159 research jobs found in San Francisco, CA

About the Team The Future of Computing Research team is an Applied Research team focused on developing new methods and models to support our vision for the future of computing as we advance forward in our mission of building AGI that benefits all of humanity. About the Role As a Research Engineer/Scientist on the Consumer Products 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: Train and evaluate SoTA models along axis that are important to our vision for future devices. Run through the necessary walls to take nascent research capabilities and turn them into capabilities we can build on top of. Help define how software works for decades to come. You might thrive in...

About the Team The Human Data team at OpenAI is responsible for identifying and mitigating risks in advanced AI systems by designing evaluations, surfacing vulnerabilities, and collaborating closely with researchers to strengthen model reliability and public trust. About the Role As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead initiatives that test the safety and robustness of OpenAI's models through creative experimentation and structured evaluation. You'll coordinate efforts across research and engineering teams to transform ambiguous risks into concrete research programs and influence future model development and deployment. We're looking for people who are technically savvy, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited about shaping the future of safe AI. 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: Lead programs that explore unexpected model...

About the Team The Fleet team builds core components to enable productive research from small to state of the art scale across OpenAI, with the goal of accelerating progress towards AGI. We frequently collaborate with other teams to speed up the development of new state-of-the-art capabilities. About the Role As we scale up with more researchers and engineers joining OpenAI, we seek a pragmatic and passionate engineer with a strong focus on the development experience for both engineers and scientists. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining systems that allow our research + engineering organization to iteratively develop, test, and deploy new features reliably, with high velocity, and with a frictionless and fast development cycle. You will help oversee and drive to the vision of how we should build, test and deploy software. You will drive the design of our continuous integration pipelines, testing infrastructure, training and support around our...

About the Team The Consumer Products Research team is an Applied Research team focused on developing new methods and models to support our vision for the future of computing as we advance forward in our mission of building AGI that benefits all of humanity. About the Role As a Research Engineer/Scientist on the Consumer Products 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: Train and evaluate multimodal SoTA models along axis that are important to our vision for future devices. Develop novel architectures that improve model performance when scaling the models themselves is not an option. Run through the necessary walls to take nascent research capabilities and turn them...

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 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 Research-Hardware Codesign Engineer to operate at the boundary between model research and silicon/system architecture. You'll help shape the numerics, architecture, and technology bets of future OpenAI silicon in collaboration with both Research and Hardware. Your work will include debugging gaps between rooflines and reality, writing quantization kernels, derisking numerics via model...

About the Team The Strategic Deployment team makes frontier models more capable, reliable, and aligned to transform high-impact domains. On one hand, this involves deploying models in real-world, high-stakes settings to drive AI-driven transformation and elicit insights-training data, evaluation methods, and techniques-to shape our frontier model development. On the other hand, we leverage these learnings to build the science and engineering of impactful frontier model deployment. As a key element of this effort, OpenAI for Science aims to harness AI to accelerate the process of scientific research. This involves building models and an AI-powered platform that speeds up discovery and helps researchers everywhere do more, faster. About the Role As a Research Scientist focused on the mathematical sciences, you will help build models, tools, and workflows that move theoretical research-in fields such as mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer...

What Your Job Will Be Like The Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) seeks several students (job title: summer R&D graduate intern) to participate in collaborative research across a wide range of areas in computer science, applied mathematics, discrete mathematics, mathematical modeling, computational science and engineering, and high-performance computing. Possible research areas are broad and include quantum computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced computer architectures, systems software, parallel algorithms, programming languages and paradigms, data sciences, materials, combinatorial mathematics, discrete event simulation, scalable solvers, continuous and discrete optimization, uncertainty quantification, statistics, multiscale methods and mathematics, multiphysics modeling, visualization, meshing, advanced modeling and simulation, human decision modeling, and brain inspired computing. Students are also sought with interests in applying...

