Senior Software Engineer - Research Platform, Consumer Devices

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 293,000 - 325,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Teamwork","Attention to detail"]

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build tools and services that enable AI research, evaluation, and synthetic data generation for OpenAI's Future of Computing Research team. You will translate ambiguous design questions into working research systems, collaborate with ML researchers, designers, and engineers, and deliver reusable platform services, evaluation workflows, and data-generation pipelines that improve reproducibility, observability, and impact on product decisions.

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Senior Software Engineer - Research Platform, Consumer Devices

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Job Summary

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build tools and services that enable AI research, evaluation, and synthetic data generation for OpenAI's Future of Computing Research team. You will translate ambiguous design questions into working research systems, collaborate with ML researchers, designers, and engineers, and deliver reusable platform services, evaluation workflows, and data-generation pipelines that improve reproducibility, observability, and impact on product decisions.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Build web applications, APIs, data models, and backend services for AI research workflows.
  • ā€¢Build tools to author and manage evaluation tasks, rubrics, graders, suites, and rollout configurations, including workflows for publishing, versioning, auditing, and sharing research artifacts.
  • ā€¢Automate evaluation runs and generate useful reports for design, research, and engineering teams.
  • ā€¢Support synthetic data generation workflows for multimodal and conversational research, including tools that combine transcripts, media, and model comparisons.
  • ā€¢Translate product and research questions into measurable scenarios, automated graders, and human-evaluation campaigns, and develop measures of task quality, coverage, diversity, and semantic spread.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 325,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • ā€¢Strong full-stack experience across web applications, backend services, APIs, and data models, including ownership of complex systems spanning multiple services or repositories.
  • ā€¢Expertise in generative AI, multimodal models, or model-evaluation systems.
  • ā€¢Experience building internal tools for both technical and non-technical users.
  • ā€¢Ability to debug distributed workflows and production infrastructure.
Experience:7+ yearsAIMultimodalModel evaluationResearch tools
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamworkAttention to detail
Languages:English
Tech Stack:APIsWeb applicationsData modelsBackend servicesObservabilityHealth checks

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·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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