Ai Research Scientist in United States

About the Team The Applied AI team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. We released ChatGPT, Plugins, DALL·E, and the APIs for GPT-4, GPT-3, embeddings, and fine-tuning. We also operate inference infrastructure at scale. There's a lot more on the immediate horizon. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. We serve end-users directly through ChatGPT, and serve developers through our APIs, which power product features that were never before possible. About the Role The Engineering Acceleration team designs, builds and maintains the foundational systems that engineers use to build ChatGPT and the API. This is a fast-growing team and you will get a chance to own and define the strategy, vision, and plan for how to increase developer productivity. In this role, you will: Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output. Use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry. Work closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs, and ensure the tools and systems built by the Engineering Acceleration team address these requirements. Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations. Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems. Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 5+ years of experience in engineering, including 3+ years of experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers. Have experi

About the team The Applied team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. We released ChatGPT; Plugins; DALL·E; and the APIs for GPT-5, embeddings, and fine-tuning. We also operate inference infrastructure at scale. There's a lot more on the immediate horizon. Our customers build fast-growing businesses around our APIs, which power product features that were never before possible. ChatGPT is a prime example of what is currently possible. We simultaneously ensure that our powerful tools are used responsibly. Safe deployment is more important to us than unfettered growth. The Fraud Engineering team works within our Applied Engineering organization identifying and responding to fraudsters on our platform. We are looking for a software engineer with anti fraud & abuse experience to help architect and build our next-generation anti-fraud systems. About the role The Scaled Abuse team protects OpenAI’s products and customers by detecting, preventing, and responding to fraudulent and abusive behavior at scale. We build and operate the backend and data systems that power real-time detection, investigation workflows, and enforcement — balancing strong protections with a great user experience as the platform grows. Our work sits at the intersection of engineering and abuse expertise: we partner closely with Trust & Safety, Security, and Product to understand emerging attack patterns, translate messy signals into clear system behavior, and continuously harden our defenses. The problems are dynamic and ambiguous by default, so we value engineers who can quickly dive into an unfamiliar codebase, develop strong intuition about how it works end-to-end, and propose pragmatic improvements that make the entire stack more resilient. In this role, you will: Design and build systems for fraud detection and remediation while balancing fraud loss, cost of implementation, and customer experience Work closely with finance, security, product, research, and trust & safety ope

About the Team The Statsig team at OpenAI builds and operates the experimentation platform that powers product development, measurement, and decision-making across the company. We partner closely with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure experiments are trustworthy, statistically rigorous, and scalable to the needs of frontier AI products. Our mission is to help teams make better decisions through reliable experimentation. We care deeply about statistical correctness, pragmatic solutions, and building systems that researchers and engineers can trust at massive scale. The team operates at the intersection of experimentation methodology, data infrastructure, causal inference, and product analytics. We are looking for experienced experimentation experts who want to shape the future of experimentation in the AI era. About the role: We're seeking a Data Engineer to take the lead in building our data pipelines and core tables for OpenAI. These pipelines are crucial for powering analyses, safety systems that guide business decisions, product growth, and prevent bad actors. If you're passionate about working with data and are eager to create solutions with significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. This role also provides the opportunity to collaborate closely with the researchers behind ChatGPT and help them train new models to deliver to users. As we continue our rapid growth, we value data-driven insights, and your contributions will play a pivotal role in our trajectory. Join us in shaping the future of OpenAI! In this role, you will: Design, build and manage our data pipelines, ensuring all user event data is seamlessly integrated into our data warehouse. Develop canonical datasets to track key product metrics including user growth, engagement, and revenue. Work collaboratively with various teams, including, Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research to understand their data needs and provide solutions. Implement ro