About the Team The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models towards their deployment in the real world. OpenAI’s charter calls on us to ensure the benefits of AI are distributed widely. Our Health AI team is focused on enabling universal access to high-quality medical information. We work at the intersection of AI safety research and healthcare applications, aiming to create trustworthy AI models that can assist medical professionals and improve patient outcomes.    About the Role We’re seeking strong researchers who are passionate about advancing AI safety and improving global health outcomes. As a Research Scientist, you will contribute to the development of safe and effective AI models for healthcare applications. You will implement practical and general methods to improve the behavior, knowledge, and reasoning of our models in these settings. This will require research into safety and alignment techniques...

About the Team The Synthetic RL team develops reinforcement learning methods that leverage synthetic data, environments, and feedback to train and evaluate frontier AI models. The team explores approaches such as self-play, simulators, and other synthetic evaluations to push model capability, generalization, and alignment beyond what is possible with the current prevailing methodology. About the Role As a Research Scientist on the Synthetic RL team, you will develop novel reinforcement learning techniques that use synthetic environments and feedback to improve large-scale models. You’ll work closely with other researchers to design experiments, analyze learning dynamics, and translate research insights into training approaches used in production systems. We’re looking for researchers who enjoy working on open-ended problems, value fast iteration, and want their work to directly shape how frontier models are trained. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a...

About the Team The Synthetic RL team develops reinforcement learning methods that leverage synthetic data, environments, and feedback to train and evaluate frontier AI models. The team explores approaches such as self-play, simulators, and other synthetic evaluations to push model capability, generalization, and alignment beyond what is possible with the current prevailing methodology. About the Role As a Research Scientist on the Synthetic RL team, you will develop novel reinforcement learning techniques that use synthetic environments and feedback to improve large-scale models. You'll work closely with other researchers to design experiments, analyze learning dynamics, and translate research insights into training approaches used in production systems. We're looking for researchers who enjoy working on open-ended problems, value fast iteration, and want their work to directly shape how frontier models are trained. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a...

Sigma unlocks the value of data by delivering cloud-scale analytics and business intelligence with the simplicity of a spreadsheet, complete with pivot tables and dashboards. We empower business professionals and data teams to quickly explore, analyze, visualize, and collaborate, leveraging all of their data across the organization. Our internship program at Sigma: Sigma's early career program is the launchpad for the next generation of engineers and innovators. As an Intern at Sigma, you'll work on various Cyber Security domains and learn efficient Security engineering for large scalable systems/environments. Our interns connect directly with our Engineering teams, IT and customer facing teams across the organization everyday. We're looking for students who bring curiosity, a spirit for collaboration, and a desire for securing the world. Sigma is shaping the future of business insights and data visualization. Internship Program Qualifications: Current student : You must...

About Sigma Sigma's vision is to create an insight-driven world where people and organizations are transformed for the better by access to data and the insights it contains. At Sigma, we are building a cloud-native business intelligence platform that allows our customers to tap into their biggest databases and easily build powerful data-driven apps, conduct analysis, and deliver new insights-all without any programming. We are looking for Graduate students who are passionate about making the content in our product interfaces easy to understand and use. You will be part of a talented team of designers on a shared mission to make data analytics and AI-powered apps easily accessible to non-technical customers.This internship will directly be with our product design team and will impact the way users interact with our core product. Come join us in redefining the way our customers access big data and get insights. Please note that in order to be considered for this internship...

About Sigma: Sigma's vision is to create an insight-driven world where people and organizations are transformed for the better by access to data and the insights it contains. At Sigma, we are building a cloud-native business intelligence platform that allows users to tap into their biggest databases hosted in the cloud and easily conduct analysis and graph data -- all without any programming involved. We are looking for Graduate students who are passionate about designing world-class, understandable experiences. You will be an integral part of a talented team of designers, on a shared mission to make data analytics highly usable and easily accessible to non-technical users through consistent and scalable design. Come join us in redefining the way users access their data and build workflows. Our internship program at Sigma: Sigma's early career program is the launchpad for the next generation of innovators. As an Intern at Sigma, you'll work on various production features...

