159 research jobs found in San Francisco, CA

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team’s ethos is to support OpenAI's mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI. About the Role OpenAI is seeking an experienced communications professional to join our Platform & Research Communications team. This role will work closely with the Research Communications Lead and in partnership with applied and engineering teams to shape how OpenAI’s scientific work is understood by researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the broader public. This position is responsible for developing and executing external communications strategies around OpenAI’s research—from foundational model advances to applied science collaborations—ensuring accuracy, nuance, and alignment with OpenAI’s long-term goals. The ideal candidate brings strong science or technical...

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role As a SLAM / Multi-View Geometry Engineer on the Robotics team, you will develop systems that enable robots to perceive, track, and reconstruct the world in 3D from multi-camera and multimodal sensor data. You will work on real-time and offline SLAM pipelines used during teleoperation and robot data collection, as well as scalable systems for reconstructing and tracking 3D structure from large datasets. We’re looking for people who combine strong fundamentals in computer vision with practical experience building robust perception systems. The...

About the Team OpenAI for Science is building the next great scientific instrument: an AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery. We aim to prove that OpenAI's frontier models can do real science-and help researchers everywhere do more, faster. About the Role As a Research Engineer, you will build AI systems that enable previously impossible capabilities or achieve unprecedented levels of performance. You'll work at the intersection of engineering and research, designing, implementing, and improving large-scale machine learning systems while contributing to the science behind the algorithms themselves. We're looking for people with strong engineering fundamentals who enjoy writing high-quality ML code, are comfortable working at massive scale, and are excited about OpenAI's approach to research. As deep learning systems continue to scale, engineering excellence will play a critical role in driving the next major advances in AI. This role is based in San...

About the Team The Future of Computing Research team is an Applied Research team within 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 Research Engineer/Scientist 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: 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...

About the Team The Future of Computing Research team is an applied research team within the Consumer Devices group focused on developing new methods, models, and evaluation frameworks that support our vision for the future of computing. We work at the frontier of multimodal AI, helping turn emerging model capabilities into product experiences that are useful, delightful, and worthy of long-term trust. Our work explores a new class of AI systems that can learn over time, adapt to individuals, and support people in the flow of daily life. This includes long-term memory, user modeling, and personalization systems that are aligned not just with immediate satisfaction, but with a person's broader goals, values, and well-being. We work closely across research, engineering, design, product, and safety to define what it means to build AI systems that know you over time, act at the right moment, and help in ways that are context-aware, respectful, and demonstrably beneficial. About...

About the Team The Future of Computing Research team is an Applied Research team within the Consumer Devices group 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 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: 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...

About the Team OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation. About the Role As a member of our AI Product Counsel team focusing on research, you will assist with legal initiatives related to our advanced AI models and technologies. You'll partner closely with researchers and engineers to help them plan, develop, and align models such as GPT-5, as well as our future research roadmap. This is a unique opportunity to engage directly with the forefront of the legal and AI fields. This role reports to our lead counsel for AI Research. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer...

About the Team The Research team at OpenAI advances the frontier of artificial intelligence by developing new models, algorithms, and learning paradigms that push toward safe and beneficial AGI. Our researchers work across a wide range of domains including multimodal learning, reasoning, robotics, alignment, and large-scale foundation models, collaborating closely with engineering and product teams to translate research breakthroughs into real-world impact. About the Role As a Research Scientist at OpenAI, you will develop novel machine learning methods and contribute to advancing the research agenda of the team you join. You will work on discovering simple, scalable, and generalizable ideas that improve model capabilities and help shape a unified long-term research vision across the organization. We're looking for people who are excited to pursue ambitious research problems, operate independently, and collaborate deeply with interdisciplinary teams to bring cutting-edge...

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 Sandia Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs: Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide Extraordinary co-workers Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world Career advancement and enrichment opportunities Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home) Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance* World-changing technologies....

About Sandia Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs: Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide Extraordinary co-workers Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world Career advancement and enrichment opportunities Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home) Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance* World-changing technologies....

About Sandia Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs: Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide Extraordinary co-workers Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world Career advancement and enrichment opportunities Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home) Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance* World-changing technologies....

