OpenAI revealed a plan to add 200 jobs in Dublin, combining with a previously announced 250 roles to bring its Irish hiring commitment to at least 450 positions. The company already employs more than 120 staff in the country. A new Applied AI Lab will be established at the EU headquarters in the Tropical Fruit Warehouse building, staffed by forward-deployed engineers, solutions engineers and privacy engineers, alongside sales and user-operations positions.

CFO Sarah Friar, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and IDA Ireland CEO Michael Lohan attended a ceremony to highlight the expansion, which also features a deeper partnership with Dogpatch Labs and a broader rollout of the SME Academy. OpenAI will extend its OpenAI for Ireland program, offering a Founder Cafe initiative that will train roughly 150 Irish founders on ChatGPT, Codex and API tools. The move follows recent AI-related layoffs in Dublin and reflects OpenAI’s broader push to strengthen its European leadership.