OpenAI
Researcher, Interpretability
$380K–$500K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 15, 2025
- Experience
- 2+ years of research engineering experience.
- Education
- Ph.D. or research experience in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
About the job
Conduct mechanistic interpretability research to understand deep-network representations and help make advanced AI systems safer.
What you'll do
- Develop and publish research on techniques for understanding deep-network representations.
- Build infrastructure to study model internals at scale.
- Collaborate across teams and guide research toward useful or scalable directions.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of research engineering experience.
- Proficiency in Python or similar languages.
Nice to have
- Experience in AI safety, mechanistic interpretability, or related disciplines.
- Ph.D. or research experience in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
Pay
USD $380K – $500K base salary
Tools
Python
AI focus
Research in mechanistic interpretability, including understanding model representations and engineering models for more understandable representations to support AI safety.
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