Drimva

OpenAI

Research Scientist

$250K–$445K

San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Apr 5, 2025

About the job

Develop machine learning techniques and advance a research team’s agenda, pursuing ideas that work well at large scale and contribute to OpenAI’s broader research vision.

What you'll do

  • Develop machine learning techniques and advance the team’s research agenda.
  • Choose impactful research problems and autonomously pursue long-running projects.
  • Collaborate with peers across the organization.

What they ask for

  • Track record of generating or improving machine learning ideas, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first-author publications or projects.
  • Ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including independently selecting impactful problems and carrying out long-running projects.
  • Excitement about OpenAI’s approach to research.

Nice to have

  • Interest in and thoughtful consideration of AI’s impacts.
  • Past experience creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms.

Pay

$250K – $445K USD base salary

Tools

machine learning, deep learning

AI focus

Research and develop machine learning techniques.

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