Research Engineer / Scientist - Perception

About the Team

The Perception team is responsible for the “perception” capabilities in all flagship models like GPT-4o, enabling them to understand the world beyond text inputs and to predict or act with human-level accuracy. Our goal is to advance the frontier of perception through rigorous scientific research and high-performance engineering, accelerating the development of safe and beneficial AGI. 

 

About the Role

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

For Research Engineers, we are seeking 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, navigating complex and impactful problems, and building high-performance infrastructures.

For Research Scientists, we are looking for people who are passionate about employing scientific methods to study and understand deep learning, image / video perception, neural network architectures, datasets, perception 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 perception 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.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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

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