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OpenAI · 1 day ago

Research Scientist, Mathematical Sciences

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$380K/yr - $460K/yr

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Research Scientist focused on mathematical sciences, you will design and build frontier AI models, develop scientific datasets, and collaborate with the academic community to enhance the impact of AI in scientific research.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Assist in designing and building frontier AI models that are great at solving frontier mathematical sciences problems

Build high-quality scientific datasets and synthetic data pipelines (symbolic, numeric, and simulator-based)

Design reinforcement and grading signals for mathematical sciences and run reinforcement learning/optimization loops to improve model reasoning

Define and run evals for scientific reasoning, derivations, simulations, and literature grounding; track progress over time

Partner with research labs and the academic community

Drive adoption of frontier AI within the scientific community

Uphold high standards for safety, data governance, and reproducibility

Qualification

Mathematical sciencesAI experimentationScientific communicationReinforcement learningData governanceRigorReproducibilityOpen-source contributionsCollaboration

Required

Hold a current or recent academic position in mathematical sciences (mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science) or a related field

Regularly use frontier models in their own research

Move easily between theory and code, and are eager to contribute technically as well as academically

Either know or are eager to learn modern AI and run AI experiments end-to-end

Are strong scientific communicators

Care about rigor and reproducibility in scientific results

Preferred

Open-source contributions to mathematical science or AI tooling

Experience building or curating domain datasets and benchmarks

Experience engaging a research community (teaching, workshops, tutorials, standards)

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Company

OpenAI

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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

San Francisco, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.openai.com

H1B 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

Sam Altman

CEO & Co-Founder

Greg Brockman

President, Chairman, & Co-Founder

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