RE/RS, Data Understanding (MM)
At a glance
Highlights
- San Francisco location
- Research on multimodal data at scale
- Impact on large model training
Why this role might suit you
A candidate with a strong research background in multimodal machine learning and large‑scale data systems would thrive in advancing OpenAI's data pipelines and quality controls, directly influencing next‑generation model performance.
Skills
About the role
About The Team
The Data Understanding team is responsible for creating the high quality datasets and their quantized representation for OpenAI. This includes synthesizing multimodal data, building VQ representations, and processing, filtering, deduplication, quality control, and tokenization so it can be used effectively in big model training runs.
About The Role
We’re looking to advance how OpenAI prepares, curates, synthesizes and understands multimodal data at scale. You’ll work on research and production problems like synthesizing multimodal content (images, audio, and video) and their supervisions, improving noisy data pipelines, building better quality filters, using models to automate data prep, and measuring whether changes in the dataset improve model performance.
We Expect You To
- Have a strong track record of new or improved ML ideas, through publications, projects, or applied research.
- Own and drive a research agenda, from choosing the right multimodal data problems to carrying long-running work through to impact.
- Be excited by OpenAI’s empirical, collaborative approach to research.
Nice To Have
- Experience with multimodal learning, audio, vision, video, synthetic data, or data-centric ML.
- Thoughtfulness about AI’s impact, including privacy, provenance, and data quality.
- Experience building high-performance deep learning or large-scale data processing systems.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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Compensation
This Research Engineer role pays $445k-$555k/yr. Within typical range for research engineer roles in United States.
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