Research Engineer: Product‑Driven ML for Safer AI

OpenAI; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Research Engineer/Scientist to advance model capabilities through reinforcement learning and product-oriented research.

The role blends ML engineering and research, requires strong programming and evaluation design, and offers a hybrid work model with relocation support.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve model behavior and deploy safe, useful AI at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong ML fundamentals and research background.
• Experience turning qualitative problems into training interventions.
• Ability to design robust evaluations and experiments.

Responsibilities

• Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance.
• Collaborate with research and product teams to optimize customer models.
• Build robust evaluations to track modeling improvements.
• Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack.

Skills

Machine Learning

Research

Python

Reinforcement Learning

Code Debugging

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Research Engineer/Scientist to advance model capabilities through reinforcement learning and product-oriented research.

The role blends ML engineering and research, requires strong programming and evaluation design, and offers a hybrid work model with relocation support.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve model behavior and deploy safe, useful AI at scale.