OpenAI
Software Engineer, Research - Human Data
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jan 23, 2026
About the job
Builds platforms, tools, and infrastructure for collecting human feedback and training, aligning, and evaluating OpenAI models.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain full-stack systems for feedback collection, data labeling, and evaluation pipelines.
- Translate alignment research into scalable production infrastructure, including inference and model training stacks.
- Design tools and backend services for data workflows and collaborate with research and program teams on feedback loops.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience building production systems at scale.
Nice to have
- Enjoys full-stack development with end-to-end ownership.
- Motivated to collaborate with research teams on novel, ambiguous problems.
AI focus
Builds human-feedback systems and infrastructure to train, align, and evaluate AI models, including translating alignment research into production systems.
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