Research Engineer, AI for Science

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Research

Compensation

• $295K – $445K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

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 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:

• Design, implement, and improve large-scale distributed machine learning systems

• Write robust, high-quality machine learning code and contribute to performance-critical components

• Collaborate closely with researchers to translate ideas into scalable, production-ready systems

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have strong programming skills and enjoy building reliable, high-quality systems

• Are comfortable working in large distributed systems and at significant computational scale

• Are excited about OpenAI’s research direction and motivated by the real-world impact of AI

• Nice to have:

• Interest in using AI to accelerate scientific discovery, improve experimental design, or enable new forms of scientific insight

• Experience building high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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