Research Scientist

OpenAI

San Francisco, USonsite$250k-$445k/yrPosted Apr 5, 2025
Posting intelligenceMay be filled, listed long ago

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About the role

By applying to this role, you will be considered for Research Scientist roles across all teams at OpenAI.

About the Role

As a Research Scientist here, you will develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda of the team you work on, while also collaborating with peers across the organization. We are looking for people who want to discover simple, generalizable ideas that work well even at large scale, and form part of a broader research vision that unifies the entire company.

We expect you to:

- Have a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects

- Possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects

- Be excited about OpenAI’s approach to research

Nice to have:

- Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology

- Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms

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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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

This AI Researcher role pays $250k-$445k/yr. Within typical range for ai researcher roles in United States.

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