OpenAI · 2 weeks ago
Researcher, Training
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$360K/yr - $440K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a member of the architecture team, you will enhance intelligence, efficiency, and capabilities of OpenAI's flagship models by designing and prototyping new architectures, executing experiments, and optimizing model performance.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design, prototype and scale up new architectures to improve model intelligence
Execute and analyze experiments autonomously and collaboratively
Study, debug, and optimize both model performance and computational performance
Contribute to training and inference infrastructure
Qualification
Required
Deep understanding of LLM architectures
Sophisticated understanding of model inference
Hands-on empirical approach
Ability to design, prototype and scale up new architectures to improve model intelligence
Ability to execute and analyze experiments autonomously and collaboratively
Ability to study, debug, and optimize both model performance and computational performance
Ability to contribute to training and inference infrastructure
Preferred
Experience landing contributions to major LLM training runs
Ability to thoroughly evaluate and improve deep learning architectures in a self-directed fashion
Motivated by safely deploying LLMs in the real world
Well-versed in the state of the art transformer modifications for efficiency
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
Recent News
2026-01-08
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