OpenAI
Machine Learning Engineer, Core Experimentation
$437K–$485K
Seattle · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Education
- Machine learning, statistics, computer science, or a related field through formal study or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads development of production ML systems that use experimentation data to generate evidence-backed insights and predict product impacts, helping teams make safer, better-informed decisions.
What you'll do
- Set the technical roadmap for Generative Insights and Predictive Experimentation, from prototypes to production.
- Build systems for learning across historical experiments, predicting impact and uncertainty, and evaluating predictions against live outcomes.
- Create reliable, privacy-conscious data pipelines and production workflows, including approval-gated actions and human review.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience across the ML lifecycle, including dataset design, training or adaptation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build production systems in Python.
- Strong grounding in machine learning, statistics, computer science, or a related field through formal study or equivalent practical experience.
- Understanding of experimentation and statistical reasoning, including the difference between predictive accuracy and causal validity.
Nice to have
- Experience leading ambiguous 0-to-1 production ML products measured by real-world decision quality.
- Depth in one or more of LLM and retrieval systems, ranking or recommendation, forecasting or anomaly detection, causal ML or experiment analysis, or simulation.
Pay
$437K – $485K USD total pay
Tools
Python
AI focus
Builds ML, retrieval, and LLM-powered systems for experimentation insights and impact prediction, with calibrated uncertainty, provenance, privacy protections, and human approval boundaries.
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