Research Engineer

About the Team

At OpenAI, we strongly believe in the importance of data and have seen repeatedly how large of an impact focusing on data quality can yield across all of our projects. The Data Processing team brings this focus to our flagship GPT models, owning the pipelines for turning raw data into the high quality, diverse, and multimodal datasets used to train our largest models. We work closely with teams focused on data acquisition, data quality, and multimodal data throughout Research. Most recently, in collaboration with these groups, we were responsible for building the dataset used to pre-train OpenAI’s newest multimodal model GPT-4o. 

In addition to building new datasets, we collaborate on data research and acquisition with teams in Research and Multimodal to explore ways to get more out of data, including questions around efficiency, efficacy, and diversity. We also own and continuously improve the infrastructure used across several teams to prepare data for training models small and large.

About the Role

As a Research Engineer here, you will be responsible for building AI systems that can perform previously impossible tasks or achieve unprecedented levels of performance.  We're looking for people with solid engineering skills who are comfortable working with large distributed systems and strive to write quality, well tested code.

The most outstanding deep learning results are increasingly attained at a massive scale, and these results require engineers who are comfortable working in large distributed systems.  We expect engineering to play a key role in most major advances in AI of the future.

In this role, you will:

• Build and own data pipelines operating on internet-scale data spanning the text, image, and audio modalities

• Collaborate with many teams within Foundations and across Research to incorporate our latest and greatest research into pre-training datasets

• Research new methods for improving our datasets alongside researchers within Foundations

You might thrive in this role if you: 

• Enjoy working at the cutting-edge of large language model research

• Have experience running complicated processing on very large datasets

• Are comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment - research can evolve quite rapidly!

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.

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