Research Engineer, Codex
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labonsite$380k–$500k
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