Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI

Skills

About the Role

You will work on automating research at OpenAI. You will design evaluations for research judgment and experiment execution, turn research workflows and model failures into data and evaluation flywheels, improve model capabilities through agent harnesses, synthetic data, RL environments and training, build safe integrations with research infrastructure, develop research agents and sandboxed runtimes, and create metrics and economic models.

Requirements

• Research or engineering experience across LLM training, model evaluations, agent systems, synthetic data, research infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems
• Ability to move between open-ended research and practical implementation
• Experience building data pipelines, tooling, and infrastructure
• Comfort with ambiguous problems

Responsibilities

• Design evaluations for research judgment, hypothesis generation and testing, and long-horizon experiment execution
• Turn research workflows and model failures into data and evaluation flywheels
• Improve model research capabilities through agent harnesses, synthetic data, RL environments, and model training
• Build and maintain safe, reliable integrations between models and research infrastructure
• Develop research agents, experiment-orchestration systems, and sandboxed runtimes
• Create metrics and economic models to understand RSI effects on research productivity, capabilities, and safety

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
• Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
• Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
• Paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
• Relocation support
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends