Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Deep Research | OpenAIResearch Engineer / Research Scientist - Deep Research

Post-training - San FranciscoAbout the TeamThe Deep Research team is responsible for building the models that power our Deep Research capability and other future agentic offerings. Our team helps shape the direction of our agentic products and conducts fundamental research inspired by our product direction.About the RoleAs a Research Engineer / Scientist, you will do research and engineering work to improve our models. Potential research areas include:Working closely with product to identify new agentic capabilities, and developing methods to train these capabilities into the model.Developing evals and datasets to assess and improve the model’s performance on challenging or important tasks.Pursuing algorithmic improvements to improve the intelligence of the model.Developing new tools and training the model to use them.We're looking for individuals with ML engineering skills, research experience, and an interest in building products.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:Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance.Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack.Collaborate closely with the other research and product / applied teams, allowing customers to optimize their own models.You might thrive in this role if you:Are a self-starter who takes initiative and ownership of ideas, driving them to completion.Care deeply about working on product-focused research projects and staying close to users.Like a fast-paced, dynamic environment where rapid iteration is key.Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug and improve it.Have a deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications.Thrive in a dynamic and technically complex environment.About OpenAIOpenAI 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.We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.Compensation$360K – $530K + Offers Equity

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