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Research Engineer, Codex

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labonsite$380k–$500k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Train the frontier agent models shipped in Codex and ChatGPT.
  • Define next-gen agent abilities and run experiments to make them real.
  • Carry new capabilities through training runs into shipped products.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

High-agency researcher-engineer who thrives on ambiguous problems and cares about shipping useful, reliable agents. Moves fluidly across research, engineering, and product to turn behavior insights into real model improvements.

Requirements

  • Strong technical fundamentals in ML, software engineering, systems, statistics or related field
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, RL, post-training, evals, coding or tool-using agents, or production ML
  • Excited by open-ended problems with noisy signal requiring research taste and engineering execution
  • Care about product impact and what makes an agent useful, reliable and easy to work with
  • Can move from vague behavioral problem to concrete experiment and decide next steps
  • Comfortable working across research, product, infrastructure, data, evals and safety
  • Willing to build load-bearing systems and processes when the team needs it
  • Want to train and ship models that make agents genuinely useful

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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