Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments - Finance · OpenAI

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:37:37 GMT
Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco · $205K – $380K • Offers Equity · hybrid

Job Posting

Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments - Finance

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Research

Compensation

$205K – $380K • 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

The Frontier Evals team builds north star model evaluations to drive progress towards safe AGI/ASI. This team builds ambitious evaluations to measure and steer our models, and creates self-improvement loops to steer our training, safety, and launch decisions. Some of the team's open-sourced evaluations include SWE-bench Verified, MLE-bench, PaperBench, and SWE-Lancer, and the team built and ran frontier evaluations for GPT4o, o1, o3, GPT 4.5, ChatGPT Agent, and GPT5. If you are interested in feeling firsthand the fast progress of our models, and steering them towards good, this is the team for you.

About you

We seek exceptional research engineers that can push the boundaries of our frontier models in the finance domain. We are looking for those who will help shape AI evaluations of financial reasoning and related capabilities, and will own individual threads within this endeavor end-to-end.

In this role, you'll:

Identify important model capabilities, skills, and behaviors that are crucial to financial workflows, and design methods to quantify performance in these areas

Own and pursue a research agenda to identify an important model capability (especially as it relates to financial reasoning) and build evals to measure it

Continuously refine evaluations of frontier AI models to assess the extent of frontier capabilities

We expect you to:

Have strong engineering and statistical analysis skills (with at least 2-3 years of full-time technical experience)

Be passionate about evals for real world applications and knowledge work

Be detail-oriented and thorough

Be a team player / willing to do a variety of tasks to move the team forward

Be passionate and knowledgeable about AGI/ASI measurement

Be able to operate effectively in a dynamic and extremely fast-paced research environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end

It would be great if you also have:

An ability to work cross-functionally

Excellent communication skills

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.