OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health
$380K–$500K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
About the job
Research frontier AI capabilities for health, evaluate their impact, and integrate successful methods into models and products used by patients and clinicians.
What you'll do
- Lead research directions from problem selection and experiment design through model integration.
- Develop training methods and evaluations that improve health reasoning, reliability, calibration, and behavior.
- Build models and agents for longitudinal, multimodal health data and collaborate to bring capabilities into products.
What they ask for
- Strong track record in machine learning or AI research, with depth in pretraining, reinforcement learning/post-training, evaluations, or a frontier health/biomedical AI problem.
- Ability to design experiments, write and debug code, work with data and training infrastructure, and move quickly from ideas to evidence.
Nice to have
- Experience with health AI, longitudinal health data, or clinical research.
Pay
$380K – $500K USD base salary
Tools
pretraining, midtraining, reinforcement learning, post-training
AI focus
Develop frontier health AI capabilities, including training methods, evaluations, and models or agents that reason over health data to support predictions, scientific insights, and better health decisions.
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