Software Engineer - Research, Human Data

🕒 July 2, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $255k - $405k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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OpenAI

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

OpenAI is a leading research organization and company dedicated to creating advanced artificial intelligence technology, with a strong emphasis on safety and ethical considerations. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The company develops AI products like ChatGPT, which can assist users with tasks ranging from everyday requests to complex enterprise solutions. OpenAI also provides an API platform that integrates its AI models into various applications. The company is focused on innovation in AI and improving data analysis capabilities, while emphasizing safety and ethical governance of their systems.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain robust full-stack systems for feedback collection, data labeling, and evaluation pipelines, while maintaining high levels of security. • Translate experimental alignment research into scalable production infrastructure, including inference and model training stacks. • Design and iterate on user-facing tools and backend services to support high-quality data workflows • Partner with researchers, engineers, and program leads to shape feedback loops and model interaction paradigms • Drive infrastructure improvements that enable faster iteration and scaling across OpenAI’s frontier models, from internal research tooling all the way to production ChatGPT.

🎯 Requirements

• Have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems at scale • Enjoy full-stack development with end-to-end ownership — from backend pipelines to user interfaces • Are motivated by high-impact collaboration with research teams and solving novel, ambiguous problems • Are excited to shape how AI systems learn from human preferences and reflect a broad range of human values • Care deeply about inclusive tooling and building systems that enhance model safety, reliability, and usefulness

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family • Mental health and wellness support • 401(k) plan with 50% matching • Generous time off, many company holidays, and multiple coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge. • Paid parental leave (24 weeks paid birth-parent leave & 20-week paid parental leave) and family-planning support • Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)