mid machine learning Research Scientist ic Hybrid · Posted May 14, 2025
$360,000 – $440,000
USD per year

About this role

OpenAI is hiring a mid-level Research Scientist in the machine learning function based in San Francisco, CA (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with LLMs, Deep Learning, OpenAI. Compensation is listed at $360,000–$440,000 per year.

Role
Research Scientist
Function
machine learning
Level
mid
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work mode
Hybrid
Department
Research
Posted
May 14, 2025
AI Summary
Design and prototype new LLM architectures to improve model intelligence and efficiency. Execute experiments autonomously, debug performance issues, and optimize both model and computational performance. Requires deep understanding of LLM architectures, model inference, and hands-on empirical approach with experience on major LLM training runs.

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Job description

from OpenAI careers

About the Team

OpenAI's Training team is responsible for producing the large language models that power our research, our products, and ultimately bring us closer to AGI. Achieving this goal requires combining deep research into improving our current architecture, datasets and optimization techniques, alongside long-term bets aimed at improving the efficiency and capability of future generations of models. We are responsible for integrating these techniques and producing model artifacts used by the rest of the company, and ensuring that these models are world-class in every respect. Recent examples of artifacts with major contributions from our team include GPT4-Turbo, GPT-4o and o1-mini.

About the Role

As a member of the architecture team, you will push the frontier of architecture development for OpenAI's flagship models, enhancing intelligence, efficiency, and adding new capabilities.

Ideal candidates have a deep understanding of LLM architectures, a sophisticated understanding of model inference, and a hands-on empirical approach. A good fit for this role will be equally happy coming up with a creative breakthrough, investing in strengthening a baseline, designing an eval, debugging a thorny regression, or tracking down a bottleneck.

This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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