OpenAI · 3 days ago
Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments - Finance
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$200K/yr - $370K/yr
2+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Research Engineer will identify important model capabilities in finance, design methods to quantify performance, and refine evaluations of frontier AI models.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Identify important model capabilities, skills, and behaviors that are crucial to financial workflows, and design methods to quantify performance in these areas
Own and pursue a research agenda to identify an important model capability (especially as it relates to financial reasoning) and build evals to measure it
Continuously refine evaluations of frontier AI models to assess the extent of frontier capabilities
Qualification
Required
Have strong engineering and statistical analysis skills (with at least 2-3 years of full-time technical experience)
Be passionate about Excel spreadsheets and/or finance
Be detail-oriented and thorough
Be a team player / willing to do a variety of tasks to move the team forward
Be passionate and knowledgeable about AGI/ASI measurement
Be able to operate effectively in a dynamic and extremely fast-paced research environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end
Preferred
Prior background / domain expertise in finance, especially investment banking or private equity (e.g., through internships, prior jobs)
An ability to work cross-functionally
Excellent communication skills
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.
201-500 employees
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Funding
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Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
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2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
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CEO & Co-Founder
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President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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