About Sigma Computing: Sigma is a next-generation business intelligence, data exploration, and application-building platform that is changing the analytics landscape. It offers a spreadsheet-like interface that enables all decision makers to securely analyze, and interact with, billions of rows of live data with the unlimited scale and speed of the cloud. With Sigma, everyone can quickly answer their own questions to make and visualize accurate, data-driven decisions. Our internship program at Sigma: Sigma's early career program is the launchpad for the next generation of engineers and innovators. As an Intern at Sigma, you'll work on various production features and learn efficient engineering for large scalable systems. Our interns work directly with our engineers, product leaders, and designers across the organization everyday. We're looking for students who bring curiosity, a spirit for collaboration, and a desire for shaping the future of business insights and data...

About the team The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. As the leader of our Solutions Architects in the Digital Native segment, you'll help technology and software companies transform their business through solutions such as customer service, automated content generation, and novel applications that make use of our newest, most exciting models. About the role We are seeking a leader to ensure the technical success of our most strategic technology and software customers in the Americas. In this role, you will manage the entire implementation journey, ensuring seamless platform integration. As the voice of our customers, you will align technical teams to...

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 As the Engineering Manager for Platform FDE, you will lead a small team that acts as a multiplier for the broader FDE org. Your mandate is to increase the rate at which customer-grounded ideas become durable, generalizable platform bets, by providing hands-on...

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. The OpenAI Education team partners with educators, educational institutions, and countries to shape how AI can be used to advance learning, accelerate research, and enable the next generation to build the skills and capabilities needed for a rapidly changing world. We aim to deliver measurable gains in cognition and achievement, partnering closely with educators, students, and adult learners to develop products and programs that are safe, trusted, and impactful. About the Role As Head of Education, Enterprise, you will own and scale OpenAI's Enterprise Education vertical. You will set the enterprise strategy with a cross-functional team, define the products and solutions we bring to market, and work directly with...

About the Team OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals from diverse legal fields-technology, AI, infrastructure, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation-who collaborate closely with colleagues across the company. If you are passionate about being a technology lawyer working on cutting-edge challenges, you'll thrive here. About the Role We're seeking a senior lawyer to participate in commercial legal strategy and execution across OpenAI's fast-growing infrastructure portfolio. This is a cross-functional role that will partner closely with procurement, supply chain, partnerships, finance, and product teams to structure, negotiate, and manage the transactions that will support OpenAI's long-term infrastructure ambitions. We're looking for an experienced infrastructure transactions lawyer who thrives in ambiguity and wants to help...

About the Team OpenAI's Strategic Finance organization provides financial insights and guidance to support the company's long-term strategy and ambitious growth. We partner across Product, Partnerships, Engineering, and GTM to allocate resources to the highest-impact opportunities while protecting sustainable unit economics. The Applications Technology Strategic Finance team partners closely with Product to scale core offerings and bring new products to market. We lead revenue forecasting and performance management across the product portfolio, including economic margins, pricing, and partnership deal pricing and structuring. About the Role We are hiring a Strategic Finance Partnerships lead to drive strategic decision-making across OpenAI's growth and media partnership portfolio. This role will be a critical finance partner to Partnerships deal leads and Product owners, responsible for evaluating, pricing, and structuring partnerships, and translating partner...

About the Team The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes. About the Role We are hiring a Senior Finance Leader to own the financial stewardship of OpenAI's Robotics hardware portfolio, serving as the financial lead for one of the company's most capital intensive and strategically critical bets. This role sits at the center of Robotics leadership and OpenAI Finance, acting as the financial owner and decision partner for Robotics Engineering, Research, Product, and Operations. This role will serve as the financial authority for Robotics, with ownership of long-range planning, capital strategy, investment economics, and executive decision support across the full Robotics portfolio. You will set the financial frame for highly technical roadmaps, enabling leadership to make informed tradeoffs...