Research Engineer / Scientist, Multimodal

OpenAI
San Francisco, CA

About the Team

Our team is dedicated to shaping the future of artificial intelligence by equipping ChatGPT with the ability to hear, see, speak, and create visually compelling images, transforming how people interact with AI in everyday life.

About the Role

We’re looking for Research Engineers and/or Research Scientists to help shape the frontiers of multimodal research.

We seek candidates who will excel in fast-paced environments and deliver results with precision and finesse. The ideal candidate will be someone who’s passionate about exploring new technologies, and navigating complex and impactful problems.

We are looking for people who are passionate about employing scientific methods to study and understand deep learning, neural network architectures, datasets, evaluations, and ML systems. A good candidate will have experience in designing and conducting experiments, navigating complex results, and driving innovations.

Both roles are based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will be:

  • Building and innovating various components of the multimodal stack, including datasets, modeling, evaluation, applications and more.

  • Collaborating with team members to deliver cutting-edge multimodal models.

  • Bringing the benefits of frontier research in perception to billions of users.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Are a team player, willing to do a variety of tasks that move the team forward.

  • Excels in execution, consistently and completing tasks efficiently.

  • Have experience in advancing the frontier of deep learning with innovations.

  • Have experience in working on large-scale multimodal models in areas such as image, video, or audio, etc.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form . No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link .

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$310K – $460K + Offers Equity

Posted 2025-08-07

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