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Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing
OpenAI
The Human Flourishing team is dedicated to ensuring AI systems understand and advance human flourishing, aligning AI capabilities with human values and long-term goals. This role involves measuring and improving models' understanding of human values, supporting user agency, and helping users achieve their long-term objectives. The team also focuses on scaling tangible impact in domains like education and mental health, working across research, product, and partnerships to benefit a large user base. Recent work includes Beneficial RL and the MentalHealthBench benchmark.
$380k - $500k
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF
OpenAI
OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems, operating at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. As a Forward Deployed Engineer for AI Infra, you will lead complex deployments of frontier models in production, embedding with customers where model performance and urgent delivery are critical. You will work directly with customer engineers, researchers, and product engineers on optimization problems across semiconductors and AI infrastructure, writing and debugging software, running experiments, and improving tools. Your role involves defining problems, structuring delivery, and shipping fast, with a focus on inference performance and chip-design optimization, ultimately contributing improvements to OpenAI's platform.
$185k - $300k
Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives
OpenAI
The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for the safe and effective deployment of generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. As an Applied AI Engineer in the Digital Native segment, you will work with industry-leading technology companies to bring new AI capabilities into their products. You will partner directly with experienced product and engineering teams to turn frontier model capabilities into new features and agentic experiences, combining rapid experimentation with the demands of established products. This role involves deep technical judgment, hands-on engineering, and customer leadership to take ambitious ideas from use-case selection through production launch and scale, influencing how OpenAI's products evolve.
Principal Software Engineer, ChatGPT Education and Learning
OpenAI
The ChatGPT Learning team is building the next generation of learning experiences within ChatGPT, aiming to support sustained learning and progress beyond individual questions. This role involves leading the design and development of products that leverage AI to make powerful learning tools more accessible, helping millions of users understand the world, develop skills, and pursue their goals. The work combines product engineering, design, AI research, and education to serve learners globally. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be hands-on across the full stack, building polished interfaces and scalable backend services, and driving product and design decisions with cross-functional partners to translate ambiguous opportunities into clear direction and successful product launches.
$459k - $536k
Researcher, Misalignment Monitoring Lead
OpenAI
OpenAI's Safety Research organization is seeking a senior researcher to lead technical work on misalignment monitoring for frontier AI systems. This role involves developing methods to evaluate AI monitors, understanding their limitations, and improving our ability to reliably detect and stop concerning model behavior. You will set research priorities, design rigorous evaluations, investigate monitoring failures, and develop approaches for stress-testing and improving monitoring systems, with a key focus on understanding monitor limitations as models evolve. The position combines research leadership with hands-on technical execution, translating research findings into practical improvements for OpenAI's safety systems.
$380k - $500k
Machine Learning Data Scientist - Consumer Forecasting
OpenAI
OpenAI is seeking a senior Machine Learning Data Scientist to lead its forecasting initiatives within the Strategic Finance team. This is a founding role for the Forecasting pillar, responsible for building and scaling robust, interpretable, and production-ready forecasting systems. The models developed will be crucial for predicting key business metrics like daily/weekly active users, revenue, lifetime value, compute consumption, and profitability, directly influencing critical business decisions and company strategy. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, product intuition, and business acumen, involving close collaboration with product managers, researchers, engineers, and finance leaders to operationalize insights and build foundational forecasting capabilities.
$347k - $445k
Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Search - Knowledge Graphs
OpenAI
The Foundations Research team is focused on high-impact, forward-looking AI research, particularly for future frontier models. Within this team, the Search group is developing agentic search capabilities by co-designing model-system interfaces with the core search stack, including serving, indexing, and retrieval. We build and research large-scale systems to transform and index vast amounts of data, enabling AI models to effectively find and reason over information. This role involves researching and developing methods for extracting and utilizing semi-structured knowledge graphs from heterogeneous web content. The core objective is to make this information more accessible and useful for AI models, addressing key questions about the optimal structure for information retrieval, scalable extraction techniques, and how to measure and improve model reasoning capabilities. You will collaborate across research, data, and systems to advance how knowledge is extracted, organized, and retrieved, with potential for scientific publication and impact across OpenAI products.
