Senior Software Engineer - Research Platform, Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labremotesenior$293k–$325k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build evaluation systems and synthetic data pipelines for frontier AGI research.
- Turn ambiguous design questions into working, reproducible research systems.
- Partner with top ML researchers and designers on consumer devices.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Seasoned full-stack engineer who thrives in ambiguity and loves working between designers and researchers to turn qualitative ideas into rigorous, trusted research systems.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack experience across web applications, backend services, APIs, and data models
- Expertise in generative AI, multimodal models, or model-evaluation systems
- Experience building internal tools for technical and non-technical users
- Comfortable debugging distributed workflows and production infrastructure
- Strong product judgment and ability to translate ambiguous requirements into plans
- remote policy
- Hybrid, 3 days in office per week
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