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role We are looking for customer-focused software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. As an FDSWE, you will work with our customers and OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that solve their most difficult problems. You will design abstractions to solve customer problems, and then use them to scale our speed and quality of delivery across all Forward Deployed engagements. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architects, and Customer Success Managers who work on the same account. You will also work with our Research and Applied Product and Engineering teams to provide insightful customer feedback....

About the Team At OpenAI, our Compliance team is dedicated to fostering a culture of integrity and adherence to regulatory and legal requirements. We collaborate closely with Legal, Security, People, Finance, and operational teams to ensure our compliance programs support the organization’s mission while mitigating risk in a rapidly evolving AI landscape. About the Role The Compliance Program Manager will play a key role in building and scaling OpenAI’s compliance program—translating requirements into practical processes, driving program execution, and improving how we detect, assess, and mitigate compliance risk. You’ll help run the day-to-day operational backbone of the program (e.g., disclosures, training, investigations tracking, controls, and reporting) and partner cross-functionally to keep the program effective as the company grows. This role represents an exciting opportunity to innovate compliance operations using the latest AI technology. This role reports to the...

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid: 4 days onsite/week). Relocation assistance available. About the Team: We build foundational platform software that enables reliable, secure, and performant products. The team works across system layers and partners closely with adjacent engineering groups to deliver robust capabilities from concept through launch. About the Role: We’re seeking a Systems Software Engineer to design, implement, and debug core platform components and the pipelines that build and update system images. You’ll work across operating system layers, focusing on performance, security, and deep system debugging to ship production‑grade systems. In this role, you will: Design, implement, and debug system‑level components and services across kernel and user space. Configure and maintain OS platform services (init, services, networking, security policies) and related tooling. Build and operate image and update pipelines, ensuring reliability,...

About the Team The B2B Marketing team contributes to OpenAI’s broader mission of ensuring responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. We are responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive awareness, engagement, and usage for OpenAI’s products and platform across SMB, enterprise, and developer audiences. We take a customer- and data-driven approach to understanding how organizations discover, evaluate, and adopt AI. We partner closely with Sales, Revenue Operations, Product Marketing, Growth, Research, Communications, and Design to create cohesive experiences that help customers move from initial interest to successful deployment and long-term value. About the Role We’re looking for a Head of Demand Generation to build and lead OpenAI’s enterprise demand generation function. This role will own the pipeline journey from lead through early-stage qualified opportunities, with a primary focus on enterprise buyers including IT leaders,...

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 are looking for an experienced Mechanical Engineer with 7+ years of experience in design of IT hardware from chip/package to system levels. You’ll work alongside experts in thermal, mechanical, electrical, software, and systems engineering to support the design, analysis, and validation of mechanical and thermal systems that ensure the reliability, efficiency, and longevity of mission-critical...

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. The API organization is one of the highest-leverage ways we do that: we put frontier intelligence in the hands of builders who turn it into products, businesses, and services that reach people everywhere. We build the infrastructure and developer platform that makes that possible—so developers can reliably bring powerful AI into the real world, operate it safely at scale, and keep pushing what’s possible. When we do our job well, we don’t just ship an API. We enable thousands of teams to create new capabilities for millions of end users, accelerating progress across industries and communities. About the Role As a Data Scientist on the API team, you’ll build the measurement systems that make our platform legible and improveable. You’ll define the metrics that matter, identify and quantify developer friction, evaluate launches and platform changes, and translate data into product decisions that...

About the Team The Vendor Security team sits at the core of our mission to ensure our technology benefits humanity safely and securely. We provide security assurances and robust compliance frameworks for our technology, people, and products. Our mission is to build trust with the world in our products and company. Our work is technical yet highly operational, strategically aligning with security and engineering teams to navigate and mitigate risks proactively. We prioritize impact, enable innovation, and foster a culture of continuous compliance and security awareness. About the Role As a Program Manager within the Vendor Security team, you will play a crucial role in protecting our organization against external risks posed by suppliers, vendors, partners, and hardware manufacturers. Your responsibilities will include conducting comprehensive security assessments, building a program to manage global supply chain and vendor risks, and driving security initiatives across all...

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...