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Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Agents

OpenAI
OpenAI Salary
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025
About The Team

The Agents team within Research works in research areas combining language models, reinforcement learning, and agents.

About The Role

We’re looking for Research Engineers / Scientists eager to advance the frontier of agent research. This role involves a full process from fundamental research to launching the research work as an agent product.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In This Role, You Will

  • Own and pursue a research agenda to identify the weakness of the model and improve it
  • Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
  • Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

  • Believe that having a solid evaluation is crucial for research projects to succeed
  • Are excited about shipping the research work as a product
  • Don’t have biased opinions on what methodology should be used to solve a particular problem
  • Are happy to learn whatever is needed and have unique way of learning quickly
  • Are a first-principles thinker
  • Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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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.

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