Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 200,000 - 370,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Analytical thinking","Teamwork","Critical thinking"]

Research Engineer on the Frontier Evals & Environments team, building ambitious RL environments and evaluation pipelines to measure and steer frontier AI models. You’ll develop scalable systems for continuous evaluation, create methodologies to explore model behavior, and help guide training and safety decisions across large-scale model runs. Emphasis on empirical measurement, red-teaming mindset, and cross-functional collaboration within OpenAI’s research stack.

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Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments

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Job Summary

Research Engineer on the Frontier Evals & Environments team, building ambitious RL environments and evaluation pipelines to measure and steer frontier AI models. You’ll develop scalable systems for continuous evaluation, create methodologies to explore model behavior, and help guide training and safety decisions across large-scale model runs. Emphasis on empirical measurement, red-teaming mindset, and cross-functional collaboration within OpenAI’s research stack.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Create ambitious RL environments to push our models to their limits.
  • •Measure frontier model capabilities, skills, and behaviors.
  • •Develop new methodologies for automatically exploring the behavior of these models.
  • •Help steer training for our largest training runs, and see the future first.
  • •Design scalable systems and processes to support continuous evaluation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 370,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Top-tier research engineer with ML experience and strong statistical analysis skills
  • •Ability to design and implement RL environments and evaluation frameworks
  • •Experience measuring model capabilities, behaviors, and emergent properties
  • •Strong problem-solving, red-teaming mindset, and excellent communication
  • •Ability to operate in a fast-paced, cross-functional research setting
Experience:AiMachine learningResearch
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingAnalytical thinkingTeamworkCritical thinking
Tech Stack:PythonReinforcement learningObservabilityLLMsML

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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Glassdoor: 4.4
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