Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI

The role

You will work on automating research at OpenAI by building systems and feedback loops. This involves designing evaluations, improving model research capabilities, and developing research agents and orchestration systems.

What you will do

• Design evaluations for research judgment, hypothesis generation and testing, and long-horizon experiment execution.
• Turn real 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 effects on research productivity, model capabilities, and safety.

Required qualifications

• Research or engineering experience across LLM training, model evaluations, agent systems, synthetic data, research infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong generalist who can move between open-ended research and practical implementation.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across the full stack, including systems, data, model training, and evaluations.
• Comfortable building and maintaining data pipelines, tooling, and infrastructure.
• Comfortable working on problems without clear definitions or established playbooks.
• Ability to think rigorously about scientific quality, research taste, safety, privacy, reliability, performance, and scale.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world through products.