Senior+ Software Engineer - Research Platform, Consumer Devices

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Build web applications, APIs, data models, and backend services to enable AI research workflows including evaluation, synthetic data generation, and artifact management.
• Design and develop tools for authoring and managing evaluation tasks, rubrics, graders, suites, and rollout configurations with support for publishing, versioning, auditing, and sharing research artifacts.
• Automate evaluation runs and generate actionable reports for design, research, and engineering teams to inform model training and product decisions.
• Support synthetic data generation pipelines for multimodal and conversational AI research, integrating transcripts, media, and model comparison outputs.
• Translate ambiguous product and research questions into measurable scenarios, automated graders, and human-evaluation campaigns, defining metrics for task quality, coverage, diversity, and semantic spread.
• Diagnose and resolve issues across application code, worker systems, model endpoints, deployments, and compute infrastructure using health checks, observability tools, reproducible launch paths, and automated verification.
• Lead migrations and dependent changes across research tools, evaluation systems, and supporting platform services to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Partner closely with ML researchers, designers, research engineers, and infrastructure teams to onboard contributors and establish high-quality evaluation and synthetic-data workflows.
• Ensure research artifacts have a clear lifecycle, runs are reproducible and observable, and results provide trustworthy evidence for decision-making while maintaining reusable, reliable systems.
• Develop internal tools used by both technical and non-technical users to streamline research workflows without requiring bespoke engineering support for each new concept.
• Operate and optimize systems that handle large-scale GPU-backed inference and rollout workloads in production environments.
• Maintain data integrity safeguards and improve system reliability through automated verification and monitoring across distributed workflows.
• Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across engineering, design, and research disciplines to bridge qualitative judgment with rigorous quantitative evidence.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong full-stack experience across web applications, backend services, APIs, and data models, including ownership of complex systems spanning multiple services or repositories
• Expertise in generative AI, multimodal models, or model-evaluation systems
• Experience building effective internal tools for both technical and non-technical users
• Comfort debugging distributed workflows and production infrastructure
• Strong product judgment and ability to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete plans

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid work model with four days in the office per week
• Relocation assistance for new employees
• Opportunity to work alongside leading ML researchers and design talent
• Access to cutting-edge AI research and deployment systems
• Inclusive, equal opportunity employer with commitment to diversity and reasonable accommodations
• Compliance with San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and California Fair Chance Act for qualified applicants

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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