Research Scientist
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value attributed to a prominent employer in the AI field offering career growth potential with significant research impact.
- Engage in groundbreaking machine learning research
- Collaborate with elite professionals in AI
- High potential for personal and career development
- Challenging yet rewarding research responsibilities
Pros
- Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI research
- Collaboration with top-tier professionals in a renowned organization
- Strong potential for advancement in the AI field
Cons
- High expectations for innovation and performance
- Intense work environment may require long hours
- Potential pressure associated with pioneering research efforts
Who it's for
Mid to Senior • On-site in San Francisco
Good fit
- Skilled research scientists passionate about AI
- Professionals eager to innovate
- Curious minds interested in ethical considerations of AI
Not recommended for
- Beginner researchers without foundational AI expertise
- Those preferring remote or flexible working conditions
- Candidates disinterested in the implications of AI research
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
By applying to this role, you will be considered for Research Scientist roles across all teams at OpenAI.
About the Role
As a Research Scientist here, you will develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda of the team you work on, while also collaborating with peers across the organization. We are looking for people who want to discover simple, generalizable ideas that work well even at large scale, and form part of a broader research vision that unifies the entire company.
We expect you to:
Have a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects
Possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects
Be excited about OpenAI’s approach to research
Nice to have:
Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology
Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms
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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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