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OpenAI · 8 hours ago

Senior Research Engineer/Scientist - Edge, Consumer Products

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$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 Engineer/Scientist on the Consumer Products Research team, you will collaborate with leading ML researchers and designers to enhance model capabilities and develop innovative architectures.

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

Train and evaluate multimodal SoTA models along axis that are important to our vision for future devices
Develop novel architectures that improve model performance when scaling the models themselves is not an option
Run through the necessary walls to take nascent research capabilities and turn them into capabilities we can build on top of

Qualification

Transformers adaptationPerformance optimizationMultimodal modelsGPU kernel collaborationRigorous scientific methodsModel training

Required

Research background in adapting transformers to run in environments with significantly less compute than traditional GPUs and datacenter accelerators
Love performance optimization and working with GPU kernel engineers (but you do not need CUDA experience yourself)
Do rigorous science (rather than vibes based). We need confidence in the experiments we run to move quickly
Have already spent time in the weeds teaching models to speak and perceive

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.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

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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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