edwarddgao/open-apply-jobs

Open-Apply Jobs

A daily-refreshed open dataset of active job postings sourced directly from public ATS APIs (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby). Every record can be traced back to the hiring company's own career board.

• Refresh: automated daily at 06:00 UTC
• Partitioning: Hive-partitioned Parquet (date=YYYY-MM-DD/source={ats})
• Source code: https://github.com/edwarddgao/openapply

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset('edwarddgao/open-apply-jobs')

# Latest snapshot only
import duckdb
duckdb.sql("""
  SELECT title, source_slug, apply_url, locations
  FROM read_parquet('hf://datasets/edwarddgao/open-apply-jobs/data/**/*.parquet',
                    hive_partitioning=1)
  WHERE date = (SELECT MAX(date) FROM read_parquet(
    'hf://datasets/edwarddgao/open-apply-jobs/data/**/*.parquet', hive_partitioning=1))
    AND 'Software Engineer' = ANY(string_split(title, ' '))
""").show()

Partition layout

data/
├── date=YYYY-MM-DD/
│   ├── source=greenhouse/part-*.parquet
│   ├── source=lever/part-*.parquet
│   └── source=ashby/part-*.parquet
├── date=YYYY-MM-DD/
│   └── ...

Each date= folder is a full snapshot of that day's active postings — not an incremental delta. Diff two consecutive dates to get added / removed / modified jobs.

Schema

Field	Type	Notes
id	string	{source}:{slug}:{native_id} — unique across the dataset
source	string	greenhouse | lever | ashby
source_slug	string	Tenant slug on that ATS (e.g. databricks, spacex)
title	string	Job title
apply_url	string	Canonical URL on the ATS career site
description_html	string?	Full HTML description (~100% populated)
employment_type	string?	e.g. FullTime, Contract, Internship
department	string?	Free-form; ATS-dependent
locations	list[string]	Always a list; may be empty for fully-remote
remote	bool?	Structured where available; otherwise inferred from location text
posted_at	string?	ISO 8601 UTC
salary_min / salary_max	float?	Only Ashby/Lever expose structured comp (~30%). Greenhouse salary is embedded in description_html
salary_currency	string?	ISO 4217 (USD, EUR, GBP)
salary_period	string?	HOUR | DAY | WEEK | MONTH | YEAR

Collection methodology

1. Tenant discovery. Common Crawl CDX queries against boards.greenhouse.io/*, jobs.lever.co/*, jobs.ashbyhq.com/*, unioned across five crawl snapshots. ~10k distinct tenants per refresh.
2. Fetch. Each tenant's public JSON board API is called with 16-way concurrency; retries only on transient 5xx/408/429/network errors.
3. Normalize. Per-ATS records are mapped to a canonical schema (the table above) — 3 adapter functions, ~200 lines total.
4. Publish. Daily partition written via pyarrow.parquet.write_to_dataset with zstd compression, uploaded via huggingface_hub.HfApi.upload_folder.

No authentication required for any endpoint. Every URL hit is publicly documented or trivially discoverable in ATS client SDKs.

What's covered / what isn't

In scope: the 3 "modern" developer-friendly ATSes. Heavy coverage of tech, startups, AI/ML, biotech, agencies, and other knowledge-work-heavy employers.

Not in scope (yet): Workday, Oracle Cloud HCM, iCIMS, SuccessFactors, Taleo, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Jobvite. These have either private APIs (Workday), high-volume-retail bias (SmartRecruiters), SMB noise (Workable), or HTML-only feeds (Jobvite). Collectively they host ~70% of enterprise postings but dilute signal for most downstream uses.

Known limitations

• ~30% tenant fetch failure rate. Slugs in the input list include defunct/renamed companies CC still references. These return 404 and are dropped.
• No tombstoning. A job present in date=N but absent in date=N+1 is simply gone; there's no explicit closed_at flag. Compute by diffing.
• No deduplication across ATSes. A company listing the same role on both Greenhouse and Lever will appear twice. Rare in practice.
• Salary fields are sparse and noisy. Where structured comp is exposed, regex-parsed from the ATS's free-form compensationTierSummary string. Fall back to description_html for the full picture.

License

MIT for the dataset packaging. The underlying job descriptions are copyright their respective employers and are redistributed under fair use for research and product purposes. If you are an employer and want a listing removed, open an issue on the GitHub repo.

Citation

@misc{openapply2026,
  author = {edwarddgao},
  title  = {Open-Apply Jobs},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/edwarddgao/open-apply-jobs}
}