30 research engineer research scientist jobs found in San Francisco, CA

About the Team The RL team drives the core reasoning paradigm and has created groundbreaking innovations such as o1 and o3. They focus on pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning research, building next-generation generative models, and deploying them at scale. About the Role As a Research Engineer/Research Scientist at OpenAI, you will advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods. Your work will sit at the heart of training intelligent, aligned, and general-purpose agents, including the systems that power various models. We're looking for people who have a background in reinforcement learning research, are able to iterate quickly, and are proficient at coding. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. You might thrive in this role if: You love being on the cutting edge of RL and language model research. You're...

About the Team The Deep Research team is responsible for building the models that power our Deep Research capability (see our research preview) and other future agentic offerings. Our team helps shape the direction of our agentic products and conducts fundamental research inspired by our product direction. About the Role As a Research Engineer / Scientist, you will do research and engineering work to improve our models. Potential research areas include: Working closely with product to identify new agentic capabilities, and developing methods to train these capabilities into the model Developing evals and datasets to assess and improve the model's performance on challenging or important tasks Pursuing algorithmic improvements to improve the intelligence of the model Developing new tools and training the model to use them We're looking for individuals with ML engineering skills, research experience, and an interest in building products. This role is based in San...

About the Team The Agents team within Research works in research areas combining language models, reinforcement learning, and agents. About the Role We're looking for Research Engineers / Scientists eager to advance the frontier of agent research. This role involves a full process from fundamental research to launching the research work as an agent product. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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: Own and pursue a research agenda to identify the weakness of the model and improve it Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements. Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack. You might thrive in this role if you: Believe that having a solid evaluation is crucial for research projects to succeed Are excited about shipping the research work as a product Don't have biased opinions on what methodology...

About the Team The Agents team within Research works in research areas combining language models, reinforcement learning, and agents. Agent Robustness and Control focuses on ensuring safe and secure iterative deployment of agents through systems, product, and research engineering work. About the Role We're looking for research engineers excited to advance the frontier of agent research, safety, and security. This role is focused on integrating safety and security at every layer of the stack from fundamental research to launching the work as a product. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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: Train and evaluate models with a focus on robustness and monitoring-in-the-loop Own and pursue innovative solutions to safety and security risks with no clear answer Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research and product stack...

About the Team Our team is dedicated to shaping the future of artificial intelligence by equipping ChatGPT with the ability to hear, see, speak, and create visually compelling images, transforming how people interact with AI in everyday life. About the Role We're looking for Research Engineers and/or Research Scientists to help shape the frontiers of multimodal research. We seek candidates who will excel in fast-paced environments and deliver results with precision and finesse. The ideal candidate will be someone who's passionate about exploring new technologies, and navigating complex and impactful problems. We are looking for people who are passionate about employing scientific methods to study and understand deep learning, neural network architectures, datasets, evaluations, and ML systems. A good candidate will have experience in designing and conducting experiments, navigating complex results, and driving innovations. Both roles are based in San Francisco, CA. We use...

About the Team The Future of Computing is an Applied Research team focused on prototyping and exploring how (consumer) computing might holistically evolve as we advance on our mission of building AGI. About the Role As a Research Engineer on the Future of Computing team, you will work together with both the best research scientists in the world and the greatest design talent of our generation to push the frontier of model capabilities. The ideal candidate will have a research background and experience shipping AI products that involve novel sensor inputs (think IMU data or other time-series data). This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Train and evaluate multimodal SoTA models along axis that are important to our emerging explorations. Run through the necessary walls to take nascent research capabilities and turn them into...

About the Team The Post-Training team is responsible for training and improving pre-trained models to be deployed into ChatGPT, the API, and future products. The team partners closely with research and product teams across the company, and conducts research as a final step to prepare for real world deployment to millions of users, ensuring that our models are safe, efficient, and reliable. About the Role We are seeking a Research Engineer/Scientist to help us deeply understand and improve the capabilities of our models through rigorous evaluation, analysis, and experimentation. In this role, you will lead efforts to correlate evaluation metrics with model behavior, user experience, and real-world performance. Your work will directly inform model development, guide research priorities, and ensure that our evaluation methodologies accurately capture the nuanced capabilities. You will collaborate closely with researchers, data scientists, and engineers to develop robust...

About the team OpenAI's mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world's best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our GTM team is uniquely positioned to help customers realize the transformative potential of advanced AI models for their businesses and end users. As part of the GTM Strategy & Operations team, you'll play a critical role in guiding the GTM strategy and driving the operational efficiency to accomplish this mission. This role serves...