$380k - $850k
Agent Post-Training, Computer Use Research
OpenAI
The Agent Post-Training team at OpenAI is responsible for developing the frontier agents that are shipped to users. This involves training models for products like Codex and ChatGPT, focusing on creating persistent, proactive intelligence that can operate computers, collaborate with humans and other agents, and expand user capabilities. The team defines the next generation of agent abilities, builds the training signals, and runs experiments to realize these advancements. The role specifically focuses on teaching models to operate computers, including navigating browsers and desktops, using tools, reasoning through complex workflows, and completing long-horizon tasks reliably. This position is at the intersection of frontier model training, product behavior, evaluation, and systems engineering, directly influencing the computer-use capabilities of OpenAI's future agents.
$380k - $500k
Software Engineer, CI/CD & ML Infrastructure
OpenAI
OpenAI's Hardware organization is developing next-generation AI-native silicon and integrated systems to power frontier models. This role focuses on defining and building the CI/CD systems essential for qualifying these advanced models and the software stack that runs on OpenAI's custom AI accelerators. The work ensures that correctness, performance, and stability are measurable for every code change, from initial commits to production releases. This position involves model workloads, accelerator software, systems infrastructure, and enhancing developer productivity by establishing scalable CI/CD and GitOps practices, designing robust regression and benchmarking pipelines, and collaborating with various engineering teams to optimize feedback loops.
$318k - $485k
Software Engineer, Full Stack — Dots
OpenAI
Dots is building personal AI agents designed to help users make progress on their goals, even when they are not actively using tools like ChatGPT. These agents are capable of learning user preferences, maintaining context across interactions, operating across different applications, and utilizing cloud computing resources to perform tasks. The team combines product engineering, design, and research to transform advanced AI model capabilities into practical, everyday user experiences. Engineers on this team play a crucial role in shaping both the product itself and the underlying systems, from initial prototyping through to launch and ongoing iteration. This role focuses on building the product experiences for Dots, from the user interface to the backend services that power them, helping to define how users delegate tasks to their personal agents, monitor progress, and collaborate with them over time. It involves hands-on product development and the systems engineering required to ensure persistent, asynchronous agent experiences are reliable.
$347k - $385k
Applied AI Engineer, Startups
OpenAI
We are seeking a technically proficient, business-minded Applied AI Engineer to help push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers. You'll work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world, guiding them through ideation, development, delivery, and scaling to accelerate and maximize the value of what they build on our platform. You will have the opportunity to work on the most novel and creative use cases being built on our API, serving as a critical partner in collecting and delivering high-fidelity product and model feedback internally. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams.
Partner Applied AI Engineer - LATAM
OpenAI
We are seeking a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to join our founding Partner Applied AI Engineer team. You will own the technical engagement with systems integrators and their strategic customers, ensuring they achieve tangible business value with Generative AI. Your role involves identifying high-value use cases, providing technical enablement through AI solution implementation, and accelerating partners' time to unlock distribution and adoption. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, reporting to the Head of Solutions Architecture.
Machine Learning Engineer, Implicit Signals
OpenAI
We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to develop and productionize new classification and evaluation capabilities. This role involves translating open-ended questions about model behavior into well-defined ML problems, building effective methods, and rigorously assessing their reliability. You will own classifiers throughout their lifecycle, from supervised fine-tuning and distillation to evaluation, deployment, and production inference. Collaborating closely with researchers to identify valuable problems and with software engineers to scale promising approaches will be key to success.
$381k - $510k
Software Engineer, API Agents
OpenAI
API Agents is building the shared agent harness, tools, and infrastructure that turn OpenAI’s frontier models into systems capable of reliably completing real work. This role focuses on building the core systems behind the next generation of agents, designing reliable services and abstractions that help agents find context, use tools, retain knowledge, coordinate workflows, and take action safely. The position combines deep backend and infrastructure work with strong product judgment, offering opportunities to work across agent runtimes, orchestration, search, execution environments, identity, observability, and evaluations. Success in this role hinges on strong backend fundamentals, high agency, and the ability to translate fast-moving research into dependable production primitives.
