Research Engineer, Focused Bets
Research Engineer, Focused Bets
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About the Team
The Strategic Deployment team makes frontier models more capable reliable and aligned to transform high-impact domains. On one hand this involves deploying models in real-world high-stakes settings to drive AI-driven transformation and elicit insightstraining data evaluation methods and techniquesto shape our frontier model development. On the other hand we leverage these learning to build the science and engineering of impactful frontier model deployment.
Put differently we want to understand: if AGI is viewed as AI being able to majorly transform our economy how close are we to AGI Whats still missing How do we bridge these gaps
About the Role
As a Research Engineer on the Focused Bets effort in the Strategic Deployment team you will help OpenAI identify real-world domains that are ripe for transformation through frontier AI capabilities. Youll act as a technical lead and hands-on builder partnering with subject matter experts to understand the key aspects of a given domain pinpointing the most critical tasks in that domain and developing technical proofs-of-concept that build conviction driving OpenAIs strategic engagements.
Were looking for people who combine a strong machine learning background with an entrepreneurial mindsetengineers who can thrive in ambiguity quickly iterate toward the signal and adapt their approach as new insights emerge. You should be deeply curious about where AI can (and cant yet) have impact and excited to push the boundaries of whats possible.
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:
Drive research and prototyping sprints into specific domains in collaboration with domain experts.
Translate real-world tasks into tractable ML/engineering problems and develop proof-of-concept solutions using OpenAI models and tools.
Deliver working demos run in-the-wild evaluations and distill insights into actionable guidance for OpenAIs research and deployment teams.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Care about real-world impact of AI.
Are excited to drive how frontier models are developed and deployed.
Have hands-on experience in AI research systems or applied science.
Are excited by startup-style ambiguity and enjoy working across disciplines to drive a project from zero to one.
Enjoy working in open-ended problem spaces and high-feedback environments.
Are a curious adaptable generalist who enjoys learning fast asking deep questions and solving open-ended problems.
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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and non-public information. In addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
