Or at least rhetorically; no idea what their actual practice is.
But considering that e.g. Apple lost important senior contributors over the return to a hybrid work model, I would not be surprised if employees with some leverage at ostensibly f2f companies were not given ongoing WfH privileges.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI extensively used (and continue to use) remote workers for fullstack and frontend development. But their core AI researchers and engineers are in the office.
I know several people who interviewed at OAI recently and they were told explicitly it's office only. None of them were ML devs so it's probably highly team dependent.
I had an initial talk for a non-AI eng role with OpenAI, and they required in-office to SF, which was a no-go for me as someone who lives in the deep south bay.
Or at least rhetorically; no idea what their actual practice is.
But considering that e.g. Apple lost important senior contributors over the return to a hybrid work model, I would not be surprised if employees with some leverage at ostensibly f2f companies were not given ongoing WfH privileges.