Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will own a high-leverage research direction end to end, from choosing the problem to integrating work into frontier models. You will develop scalable training methods, build RL environments grounded in health problems, create trustworthy evaluations, build models and agents for longitudinal multimodal health data, and work with researchers, engineers, clinicians, and product teams.
Requirements
- Strong track record in machine learning or AI research in pretraining, RL/post-training, evals, or frontier biomedical AI
- Hands-on ability to design experiments, write and debug code, and work with data and training infrastructure
- Strong research taste
- Ability to own ambiguous problems end to end
- Healthcare experience helpful but not required
Responsibilities
- Own a research direction end to end, from problem selection to integration into frontier models
- Develop scalable methods across pretraining, midtraining, RL, and post-training to improve health capabilities
- Build and study RL environments grounded in real health problems
- Create trustworthy, unsaturated evaluations of model health capabilities
- Advance new 0→1 health capabilities
- Develop models and agents over longitudinal, multimodal health data
- Work with researchers, engineers, clinicians, and product teams
- Help establish that AI improves real health outcomes
Benefits
- Equity
- Hybrid work model
- Relocation assistance
- 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