About the Team: OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Our API is the industry's most widely adopted AI platform, empowering startups, indie developers, and Fortune 500 companies alike. Through multimodal APIs—spanning real-time interactions, text-to-speech (TTS), speech generation, and image generation—we enable users to harness the full potential of diverse AI modalities effectively and at scale. About the Role: We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our multimodal API product suite. Your team will be responsible for delivering innovative APIs across real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image creation. You will own the product roadmap for how we evolve our multimodal API offerings, and you will build the products that allow developers to reach millions of end users through AI audio, video, and images. In this role, you will: Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products – including our realtime API, our transcription models (Whisper), our speech generation models (TTS), and our image generation APIs (DALLE and native 4o). Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define the strategic vision and product roadmap. Work closely with our research teams to improve our core multimodal models for API customer use cases. Guide technical and architectural decisions, emphasizing scalability, robustness, and user experience. Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability within your team. Qualifications: Proven experience managing engineering teams that deliver complex, high-quality products at scale. Strong technical background and proficiency in modern software engineering practices and system architecture. Excellent collaboration and communication skills to effectively coordinate across diverse teams and stakeholders. Familiarity with or strong interest in multimoda

About the role We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models—before incidents occur. This is a builder’s role: you’ll lead engineers shipping production services, detection pipelines, and mitigation mechanisms that protect frontier model integrity and reduce high-severity misuse risk. While this work intersects with frontier model development, security and risk, we’re explicitly seeking someone with a software engineering foundation who is comfortable building reliable systems that can operate at billions of users scale. In this role you will: Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model misuse, with an emphasis on model IP protection / distillation detection and emerging risk surfaces from autonomous agents. Set the technical roadmap and execution strategy: prioritize, design, ship, iterate, measure impact. Build production systems: services, pipelines, tooling, instrumentation, and automation that scale with frontier model usage. Partner deeply with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into concrete tests, signals, and mitigations that can be deployed at scale. Drive strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence. Hire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains as needed. Anticipate what breaks at scale as agentic workflows become more capable. You might thrive in this role if you: Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments Are comfortable with ambiguity and novelty Have experience adjacent to security (e.g., abuse prevention, fraud, integrity, platform defense, auth/identity, malware/spam, adversarial environments) Communicate clearly and build trust quickly with senior stakeholders—pragmatic, collaborative, and calm under scrutiny. Significant experience

About the role Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species. We are a small, self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI. We're looking for a Product Designer to help build out experiences across Midjourney projects. You'll work closely with design and engineering to design and ship everything from product launches and feature pages to marketing moments and entirely new experiences. This is a hands-on role. We expect you to be as comfortable refining typography and layout as you are shipping a page. If your favorite part of the job is making beautiful things that people actually use, keep reading. What you'll do Design and build products from concept through launch. Work closely with design and engineering on new features and launches. You care about the details—typography, layout, motion, responsiveness, loading states, and performance—that make an experience great. Contribute visual assets for marketing. Prototype ideas quickly using Figma, Claude, Cursor, and whatever tools helps move the work forward. You might be a fit if You have 2–4 years of experience designing and building for the web. You move fluidly across the full design process, from early concept through final production. You have an instinct for the details that make interfaces feel considered: type, spacing, motion, and how they all work together. You know enough HTML and CSS to work effectively with engineers—or to build parts of the experience yourself. You're comfortable using tools like Claude Code and Cursor as part of your workflow. You'd rather prototype than make a presentation. Work > ego Logistics Full-time. Hybrid in San Francisco or New York. Compensation: $172,572–$195,220 + benefits. To apply A portfolio is required.

