OpenAI · 5 hours ago
Research Engineer, Human Data
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$310K/yr - $380K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Research Engineer on Human Data, your mission will be to invent and ship novel systems that maximize the utility of human feedback, creating new ways to capture and decode insights from user interactions.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Partner with researchers and the Human Data product manager to design, derisk, and implement 0-to-1 innovations in all aspects of human feedback
Uncover new insights on our AI trainers and users alike, and apply these findings to OpenAI’s research goals
Measure the efficacy of our existing feedback methods, and experiment to increase that efficacy
Design methods that precisely capture human feedback across subjective, context-dependent goals and evolve with how people actually use our models
Ensure our evaluations accurately track real-world utility and evolve with how people use our models and applications
Run online and offline experiments that quantify your downstream causal impact on model performance
Qualification
Required
Experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)
Comfortable experimenting with large-scale models
Ability to think about how to do things better
Goal-oriented instead of method-oriented
Enjoy moving fluidly between high-level research questions and low-level implementation details
Motivated by OpenAI's mission
Bring exceptional grit and creative problem-solving
Unblock yourself when external dependencies slow you down
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
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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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