OpenAI is ramping up its efforts in the investment banking sector, with the latest job postings indicating that the company is seeking investment professionals with more than two years of experience to join the San Francisco applied AI team as a "subject matter expert." The base salary for this position is $185,000 per year, with a maximum of $205,000 (approximately 1.394 million RMB). In addition to the salary, equity incentives are also offered—considering OpenAI has already started preparing for a private IPO, the value of this equity is self-evident.

It's not about hiring investment bankers to use AI, but rather to "teach" AI how to understand investment banking.

In the job description, OpenAI clearly states that candidates must have an in-depth and cutting-edge understanding of the actual operations of investment banking, including company and industry research, financial analysis and modeling, valuation, due diligence, transaction execution, and the preparation and review of client materials. More importantly, candidates must clearly understand the work content and decision-making logic at all levels, from junior analysts to directors, and accurately distinguish which business processes can be automated by AI, which are suitable for AI-assisted decision-making, and which must remain under human review.

This description outlines a unique role: it's not about hiring investment bankers to "use" AI, but rather to "teach" AI to understand investment banking. The appointed individual will work closely with the product team to identify the most valuable application scenarios for AI in investment banking, build new business process prototypes using OpenAI's proprietary tools, and verify whether the initial results meet the needs of real practitioners. In short, OpenAI aims to establish a "quality standard" for AI empowering investment banking.

Big players are competing for Wall Street, and the enterprise market for AI is heating up.

The recent hiring by OpenAI reflects the intense competition among AI companies for the lucrative enterprise financial market. In May of this year, Anthropic launched ten new intelligent agent tools designed to simplify various basic and repetitive tasks on Wall Street, and in their presentation materials, they positioned the financial services industry as the second-largest revenue-generating sector for enterprises,仅次于 the technology industry.

Competitors have already made significant progress. Anthropic has opened access to the Claude Mythos preview version under its "Glass Wing Project" to a select group of institutions, with JPMorgan being an early partner. The project has now expanded to 15 countries and over 150 companies. OpenAI is not lagging behind either; Goldman Sachs has invested in its deployment business subsidiary and became a co-developer of OpenAI's "Trusted Network Access Program" in April.