About the job Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species. We are a small, self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI. Most of the products we build don’t have obvious precedents. We need product managers who can help teams navigate that uncertainty, make decisions, and turn ambitious ideas into products people can actually use. We’re looking for a Product Manager to help lead that effort. You’ll work closely with design, engineering, and research throughout the product development process, using tools like Claude Code to prototype concepts. You’ll help teams stay organized, make thoughtful decisions, and move projects from early ideation to launch. This is a hands-on role. Some days you’ll be writing product specs, running standups, and coordinating launches. Other days you’ll be interviewing users, reviewing prototypes, or digging into product questions that need deeper investigation. If you enjoy bringing structure to creative work and making it easier for great teams to do their best work, you’ll probably enjoy it here. What you’ll do Own the execution of major product initiatives. Partner closely with design and engineering from early exploration through launch. Write product requirements, manage backlogs, and keep projects moving. Facilitate planning, standups, reviews, and comms between teams. Help teams make informed decisions through UXR, research, and using Midjourney deeply yourself. Go deep on important product questions when needed, whether that means conducting user research, designing experiments, or working through a difficult product tradeoff. Help teams decide what matters most and make smart choices about quality, scope, and speed. You might be a fit if You’ve spent the last several years building software people love to use. You know how to create structure without weighing a team down. You’re as comfortable writing a product spec as you

About the job Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species. We are a small, self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI. We don't think the future should look like yesterday's software. Our design team works across research, engineering, and product to make new capabilities feel intuitive, fun to use, and deeply human. We're looking for a Design Lead to help lead that effort. You'll partner closely with our Chief Design Officer to shape the future of Midjourney's products while building and leading the product design team. This isn't a traditional management role. You’ll spend meaningful time designing, prototyping, reviewing work, and solving difficult product problems alongside your team. Most days you will be helping exceptional designers do the best work of their careers by building with them. If your favorite part of leadership is modeling what good looks like by collaborating and getting your hands dirty with your team, you’ll probably enjoy it here. What you'll do Work closely with the Chief Design Officer to shape the direction of Midjourney's products. Recruit, mentor, and lead the product design team. Stay close to the work by designing key product experiences and helping teams solve their hardest design problems. Partner closely with engineering and research to turn new tech into intuitive product experiences. Establish design reviews and operating rhythms that help the team do its best work. Ensure a coherent experience across Midjourney's growing portfolio of products. You might be a fit if You've spent the last decade designing software people love to use. You've led design teams, but you still want to be in Figma every day. You're as comfortable thinking through product strategy as you are refining a single interaction. You work well with engineers and like building things that don't have established playbooks. You care about craft and iterate

About the role Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species. We are a small, self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI. We're looking for a senior product designer who's spent years building software. You'll design core product experiences across web and mobile, working directly with engineers and researchers from the earliest stages of a project through launch. What you'll do Own major product surfaces end-to-end: concept, flows, interaction, visual polish, ship Invent interaction paradigms for things that haven't existed before and make those new paradigms legible and fun Use research, experimentation, analytics, and user feedback to understand what people need and where products can improve. Prototype constantly, in Figma and in code — tools like Claude and Cursor should be part of your workflow Partner directly with engineering and research to refine interactions, iterate quickly, and ship high-quality work. You might be a fit if You've spent the last decade designing software people love to use. You're comfortable moving between interaction design, visual design, and product thinking. You enjoy working closely with engineers. You agree that good work often emerges out of many rounds of iteration. You explore wildly, are always ready to kill your darlings, and rework ideas until something clicks and feels correct. You'd rather prototype than make a presentation. Work > ego Logistics Full-time. Ideally San Francisco or New York, but PST/EST hours ok. Compensation: $200,000–$285,000 + benefits To apply A portfolio is required. We care much more about what you've made than where you've worked; if this sounds like you, apply even if you don't check every box.

