Job Details

Researcher Engineer/Scientist, Training

Training - San Francisco

About the Team

OpenAI's Training team produces the large language models that power our research, products, and ultimately bring us closer to AGI. Achieving this goal requires 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, ensuring that these models are world‑class in every respect. Recent examples of flagship artifacts with major contributions from our team include GPT‑4 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 will be equally happy coming up with a creative breakthrough, investing in strengthening a baseline, designing an evaluation, 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.

In this role, you will:

• Design, prototype, and scale up new architectures to improve model intelligence
• Execute and analyze experiments autonomously and collaboratively
• Study, debug, and optimize both model performance and computational performance
• Contribute to training and inference infrastructure

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience landing contributions to major LLM training runs
• Can thoroughly evaluate and improve deep learning architectures in a self‑directed fashion
• Are motivated by safely deploying LLMs in the real world
• Are well‑versed in the state‑of‑the‑art transformer modifications for efficiency

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

Compensation

$360K – $440K + Offers Equity