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Software Engineer, Research - Human Data

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
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 build and maintain full-stack systems for feedback collection, data labeling and evaluation pipelines with strong security. You'll turn experimental alignment research into scalable production infrastructure, design user-facing tools and backend services, partner with researchers and program leads, and drive infrastructure improvements across frontier models.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems at scale
  • Full-stack development experience with end-to-end ownership
  • Ability to collaborate with research teams and solve ambiguous problems

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain full-stack systems for feedback collection, data labeling, and evaluation pipelines while maintaining high security
  • Translate experimental alignment research into scalable production infrastructure, including inference and model training stacks
  • Design and iterate on user-facing tools and backend services for high-quality data workflows
  • Partner with researchers, engineers, and program leads to shape feedback loops and model interaction paradigms
  • Drive infrastructure improvements enabling faster iteration and scaling across frontier models

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonus
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
  • 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 assistance
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Software Engineer, Research - Human Data at OpenAI | JobStash