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OpenAI· Posted 2026-08-05

Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI

San Francisco · Remotefull timeRemote

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$295k–$445k

H1B: yes

OpenAI Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer role at OpenAI focuses on automating research workflows and improving research productivity through AI systems. Responsibilities include designing evaluations, building research agents, and developing metrics to understand research productivity and model capabilities.

Responsibilities

We’re hiring research scientists, research engineers, and AI systems engineers to work on automating research at OpenAI.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA.
Design evaluations for research judgment, hypothesis generation and testing, and long-horizon experiment execution.
Turn real research workflows and model failures into data and evaluation flywheels.
Improve model research capabilities through agent harnesses, synthetic data, RL environments, and model training.
Build and maintain safe, reliable integrations between our models and OpenAI’s research infrastructure.
Develop research agents, experiment-orchestration systems, and sandboxed runtimes that support real research workflows.
Create metrics and economic models to understand RSI’s current and future effects on research productivity, model capabilities, and the safety of internal deployments.
This is a high-ownership role for researchers and engineers who thrive in ambiguity, move fluidly between research and implementation, and turn emerging opportunities into rigorous, reliable, scalable results.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have research or engineering experience across LLM training, model evaluations, agent systems, synthetic data, research infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.
Are a strong generalist who can move between open-ended research and practical implementation, turning ambiguous problems into clear results.

Qualification

Required

Research or engineering experience across LLM training, model evaluations, agent systems, synthetic data, research infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems

Company

OpenAI

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501-1000 employees

Artificial Intelligence

Founded 2015

Source: ashby

Active within the past hour

Remote-friendly

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