About the job Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species. We are a small, self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI. Most of the products we build don't have obvious precedents. We need a QA practice that helps us understand how they'll behave in the real world, identify problems early, and ship with confidence. You'll work closely with product, design, and engineering throughout development, helping teams identify problems early and ship with confidence. This isn't a role where you'll spend your days executing checklists. We expect you to think critically about how products behave, investigate difficult issues, improve how we test software, and go deep on the projects that matter most. If your favorite part of the job is making products noticeably better—and helping everyone around you build with more confidence—you'll probably enjoy it here. What you'll do Partner closely with product, design, and engineering throughout the development process. Stay close to the work by leading testing efforts on our most important product initiatives. Go deep on difficult problems—whether that's investigating a difficult bug, identifying edge cases, improving test coverage, or helping a team understand how a product behaves in the real world. Design thoughtful test plans and identify issues before they reach users. Help improve how we test software through better tooling, automation, and testing practices. Reproduce issues, identify root causes, and verify fixes before release. You might be a fit if You've spent the last several years testing software people actually use. You enjoy understanding how products behave, not just whether they work. You're as comfortable investigating a subtle bug as you are thinking through an entire user flow. You work well with designers, engineers, and product managers. You care about quality and believe the best testing happens througho

Your challenge As a Sales Engineer, you apply your project experience and industry knowledge to devise engaging industry-specific demos and proofs of concept. You support the Business Development team as an industry advisor during the sales process and work with the Delivery Advisory team on advisory assignments for your industry. You are responsible for: Understanding and researching the competitive differentiators and unique selling points of our targeted industry solutions. Developing, fine-tuning, and managing our unique selling points and storylines for a range of products in one or more of our core industries . Showcasing your solution and industry knowledge at commercial conferences through networking and product demonstrations. Developing a set of industry-specific product demos based on your understanding of their key differentiators. Sharing input and feedback from prospects, customers, and the market at large with the Standard Demo team. Expanding the functionalities of the standard demo in coordination with the Standard Demo team. Engaging and convincing prospects and customers by presenting demos and starting the conversation. Translating customer-specific requirements into high level solution designs in close collaboration with customers and our internal competence centers. Documenting the proposed solution’s scope and project approach. Supporting the advisory team in advisory assignments within your industry. Assisting in the formulation of RFx responses with solution and industry expertise and providing marketing support. Acting as a trusted advisor towards our prospects and customers. About you Essential talents and qualifications: A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Mathematics, Programming, Supply Chain, or similar. 3-5 years of experience in supporting sales cycles. In-depth knowledge of supply chain planning processes and solutions. Advanced industry knowledge. Experience in B2B sales, ideally in enterprise soft

Your challenge As a Sales Engineer, you apply your project experience and industry knowledge to devise engaging industry-specific demos and proofs of concept. You support the Business Development team as an industry advisor during the sales process and work with the Delivery Advisory team on advisory assignments for your industry. You are responsible for: Understanding and researching the competitive differentiators and unique selling points of our targeted industry solutions. Developing, fine-tuning, and managing our unique selling points and storylines for a range of products in one or more of our core industries . Showcasing your solution and industry knowledge at commercial conferences through networking and product demonstrations. Developing a set of industry-specific product demos based on your understanding of their key differentiators. Sharing input and feedback from prospects, customers, and the market at large with the Standard Demo team. Expanding the functionalities of the standard demo in coordination with the Standard Demo team. Engaging and convincing prospects and customers by presenting demos and starting the conversation. Translating customer-specific requirements into high level solution designs in close collaboration with customers and our internal competence centers. Documenting the proposed solution’s scope and project approach. Supporting the advisory team in advisory assignments within your industry. Assisting in the formulation of RFx responses with solution and industry expertise and providing marketing support. Acting as a trusted advisor towards our prospects and customers. About you Essential talents and qualifications: A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Mathematics, Programming, Supply Chain, or similar. 3-5 years of experience in supporting sales cycles. In-depth knowledge of supply chain planning processes and solutions. Advanced industry knowledge. Experience in B2B sales, ideally in enterprise soft

About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to Semiconductor customers. You will own how solutions are scoped, built, shipped, and adopted across high-value engineering workflows such as RTL design, verification, and physical implementation. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will focus on the semiconductor vertical to deploy next-generation AI capabilities. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project m

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace. This role is based in San Francisco. W

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace. This role is based in NYC. We use a hy