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Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing

OpenAI · San Francisco

Frontier labonsite$380k–$500k
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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
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