Senior Software Engineer, AI Research Platform (Hybrid)

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 293,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build tools and platforms that accelerate AI research, evaluation, and data generation workflows. You will translate ambitious research questions into reliable systems, collaborating with ML researchers, designers, and engineers.

This role features a hybrid schedule (three days in the office per week) and relocation assistance for new hires.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Ownership of complex systems spanning multiple services or repositories.
• Expertise in generative AI, multimodal models, or model-evaluation systems.
• Built effective internal tools for both technical and non-technical users.
• Comfortable debugging distributed workflows and production infrastructure.
• Strong product judgment and ability to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete plans.
• Experience working between designers and researchers in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Build web applications, APIs, data models, and backend services for AI research workflows.
• Build 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

Full-stack development

Web applications

Backend services

APIs

Data models

Generative AI

Multimodal models

Internal tools

Distributed systems debugging

Observability

Collaboration

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build tools and platforms that accelerate AI research, evaluation, and data generation workflows. You will translate ambitious research questions into reliable systems, collaborating with ML researchers, designers, and engineers.

This role features a hybrid schedule (three days in the office per week) and relocation assistance for new hires.