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We are seeking a researcher focused on embedding retrieval efforts to join our Foundations Research team. This team works on high-risk, high-reward ideas that could shape the future of AI, focusing on advancing the science and data for frontier models. You will collaborate with world-class research scientists and engineers to develop foundational technology enabling models to retrieve and condition on the right information at the right time. This includes designing new embedding training objectives, scalable vector store architectures, and dynamic indexing methods. Your work will support retrieval across many OpenAI products and internal research efforts, with opportunities for scientific publication and deep technical impact.

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OpenAI is seeking a researcher passionate about understanding deep networks, with a strong background in engineering, quantitative reasoning, and the research process. You will develop and carry out a research plan in mechanistic interpretability, in close collaboration with a highly motivated team. You will play a critical role in helping OpenAI ensure future models remain safe even as they grow in capability. This will make a significant impact on our goal of building and deploying safe AGI.

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The Agent Infrastructure team at OpenAI is building systems to enable the training and deployment of highly useful AI agents. This role involves working closely with research and product teams to scale systems for training agentic models and to build the platform for launching new agents to millions of users. You will contribute to a novel container orchestration platform, develop and maintain APIs for agentic infrastructure, and use Terraform for infrastructure management. The ideal candidate has deep experience in large-scale machine learning infrastructure, a knack for performance optimization, and expertise in virtualization and containerization technologies.

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OpenAI's Inference team is expanding into multimodal inference, building the infrastructure needed to serve models that handle image, audio, and other non-text modalities. These workloads are inherently more heterogeneous and experimental, involving diverse model sizes and interactions, more complex input/output formats, and tighter coordination with product and research. We are looking for a software engineer to help us serve OpenAI’s multimodal models at scale. You’ll be part of a small team responsible for building reliable, high-performance infrastructure for serving real-time audio, image, and other MM workloads in production. This work is inherently cross-functional: you’ll collaborate directly with researchers training these models and with product teams defining new modalities of interaction. You'll build and optimize the systems that let users generate speech, understand images, and interact with models in ways far beyond text.

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OpenAI's Training team is responsible for producing the large language models that power our research and products, bringing us closer to AGI. This involves deep research into improving current architectures, datasets, and optimization techniques, alongside long-term bets on future model efficiency and capability. As a member of the architecture team, you will push the frontier of architecture development for OpenAI's flagship models, enhancing intelligence, efficiency, and adding new capabilities. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of LLM architectures, model inference, and a hands-on empirical approach, comfortable with creative breakthroughs, strengthening baselines, designing evaluations, debugging regressions, and tracking bottlenecks.

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We are seeking a GPU Inference Engineer to enhance model serving efficiency for our Robotics research. This high-impact role involves driving initiatives to optimize inference performance and scalability, as well as assisting researchers in developing inference-friendly models. This position is crucial for scaling the team's goals, enabling leadership to focus on higher-leverage initiatives by building a stronger technical foundation.

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Online Data builds and operates Habitat, a core online database platform for OpenAI's products. This system handles high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads across regions, with end-to-end ownership of provisioning, developer experience, APIs, scaling, reliability, data movement, privacy enforcement, and future storage backends. The role involves designing and building core abstractions, owning major surface areas, improving performance and cost efficiency, and building developer-first tooling. You will collaborate closely with internal teams, participate in on-call rotations, and focus on solving complex distributed systems problems at massive scale.

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OpenAI is seeking a Research Engineer for Frontier Evals & Environments to help build north star model environments that drive progress towards safe AGI/ASI. This role will directly guide the research programs of ambitious training runs, with past open-sourced evaluations including GDPval, SWE-bench Verified, MLE-bench, PaperBench, and SWE-Lancer. You will work with researchers, engineers, product teams, infrastructure teams, and safety/alignment partners to define model run objectives, measure outcomes, and ship improvements into widely used products. This is a high-agency role for individuals passionate about seeing their work directly impact frontier models and steering them towards beneficial outcomes.

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The Engineering Acceleration team designs, builds, and maintains the foundational systems that engineers use to build ChatGPT and the API. This is a fast-growing team where you will have the opportunity to own and define the strategy, vision, and plan for increasing developer productivity. You will drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output. You will also use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry, working closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs.

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At OpenAI, we are seeking a software engineer to help build out our trust and safety capabilities, ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment. In this role, you will work with our engineering team to design and implement systems that detect and prevent abuse, promote user safety, and reduce risk across our platform. You will be at the forefront of our efforts to ensure that the immense potential of AI is harnessed in a responsible and sustainable manner.

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OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher passionate about AI safety to join the Safety Oversight Research team. This role will be instrumental in setting research directions to ensure safe AGI and will focus on identifying and mitigating misuse and misalignment in AI systems. You will play a critical part in defining the future of safe AI systems at OpenAI, significantly impacting our mission to build and deploy safe AGI. The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring our advanced models can be safely deployed for societal benefit, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering trust and transparency.

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As a Data Scientist on the Applied Product team, you will contribute to a data-driven product development culture for consumer and enterprise products at OpenAI. This is critical as our products reach millions of users and businesses worldwide. We are focused on aligning both research and product development to drive measurable impact for these individuals and organizations alike. You should expect to define our north-star metrics, design A/B tests, and establish source-of-truth dashboards that the entire company can use to answer their own product questions. Most importantly, you should expect to be a core member of the product development team.

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We are seeking a Senior Support Engineer to collaborate directly with our strategic enterprise accounts and product teams, helping solve some of the most difficult problems faced by our Customers. You will be part of the best technical troubleshooting team at OpenAI, and our Customers and Engineering teams will look to you for technical guidance in addressing the most technically difficult issues in our environment. As a Senior Support Engineer, you will design and run operational processes to monitor our top strategic customers and a 24x7 response team. You’ll work closely with our Infrastructure and Engineering teams to deliver the best possible experience to customers at scale. Working directly with our most strategic Customers, you will be crucial to the success of the most innovative, disruptive, and high-scale AI solutions being built with the OpenAI API platform. The nature of this role will be low volume, high difficulty.

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The Applied Foundations team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that our cutting-edge technology is not only revolutionary but also secure from a myriad of adversarial threats, striving to maintain the integrity of our platforms as they scale. This role is crucial for maintaining the trustworthiness of our platforms by developing robust defenses against a spectrum of adversarial behaviors that threaten our ecosystem. You will be pivotal in designing and implementing systems that detect and prevent abuse, promote user safety, and reduce risk across our platform, ensuring that the immense potential of AI is harnessed in a responsible and sustainable manner.

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We are seeking an experienced Research Engineer to focus on retrieval and search challenges across our API and ChatGPT. As AI has advanced, retrieval and search have become critical use cases, and we are committed to providing robust search-based product experiences for our users. You will be instrumental in our company-wide retrieval and search initiatives, with your contributions impacting millions of end users.

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OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher passionate about AI safety to set research directions and conduct projects aimed at making AI systems safer, more aligned, and robust against adversarial or malicious use cases. This role is critical in shaping the future of safe AI systems at OpenAI and significantly impacting the mission to build and deploy safe AGI. The Safety Systems team focuses on ensuring AI models can be safely deployed to benefit society, advancing capabilities for robust and safe AI behavior, and addressing challenges as AI becomes more powerful and widely used.