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Startups are creating many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications. The Startup Go To Market team’s mission is to help startups harness the power of AI models to drive these advances. You will lead a team that supports startups building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, providing access to OpenAI teams and expertise to...

Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world!! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role As OpenAI continues to grow, we are looking for experienced, problem-solving engineers to ensure our systems scale. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while also ensuring that they are performant and reliable. You will work in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind. Successful candidates will play a crucial role in ensuring the observability, reliability, scalability, and performance...

Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world!! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role As OpenAI continues to grow, we are looking for experienced, problem-solving engineers to ensure our systems scale. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while also ensuring that they are performant and reliable. You will work in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind. Successful candidates will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems as...

About the Team The Future of Computing is an Applied Research team focused on prototyping and exploring how (consumer) computing might holistically evolve as we advance on our mission of building AGI. About the Role As a Research Engineer on the Future of Computing team, you will work together with both the best research scientists in the world and the greatest design talent of our generation to push the frontier of model capabilities.  The ideal candidate will have a research background and experience shipping AI products with models in compute-constrained environments. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. This role is fully onsite 5 days in office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Train and evaluate multimodal SoTA models along axis that are important to our emerging explorations. Run through the necessary walls to take nascent research capabilities and turn them into capabilities we can build on top...

About the Team The Intelligence and Investigations team seeks to rapidly detect and disrupt abuse in AI technologies to ensure their safe use. We are dedicated to identifying emerging abuse trends, analyzing risks, and working with our internal partners to implement effective mitigation strategies to protect against misuse. Our efforts contribute to OpenAI's overarching goal of developing AI that benefits all of humanity. About the Role As an Intelligence Systems Engineer, you’ll be working on our Intelligence & Investigations team at OpenAI, ensuring the safe and responsible use of AI across our products and services. Our team is at the cutting edge of applying AI to detect, analyze, and disrupt abuse. We are seeking a self-starter generalist engineer to build data intensive, AI-powered applications that enable internal teams to make sense of large, open-domain datasets, fight abuse, and inform high-stakes decisions. You will work with a cross-functional team of...

About the team OpenAI's mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world's best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Startups are creating many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications. The Startup Go To Market team's mission is to help startups harness the power of AI models to drive these advances. You will lead a team that supports startups building effectively with OpenAI's APIs, providing access to OpenAI teams and expertise to...

About the team OpenAI's mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world's best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Revenue Operations team is responsible for equipping and enabling the Go To Market (GTM) as they seek to help customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Customer Success, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our GTM team exists to help customers understand the transformational potential of OpenAI's models-and we believe our own systems should reflect that same intelligence. We're seeking a Systems Architect who is fluent in AI-first design, skilled in prompt...

About the team OpenAI's mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world's best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You'll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline...

About the team OpenAI's mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world's best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Account Director to join our Startups Go To Market team. You will play a critical role in owning relationships with top startup customers and supporting them in building successfully on the OpenAI platform. We believe that many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications...

About the team The Safety Systems team is responsible for various safety work to ensure our best models can be safely deployed to the real world to benefit the society and is at the forefront of OpenAI's mission to build and deploy safe AGI, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering a culture of trust and transparency. The Trustworthy AI team works on action relevant or decision relevant research to ensure we shape A(G)I keeping societal impacts in mind. This includes work on full stack policy problems such as building methods for public inputs into model values and understanding impacts of anthropomorphism of AI. We aim to translate nebulous policy problems to be technically tractable and measurable. We then use this work to inform and build interventions that increase societal readiness for increasingly intelligent systems. Our team also works on external assurances for AI with an aim for increasing independent checks and forming additional layers of validation. About...

About the team OpenAI's mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world's best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You'll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline...

About the Team The Intelligence and Investigations team seeks to rapidly detect and disrupt abuse in AI technologies to ensure their safe use. We are dedicated to identifying emerging abuse trends, analyzing risks, and working with our internal partners to implement effective mitigation strategies to protect against misuse. Our efforts contribute to OpenAI's overarching goal of developing AI that benefits all of humanity. About the Role As an Intelligence Systems Engineer, you'll be focused on advancing our Intelligence & Investigations efforts at OpenAI, ensuring the safe and responsible use of AI across our products and services. We are seeking a self-starter to prototype, develop, and maintain new tools and processes that integrate OpenAI's models and infrastructure to enable internal teams to make sense of large, open-domain datasets, fight abuse, and inform high-stakes decisions. You will be a crucial technical bridge between our data scientists and subject matter...