OpenAI Researchers Post About Astra Access and Hiring

Will Depue posted asking someone at OpenAI for early Astra access. Eric Mitchell replied that the company is hiring and that studying hard could let someone join. Depue is described as a Research Engineer with prior work on Sora, o3 and 4o post-training. Mitchell is described as a Research Engineer co-leading post-training on o1 and GPT-5. The exchange consists of these two public posts.