Software Engineer, Research - Human Data

OpenAI
San Francisco, London
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 255,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: []

Software Engineer for the OpenAI Human Data team, building platforms, prototypes, tools, and infrastructure that power how AI models are trained, aligned, and evaluated. Work across the stack with researchers and engineers to translate alignment ideas into scalable production systems, shaping data workflows and model interaction, with a focus on security, speed, and cross-team collaboration in a high-impact setting.

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Software Engineer, Research - Human Data

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Job Summary

Software Engineer for the OpenAI Human Data team, building platforms, prototypes, tools, and infrastructure that power how AI models are trained, aligned, and evaluated. Work across the stack with researchers and engineers to translate alignment ideas into scalable production systems, shaping data workflows and model interaction, with a focus on security, speed, and cross-team collaboration in a high-impact setting.
Location: San Francisco, London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and maintain robust full-stack systems for feedback collection, data labeling, and evaluation pipelines, while maintaining high levels of security.
  • •Translate experimental alignment research into scalable production infrastructure, including inference and model training stacks.
  • •Design and iterate on user-facing tools and backend services to support high-quality data workflows.
  • •Partner with researchers, engineers, and program leads to shape feedback loops and model interaction paradigms.
  • •Drive infrastructure improvements that enable faster iteration and scaling across OpenAI’s frontier models, from internal research tooling to production ChatGPT.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 255,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production systems at scale.
  • •Enjoy full-stack development with end-to-end ownership—from backend pipelines to user interfaces.
  • •Collaborate with research teams to solve novel, ambiguous problems and drive impact.
  • •Ability to contribute to or shape AI alignment and data workflows, with focus on safety, reliability, and usefulness.
  • •Experience building scalable platforms and tooling to support model training and evaluation.
Experience:AIResearch

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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