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OpenAI · 1 day ago

Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$200K/yr - $370K/yr

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking exceptional research engineers to help shape empirical measurements of AI capabilities and to create ambitious environments that push their models to their limits.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Create ambitious RL environments to push our models to their limits
Work on measuring frontier model capabilities, skills, and behaviors
Develop new methodologies for automatically exploring the behavior of these models
Help steer training for our largest training runs, and see the future first
Design scalable systems and processes to support continuous evaluation
Build self-improvement loops to automate model understanding

Qualification

AGI/ASI measurementML research engineeringStatistical analysisRed-teaming systemsScalable systems designDynamic environment adaptabilityCommunicationCross-functional collaboration

Required

Passionate and knowledgeable about AGI/ASI measurement
Strong engineering and statistical analysis skills
Able to think outside the box and have a robust “red-teaming mindset”
Experienced in ML research engineering, stochastic systems, observability and monitoring, LLM-enabled applications, and/or another technical domain applicable to AI evaluations
Able to operate effectively in a dynamic and extremely fast-paced research environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end

Preferred

First-hand experience in red-teaming systems—be it computer systems or otherwise
An ability to work cross-functionally
Excellent communication skills

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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