RE/RS, Data Understanding - Foundations

OpenAI
Zurich
Workplace: HybridFull timeCHF 365,000 - 555,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Research","Collaboration","Experimentation","Data curation","Problem-solving"]

Advance how OpenAI builds and understands pretraining data at scale by treating data quality and curation as core research problems. Develop methods to select, combine, and transform data; create datasets that improve model capabilities; and run rigorous experiments to measure how data choices affect learning and downstream behavior. Partner with frontier models and web-scale data to turn research results into scalable data processing pipelines.

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RE/RS, Data Understanding - Foundations

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Job Summary

Advance how OpenAI builds and understands pretraining data at scale by treating data quality and curation as core research problems. Develop methods to select, combine, and transform data; create datasets that improve model capabilities; and run rigorous experiments to measure how data choices affect learning and downstream behavior. Partner with frontier models and web-scale data to turn research results into scalable data processing pipelines.
Location: Zurich
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop new methods to select, combine, and transform data for pretraining at scale.
  • •Create datasets that improve model capabilities and upstream data understanding.
  • •Design rigorous experiments to understand how data choices and interventions affect learning and downstream behavior.
  • •Build evidence by working with frontier models and web-scale data to determine which approaches work and why.
  • •Translate successful research into scalable data processing pipelines.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CHF 365,000 - 555,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong track record of new or improved ML ideas through publications, projects, or applied research.
  • •Ability to own and drive a research agenda from problem selection through long-running work and impact.
  • •Excitement for OpenAI’s empirical, collaborative approach to research.
Skills:ResearchCollaborationExperimentationData curationProblem-solving

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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