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Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI

OpenAI
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5 days ago

Base Salary

$295k - $445k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design evaluations for research judgment, hypothesis generation and testing, and long-horizon experiment execution.
  • Turn research workflows and model failures into data and evaluation flywheels.
  • Improve model research capabilities through agent harnesses, synthetic data, reinforcement-learning environments, and model training.
  • Build and maintain safe, reliable integrations between models and OpenAI’s research infrastructure.
  • Develop research agents, experiment-orchestration systems, and sandboxed runtimes for research workflows.
  • Create metrics and economic models measuring effects on research productivity, model capabilities, and the safety of internal deployments.

Requirements

  • Research or engineering experience across LLM training, model evaluations, agent systems, synthetic data, research infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to work as a strong generalist across open-ended research and practical implementation.
  • Ability to collaborate across systems, data, model training, evaluations, and research teams.
  • Comfort building and maintaining data pipelines, tooling, and infrastructure for emerging AI capabilities.
  • Ability to work effectively on ambiguous problems without established playbooks.
  • Rigor regarding scientific quality, research judgment, safety, privacy, reliability, performance, and scale.
  • Interest in using increasingly capable AI systems to accelerate meaningful research.

Benefits

  • The role is based in San Francisco, California.
  • OpenAI provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Engineering