Senior Software Engineer – AI Research Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer for the Future of Computing Research team in San Francisco, CA. You will build tools and services for AI research, evaluation, and data generation workflows.

The role centers on turning ambiguous questions into working research systems with reproducible, observable results while ensuring reliability across platforms. You will collaborate with researchers, designers, and engineers to advance evaluation systems, synthetic data pipelines, review tools, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack experience across web apps, APIs and data models.
• Expertise in generative AI, multimodal models, or model-evaluation systems.
• Experience building internal tools for technical and non-technical users.

Responsibilities

• Build web applications, APIs, data models, and backend services for AI research workflows.
• Develop tools to author and manage evaluation tasks, rubrics, graders, suites, and rollout configurations, including workflows for publishing, versioning, auditing, and sharing research artifacts.
• Automate evaluation runs and generate useful reports for design, research, and engineering teams.
• Support synthetic data generation workflows for multimodal and conversational research, including tools that combine transcripts, media, and model comparisons.
• Translate product and research questions into measurable scenarios, automated graders, and human-evaluation campaigns, and develop measures of task quality, coverage, diversity, and semantic spread.
• Diagnose issues across application code, workers, model endpoints, deployments, and compute infrastructure, and improve reliability through health checks, observability, reproducible launch paths, data integrity safeguards, and automated verification.
• Lead migrations and dependent changes across research tools, evaluation systems, and supporting services.
• Partner closely with designers, model researchers, research engineers, and infrastructure teams, and onboard contributors to create high-quality evaluation and synthetic-data workflows.

Skills

7+ years exp

Full-stack

Web apps

APIs

Data models

Backend services

Generative AI

Evaluation systems

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer for the Future of Computing Research team in San Francisco, CA. You will build tools and services for AI research, evaluation, and data generation workflows.

The role centers on turning ambiguous questions into working research systems with reproducible, observable results while ensuring reliability across platforms. You will collaborate with researchers, designers, and engineers to advance evaluation systems, synthetic data pipelines, review tools, and