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OpenAI · 1 day ago

Research Scientist

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Research Scientist, you will develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda while collaborating with peers across the organization.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Machine LearningDeep Learning AlgorithmsResearch Agenda OwnershipFirst Author PublicationsImpactful Research ProblemsAI Technology Impact AwarenessCollaboration

Required

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

Preferred

Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology
Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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