28 research jobs found in San Francisco, CA

About the Team The Scaling team designs, builds, and operates critical infrastructure that enables research at OpenAI. Our mission is simple: accelerate the progress of research towards AGI. We do this by building core systems that researchers rely on - ranging from low-level infrastructure components to research-facing custom applications. These systems must scale with the increasing complexity and size of our workloads, while remaining reliable and easy to use. About the Role We're looking for an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and operate production-critical software infrastructure end to end across its full production lifecycle. This role is centered on backend / systems engineering, with emphasis on low-level performance, scalability, distributed systems, and hands-on development and operation of critical services at scale. You'll take ambiguous problems, turn them into concrete plans, ship pragmatic solutions quickly, and improve them through...

About the Team The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation ads experiences, that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI's long-term innovation. Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers, advertisers, and businesses. This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring new ad...

About the Team OpenAI's Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering production-grade silicon for OpenAI's supercomputing infrastructure, the team also creates custom design tools and methodologies that accelerate innovation and enable hardware optimized specifically for AI. About the Role We're seeking a System Software Engineer to join our First-Party Hardware team. In this role, you will design, build, integrate, and validate low-level system software for the manageability and health of OpenAI's first-party AI hardware systems. You will work across BMC, Linux, firmware interfaces, automation infra, boot and recovery, hardware diagnostics, telemetry, host and platform drivers,...

About the team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) org sits at the intersection of product, engineering, research, and go-to-market. We take frontier platform capabilities into the real world with design partners, turning raw customer signal into shipped software, repeatable patterns, and durable products. The FDE Platform team is primarily a leverage function that scales the FDE org's impact to OpenAI's platform and products. We provide hands-on leverage by embedding with customer-tagged FDE pods to aid in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, and building. This team is perfect for highly collaborative software engineers who love innovating on cutting-edge products with other builders. About the role Platform Engineer is a role within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) for strong software and ML engineers who want to build new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. You will partner with customer-tagged FDEs who are driving...

About the Team The Future of Computing Research team is an applied research team in the Consumer Devices group focused on developing new methods and models to support our vision as we advance forward in our mission of building AGI that benefits all of humanity. About the Role As a Technical Lead on the Future of Computing Research team, you will work together with both the best ML researchers in the world and the greatest design talent of our generation to push the frontier of model capabilities. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We follow a hybrid model with 4 days a week in the office and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Evaluate and select silicon platforms (GPUs, NPUs, and specialized accelerators) for on-device and edge deployment of OpenAI models. Work closely with research teams to co-design model architectures that meet real-world deployment constraints such as latency, memory, power, and bandwidth. Analyze and...

About the Team Identity is the foundation of trust in an AI-powered world. As people build a rich personal and organizational context in ChatGPT, they need systems that protect it, remember it, and let them share it securely across apps and agents. Without strong identity, context stays locked away or exposed. With it, AI becomes safe, personal, and truly useful, empowering users while keeping control firmly in their hands. Our team builds the trusted OpenAI account layer that connects people, enterprises, developers, and agents to OpenAI apps and the broader AI ecosystem. Our systems are the front door to OpenAI-held to an exceptionally high bar for availability, security, and latency-and are depended on by many internal teams. About the Role As an Engineering Manager, Identity Infrastructure, you will lead a team owning foundational identity services that must be highly reliable, secure, and fast under extreme load. You'll set direction, grow and support the team, and...

About the Team OpenAI's Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering production-grade silicon for OpenAI's supercomputing infrastructure, the team also creates custom design tools and methodologies that accelerate innovation and enable hardware optimized specifically for AI. Role summary We are seeking a Networking Operating System Firmware Engineer to help bootstrap and scale the switching layer of our AI supercomputers. In this role, you will build and maintain custom NOS images from scratch, using open source components from SONiC, SAI, FRR, and related networking stacks while working across the Linux kernel, switch ASIC SAI/SDKs, platform drivers, control-plane services, and...

About the Team The Product Policy team develops, implements, enforces, and communicates the policies that govern use of OpenAI's services, including ChatGPT, Codex, GPTs, and the OpenAI API. This cyber-focused role will help define how OpenAI enables legitimate cybersecurity work while reducing the risk that our products are misused for cyber abuse. This role sits at the intersection of AI capability, cybersecurity practice, and abuse prevention: helping defenders use OpenAI's tools effectively while setting clear boundaries against malicious cyber activity. About the Role As a Product Policy Manager specializing in Cyber, you will combine cyber and policy expertise to guide how OpenAI evaluates, launches, and governs capabilities relevant to cybersecurity. You will work closely with product, engineering, research, safety, security, legal, operations, and go-to-market teams to translate complex cyber risk into practical product policy, implementation standards, enforcement...

About the team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Product Design team works across research, engineering, and product to bring OpenAI's technology to the world through intuitive, responsible, and accessible experiences. We serve a diverse and growing audience of users-from everyday consumers to developers to large enterprises-and we believe thoughtful design is essential to making powerful AI tools useful and understandable. We seek to learn from real-world deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this transformative technology is used safely and ethically. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. Design plays a critical role here. To succeed in our mission, it's essential that our design teams can focus on high-impact work, supported by clear systems, strong execution, and seamless cross-functional collaboration. We're hiring a Product Design Program Manager to help...

About the Team The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation ads experiences, that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI's long-term innovation. Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers, advertisers, and businesses. This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring new ad...