$266k - $445k
Backend Software Engineer, Cooperative AI (Evals)
OpenAI
We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer with experience in ML/LLM-heavy domains to design and build an "evals" infrastructure. This role is critical for measuring the quality of OpenAI's support automation and involves building robust systems and backend services that form the foundation for knowledge creation, access, and application across OpenAI. You will collaborate closely with Data Science and Research partners to design and build evaluations at scale, focusing on creating reliable, reproducible, and extendable eval pipelines and infrastructure for continuous monitoring.
$266k - $445k
Software Engineer, Cooperative AI
OpenAI
The Cooperative AI team is building an AI-powered knowledge system that evolves and learns alongside OpenAI's products, systems, and customers. This team leverages state-of-the-art models and technologies to automate robust operations, supporting both internal and external customers globally. The work focuses on proving impact through internal use cases, particularly in knowledge systems, automation systems, and automated agent systems, before scaling them. We are looking for Software Engineers passionate about blending production-ready platform architecture with new technologies and paradigms. You will push the boundaries of OpenAI's newest technologies to enable functional and delightful interactions and automations, with a focus on foundational details like data models, architecture, and security to enable great products.
$266k - $445k
Software Engineer, OpenAI Presence
OpenAI
OpenAI Presence is building a platform for reliable AI agents designed to handle high-volume business workflows in areas like customer support, sales, and insurance claims. The platform supports the entire agent development lifecycle, including evaluation, deployment, and improvement based on real interactions. It also integrates agents with company systems and supports voice and chat experiences, incorporating policies, guardrails, and human handoffs to ensure business control. We are seeking an engineer to help establish the foundational elements of Presence and develop systems that ensure AI agents are dependable in everyday business operations. This role involves setting the platform's technical direction while remaining hands-on with coding, taking architectural concepts from initial decisions through to scalable, reliable systems.
$230k - $385k
Software Engineer, Implicit Signals
OpenAI
We are seeking a software engineer to build and evolve our classification and evaluation platform. You will develop services, online and offline pipelines, and tools that help researchers and data scientists turn an idea into a working measurement and iterate on it quickly. This role combines software and data engineering with hands-on production ownership. You will shape the architecture, deliver new capabilities, improve inference efficiency, and keep the system dependable as workloads and requirements evolve. Strong candidates will bring deep software engineering expertise and an interest in building a technical product in close partnership with its users.
$347k - $445k
Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives
OpenAI
The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for the safe and effective deployment of generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. As an Applied AI Engineer, you will work with industry-leading technology companies to integrate new AI capabilities into their products. This role involves partnering directly with experienced product and engineering teams to transform frontier model capabilities into new features and agentic experiences, combining rapid experimentation with the demands of established products. You will take ambitious ideas from use-case selection and architecture through prototyping, evaluation, production launch, and scale, writing and debugging code, building evaluation systems, and resolving complex integrations. Success is measured by production systems, sustained adoption, and meaningful customer impact.
$251k - $278k
AI Support Engineer - Toronto (Weekend Shift)
OpenAI
OpenAI is seeking dedicated, experienced, and curious individuals to join its User Operations team as an AI Support Engineer. This role is crucial in supporting customers' adoption of AI and ensuring an exceptional product experience. You will work directly with customers through support tickets and live calls, troubleshooting high-impact issues and resolving novel, often ambiguous technical problems in a fast-paced environment. Your work will directly support mission-critical systems being built on OpenAI's platform, serving as a critical line of defense for customers operating at massive scale. Beyond resolving technical issues, you will help define world-class support in an AGI-driven future, partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations to improve systems, reduce bugs, and elevate the customer experience by leveraging automation, agents, and AI technology.
