Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labonsite$380k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turn vague signals of long-term flourishing into measurable model improvements.
- Build RL environments for hard-to-verify outcomes and study generalization.
- Scale tangible impact in education and mental health for over a billion users.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Hands-on researcher who cares deeply about AI improving lives and thrives on ambiguous problems, turning ideas into rigorous experiments and shipped impact at scale.
Requirements
- Strong research record in pretraining or RL / post-training, especially for hard-to-verify problems
- Hands-on builder able to run rigorous experiments and work with data and training infrastructure
- Ability to own ambiguous problems and drive research from idea to shipped improvement
- Ability to work across disciplines with product, engineering and domain experts
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
Posted · Last seen