Fidji Simo
Jul 9, 2026
OpenAINext role not statedMedical leave ran longer than expected, so she moves to a part-time advisory role.
Chief Technology Officer move
Vijaye RajiJoins OpenAI as CTO of Applications
AppointedChief Technology Officer
Announced
Sep 2, 2025
Effective
Not stated
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News
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Why, in the source's words
Raji will report to Simo and will head product engineering for ChatGPT, the company’s AI coding tool Codex, and future applications that OpenAI plans to build.
Also at these companies
- Departed
- Departed
Barret Zoph
Jan 14, 2026
Returns to OpenAI.
- Poached
Sachin Katti
Nov 10, 2025
Will build out OpenAI compute infrastructure for artificial general intelligence.
- Poached
Fidji Simo
May 7, 2025
Leaves Instacart over several months to join OpenAI full-time later in the year.
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