Description
We are seeking research scientists, research engineers, and AI systems engineers to work on automating research at OpenAI.
The Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) team works across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure to build AI systems that accelerate and ultimately conduct high-quality research at OpenAI.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Requirements:
- 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.
- Collaborate effectively across the full stack, including systems, data, model training, evaluations, and other research teams.
- Are comfortable building and maintaining the data pipelines, tooling, and infrastructure needed to support emerging AI capabilities.
- Are comfortable working on problems without clear definitions or established playbooks.
- Think rigorously about scientific quality, research taste, safety, privacy, reliability, performance, and scale.
- Are excited about using increasingly capable AI systems to accelerate meaningful research.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.