About the Team The Real Estate team at OpenAI is responsible for delivering workplaces that exist at the intersection of operational excellence and elevated aesthetics, and managing OpenAI's real estate portfolio to ensure that the organization is well-positioned for success in pursuit of our mission. About the Role As a Project Manager on the Design and Construction team, you will have the unique opportunity to shape OpenAI's global footprint and drive the growth of the Design and Construction team. You'll manage the full lifecycle of commercial construction projects, from initial design to final handover, and collaborate with internal and external partners to keep our expansion plans running at peak efficiency. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, but you will be expected to travel to project sites on occasion. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Oversee and execute a...

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI's mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Identity Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of this effort, designing and building the identity and access management solutions that protect our model weights, customer data, and critical systems across multiple cloud environments. We partner with teams across OpenAI-Applied Engineering, Research, IT, and Security-to provide a secure and scalable platform for permissioning, orchestration, and innovative AI research. About the Role We're looking for a Staff+ Software Engineer to help build and evolve the identity infrastructure that supports OpenAI's research, engineering, and internal platforms. This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, identity systems, and software engineering. You'll work across production systems, infrastructure-as-code, cloud control planes, identity providers, and operational...

About the Team: The OpenAI API team builds the foundation that enables every developer to harness OpenAI's models safely, reliably, and at scale. We design and operate the systems that power model serving, API access, billing, developer tooling, and enterprise integrations-forming the connective tissue between OpenAI's research breakthroughs and real-world products. Our mission is to make it effortless for anyone to build with OpenAI technology. We're responsible for the infrastructure and product layers that allow millions of developers to integrate GPT models, fine-tune behavior, manage data, and deliver transformative experiences to their users. We collaborate across product, research, and engineering teams to ensure that innovation in model capabilities translates directly into value for customers. The API team spans multiple disciplines, including product management, infrastructure engineering, developer experience, and data systems. We care deeply about reliability,...

About the Team The Real Estate team at OpenAI is responsible for delivering workplaces that exist at the intersection of operational excellence and elevated aesthetics, and managing OpenAI's real estate portfolio to ensure that the organization is well-positioned for success in pursuit of our mission. About the Role As an Industrial Builds Project Manager on the Design & Construction team, you will support OpenAI's research, scaling and manufacturing activities by providing project management and leadership on mission critical construction projects with complex engineering design and extensive interfaces. This role owns technical coordination across MEP, civil/structural, and architectural scopes, and is accountable for on-time, on-budget delivery of complex build-outs. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, but you will be expected to travel to project sites regularly, aligned with project requirements. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and...

About the Team The Applied team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. We released ChatGPT; Plugins; DALL• E; and the APIs for GPT-4, GPT-3, embeddings, and fine-tuning. We also operate inference infrastructure at scale. There's a lot more on the immediate horizon. Our customers build fast-growing businesses around our APIs, which power product features that were never before possible. ChatGPT is a prime example of what is currently possible. We simultaneously ensure that our powerful tools are used responsibly. Safe deployment is more important to us than unfettered growth. The Scaled Abuse team works within our Applied Engineering organization identifying and responding to fraudsters on our platform. We are looking for a data scientist with anti fraud & abuse experience to help architect and build our next-generation anti-abuse systems. About the Role The Platform Abuse team protects OpenAI's products from abuse. In the data scientist role, you will be...

About the Team The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products-including next-generation ads experiences-that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI's long-term innovation. Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers and businesses. This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring research breakthroughs...

About the Team The Software Engineering team is responsible for designing and building the scalable, performant, and secure backend systems that power our products-from early prototypes to large-scale deployments. We collaborate closely with product, hardware, and full-stack teams to ensure our infrastructure enables fast iteration while setting a strong foundation for long-term growth. About the Role As a Backend Engineer , you will design and build services, APIs, and infrastructure that support evolving product needs. You'll apply a deep understanding of backend systems and maintain enough end-to-end context-from hardware to cloud-to guide technical decisions that best serve the product and team. We're looking for engineers who thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments and care deeply about building robust systems that scale. This role is based in San Francisco, CA . We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation...

About the job User Interface Developer (Hybrid UX Engineer / Interactive Systems Developer) User Interface Developer (Hybrid UX Engineer / Interactive Systems Developer) Compensation: $150K-$250K base + equity (no bonus) Location: San Francisco, CA Hiring Target: 1 Work Policy: 5 days/week in-office Sponsorship: Visa transfers supported (not open to OPT) Stage: Seed-stage surgical robotics company | $14M raised Who Are We? Were building autonomous surgical robots designed to dramatically shorten the learning curve for complex procedures. By combining robotics, ML, computer vision, and intuitive human-machine interfaces, were redefining how surgeons interact with advanced surgical systems. Our mission is bold and tangible: make high-quality surgical care more accessible worldwide by lowering the technical barrier for surgeons. Were well-funded, commercially progressing, and building a team that blends creativity with deep technical execution. What's in It for You? Work on...

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios and beyond. About the Role: The controls algorithms running onboard our autonomous drones define its behavior creating stable/smooth flight and gimbal motion. This enables our pilots to easily execute their objectives from inspection & mapping to missions and security use cases. You will contribute to the development and implementation of the core motion planning software touching everything from the low-level stabilization and control, to high level task-specific frameworks, with a particular focus on the low-level controls....

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios and beyond. About the role: Learning a semantic and geometric understanding of the world from visual data is the core of our autonomy system. We are pushing the boundaries of what is possible with real-time deep networks to accelerate progress in intelligent mobile robots. If you are excited about solving open-end problems in object detection and tracking, motion prediction, flow estimation, and total scene understanding, while leveraging massive amounts of structured video data, we would love to hear from you. How you'll make...