# Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $205K – $380K • Offers Equity **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/bba18df5-f30f-4d2c-909c-30e651f95579 **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b0c58796-627 ## Description ## Job Posting Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments ### Location San Francisco ### Employment Type Full time ### Department Research ### Compensation - $205K – $380K • Offers Equity The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) - 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. More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process. This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions. ### About the team The Frontier Evals & Environments team builds north star model environments to drive progress towards safe AGI/ASI. This team builds ambitious environments to measure and steer our models, and creates self-improvement loops to steer our training, safety, and launch decisions. Some of the team's open-sourced evaluations include GDPval, SWE-bench Verified, MLE-bench, PaperBench, and SWE-Lancer, and the team built and ran frontier evaluations for GPT4o, o1, o3, GPT 4.5, ChatGPT Agent, and GPT5. If you are interested in feeling firsthand the fast progress of our models, and steering them towards good, this is the team for you. ### About you We seek exceptional research engineers that can push the boundaries of our frontier models. Specifically, we are looking for those that will help us shape our empirical grasp of the whole spectrum of AI capabilities measurement and will own individual threads within this endeavor end-to-end. ### In this role, you'll: - 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 ### We expect you to be: - 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 ### It would be great if you also have: - First-hand experience in red-teaming systems—be it computer systems or otherwise - An ability to work cross-functionally - Excellent communication skills ### About OpenAI OpenAI 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. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. ## Skills ### Required - ML research engineering - stochastic systems - observability and monitoring - LLM-enabled applications - AI evaluations ### Nice to have - red-teaming systems - cross-functional collaboration - communication skills