OpenAI · 4 days ago
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$310K/yr - $460K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Research Engineer/Research Scientist, you will advance AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge reinforcement learning methods, focusing on training intelligent and aligned agents.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods
Sit at the heart of training intelligent, aligned, and general-purpose agents
Debug and improve a large ML codebase
Qualification
Required
Background in reinforcement learning research
Ability to iterate quickly
Proficient at coding
Deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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