186 research jobs found in San Francisco, CA

About the Team The retrieval team within Agents & Pre-training develops retrieval technology to power ChatGPT and new product experiences built on OpenAI's models. About the Role We are seeking a research tech lead / manager (TLM) for the retrieval team to lead a team of researchers and research engineers. The focus of this team is to develop technology that allows our models to efficiently and accurately access information from private knowledge sources. This technology will be used in many frontier models and applications across our Research organization. This is not just a RAG implementation role. Our team's goal is to rethink the way retrieval can work for agentic AI systems from first principles. 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: Tech lead and manage a team of researchers and research engineers Collaborate closely with...

About the Team The Perception team is responsible for the "perception" capabilities in all flagship models like GPT-4o, enabling them to understand the world beyond text inputs and to predict or act with human-level accuracy. Our goal is to advance the frontier of perception through rigorous scientific research and high-performance engineering, accelerating the development of safe and beneficial AGI. About the Role We're looking for Research Engineers and/or Research Scientists to help shape the frontiers of multimodal research. For Research Engineers, we are seeking 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, navigating complex and impactful problems, and building high-performance infrastructures. For Research Scientists, we are looking for people who are passionate about employing scientific methods to study and understand deep...

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 Our mission is to expand the capabilities of foundational models to support general-purpose robotics in dynamic, real-world environments, ensuring reliable and safe operation. These capabilities include, but are not limited to, action generation, motion planning, world modeling, and real-time communication through voice and emotions. We work across the entire robotics stack, integrating cutting-edge hardware, sensors, end-effectors, and models to explore a diverse range of robotic form factors. Our goal is to develop models that provide state-of-the-art intelligence combined with seamless physical skills under the practical constraints of robotic platforms. About the Role As a research engineer for our robotics initiative, you will develop foundational models, and shape the direction of our early-stage robotics efforts at OpenAI. Your expertise will be instrumental in defining our strategy and establishing a strong foundation for future advancements. This...

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 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 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 Our team builds the core infrastructure and tools that transform a large pre-trained model into a cutting-edge, user-friendly chatbot. By accelerating research and development, our infrastructure enables rapid improvements and frequent model releases. We collaborate closely with research teams within the post-training team and across the company, creating systems for training, evaluation, data management, and model behavior that push the boundaries of what's possible with ChatGPT. About the Role We are seeking engineers to build cutting-edge infrastructure and user-friendly tools that are foundational to the post-training phase of ChatGPT. You will work across the entire technology stack, including working on optimizing low level ML systems, job orchestration, data and eval management, etc. The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical background in areas such as data technologies, distributed systems, and reliable software development, with deep expertise...

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. We prioritize safety throughout the development process to ensure that our most advanced models can be safely deployed in real-world applications, ultimately benefiting society. This focus on safety is central to OpenAI's mission of building and deploying safe AGI, reinforcing our dedication to AI safety and promoting a culture of trust and transparency. About the Role We are seeking a research engineer to pioneer innovative techniques that redefine safety, enhancing the comprehension and capabilities of our state-of-the-art multimodal foundation models. In this role, you will conduct rigorous safety assessments and develop methods, such as safety reward models and multimodal classifiers, to ensure our models are intrinsically compliant...

About the Team The ChatGPT RLHF team is a specialized subteam within the Post-Training organization, focused on aligning ChatGPT models with user needs through Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) and related approaches. Our mission is to make ChatGPT more helpful and personalized for users, creating a better experience by learning from large-scale feedback. The team develops the science of reward modeling, scales feedback-driven training, and ensures our models deliver both correctness and nuanced, human-preferred behavior. We collaborate closely with research, product, and applied teams to deliver measurable improvements in model quality and user experience. Our work directly impacts millions of users globally and contributes to OpenAI's mission of broadly distributing safe AI. About the Role As a Research Engineer or Scientist on the ChatGPT RLHF team, you will contribute to the development of advanced reward models and RL techniques to align ChatGPT models...

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay Range $168,780- $214,032 Annually for the SES.3 level $202,500 - $256,824 Annually for the SES.4level This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications,...

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay Range $168,780 - $214,032 annually Job Description The Biosciences and Biotechnology Division within the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate LLNL is seeking to fill a position for a dedicated and hardworking Research Scientist with a background in cell biology with a cardiac focus, with demonstrated experience in advanced cellular and tissue models, toxicology, electrocardiography and in vivo assessments....

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay Range $168,780 - $214,032 annually Job Description The Biosciences and Biotechnology Division within the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate LLNL is seeking to fill a position for a dedicated and hardworking Research Scientist with a background in cell biology with a cardiac focus, with demonstrated experience in advanced cellular and tissue models, toxicology, electrocardiography and in vivo...

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay Range $9,907 monthly Job Description Note: This is a two-year Postdoctoral appointment with the possibility of extension to a maximum of three years. We have an opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct research in the areas of computational systems biology. This research will involve development and use of detailed system-level models of metabolism in microbial communities and development of novel...

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay Range $117,900 - $135,060 Annually This is the lowest to highest salary in good faith we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. Pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority,...

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay Range $118,068 annually This position is under a step structure. Please note that the step is determined by your academic level. Transcripts are required. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors...

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay Range $9,907 monthly Job Description Note: This is a two-year Postdoctoral appointment with the possibility of extension to a maximum of three years. We have an opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct research in the areas of computational systems biology. This research will involve development and use of detailed system-level models of metabolism in microbial communities and development of novel...

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay Range $118,884 Annually Job Description We have an opening for a Modeling & Simulation Software Developer - Postdoctoral Researcher who will work with a team of scientists to develop, run, and study results from large parallel simulations related to the national defense. This position may offer a hybrid schedule, which includes the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week, after a...

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay $118,884 Annually Job Description NOTE: This is a two-year Postdoctoral appointment with the possibility of extension to a maximum of three years. We are seeking a dedicated and hardworking postdoctoral researcher to conduct research in the field of synthetic biology for biocontainment of genetically modified microorganisms. You will actively participate in research to develop biocontainment circuits in...

Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory's mission. Pay Range $117,900 - $135,060 Annually This is the lowest to highest salary in good faith we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. Pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority,...