People Research Scientist in San Francisco

About the Team Security is foundational to OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security organization protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products by building and operating deeply technical systems that must work reliably at massive scale. Our work underpins OpenAI’s commitments around safety, privacy, and security across research, products, and emerging platforms. The Host Assurance team exists to make bare metal a dependable, scalable foundation for OpenAI: secure by default, verifiable in practice, and resilient across providers and operating models. We operate at the trust boundary between physical hardware and cloud-scale orchestration, ensuring that hosts are eligible to safely run workloads with predictable security properties and auditability. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer, Host Assurance to help build the trust foundations for bare-metal platforms across OpenAI’s global infrastructure. This is a deeply hands-on engineering role for a builder who can design, implement, and operate the core security infrastructure that establishes trust in hardware platforms before they are eligible to run workloads. Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, the ability to work comfortably at low levels of the stack, and a practical mindset for building systems that are secure, reliable, and usable in fast-moving production environments. The systems you build will sit on the critical path of OpenAI’s frontier infrastructure investments and will directly shape how large amounts of compute are brought online - securely, responsibly, and at global scale - underpinning long-lived commitments around privacy, security, and reliability. You will partner closely with infrastructure, research, and confidential computing initiatives—including novel hardware platforms and emerging deployment models– to make the secure path the easiest path. This role is well suited for engineers who enjo

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We are bringing our people systems in-house on Workday, and we are hiring our first dedicated Workday Analyst to make it excellent. You will join while the implementation is underway, ramp alongside our deployment partner, and own the tenant from go-live onward. This is a hands-on configuration role: you will build business processes, manage security, load data, and test releases yourself, and you will teach others on the People team to do the same as we grow. If you want to shape a Workday environment from its first day in production instead of inheriting years of someone else's decisions, this is that rare opening. RESPONSIBILITIES Own day-to-day Workday configuration: business processes, security groups and roles, custom reports, calculated fields, and tenant settings Build and run EIB loads for data changes, mass updates, and audits Own the twice-yearly Workday release cycle: evaluate new features, regression-test, and roll out changes safely Shadow the implementation build, then take over tenant ownership at go-live Monitor integrations and triage issues with our IT team and vendors Support payroll configuration in partnership with our Accounting team and payroll services provider Field and resolve system requests from employees, managers, and the People team Mentor teammates so Workday administration becomes a team capability, not a single point of failure REQUIREMENTS 4+ years administering a live Workday

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Youth team is focused on making AI safe, useful, and empowering for young people. Our work spans foundational protections—including age assurance and always-on safety—as well as new learning and education experiences. We’re also exploring how OpenAI’s technology can support K–12 schools, educators, classrooms, and collaborative learning. About the Role We’re looking for a staff-level product designer to shape how young people safely engage with AI and help define OpenAI’s emerging education experiences. You’ll work across immediate product needs and ambitious zero-to-one opportunities, from age-appropriate safety systems to tools for learning and group work. A high craft bar is imperative. You’ll be expected to pair exceptional interaction and visual design with deep product thinking—turning complex questions around safety, learning, and institutional needs into experiences that feel clear, trustworthy, and engaging. This is a highly generative role for someone who can move from early exploration to concrete, high-fidelity product direction. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, research, safety, policy, and design to establish durable patterns for a space that is still being defined. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Establish an exceptionally high standard for craft across OpenAI’s youth and education experiences. Lead end-to-end design for products that help young people use AI safely, confidently, and productively. Design clear, age-appropriate experiences for safety, age assurance, and other sensitive or high-trust interactions. Shape zero-to-one K–12 experiences spanning school districts, educators, classrooms, collaborative work, and builder-style workflows. Turn emerging ideas into compelling concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity product experien

About the Team OpenAI’s Client Platform Engineering (CPE) team delivers trusted devices at scale: secure by default, reliable by design, and effortless to use. We own platform capabilities across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, spanning endpoint posture and device trust, application delivery, onboarding, updates, telemetry, workflow orchestration, and employee-facing remediation. The team partners deeply with Security, Research, Applied, and specialized engineering groups to enable and protect OpenAI while reducing friction for the people advancing our mission. About the Role As an Engineering Manager for CPE, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operation of OpenAI’s cross-platform client foundation. You will combine people leadership with strong technical judgment: setting direction, developing engineers, reviewing architecture and tradeoffs, and creating the operating mechanisms that turn ambiguous needs into durable platform outcomes. This is a high-leverage role at the intersection of security, reliability, developer velocity, and employee experience. CPE is a highly technical platform engineering organization delivering first-party services, automation, observability, and safe fleet operations. We’re looking for a leader who can guide its next chapter, scaling the team and its systems, partnering across the company, and raising the bar for secure, reliable, low-friction experiences across every supported platform. In this role, you will: Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team; hire thoughtfully, coach engineers, create clarity, and foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture that pushes perceived limits. Define and execute a multi-year client-platform strategy and roadmap across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, including how Codex and agents can reshape employee computing. Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, application delivery, device onboarding, updates,

About the Team Enterprise Marketing helps the world’s largest organizations understand, adopt, and scale AI. Our Executive Engagement programs bring OpenAI’s products, research, and perspective into the room with senior leaders as they consider how intelligence can be put to work against their most important priorities. These engagements are more than briefings or events. At their best, they help a leadership team understand what is changing, distinguish what is possible now from what is still emerging, and leave with greater clarity about what to do next. About the Role We are looking for an Executive Programs Lead, Americas to build and lead the portfolio through which OpenAI engages its most important customers and executives across the region. You will own the regional strategy, team, and quality bar for Executive Briefings and a broader portfolio of C-suite engagements, recurring executive forums, advisory programs, and proven formats ready to scale. Your mandate is to turn high-stakes customer moments into a durable business capability, one that consistently advances important relationships while preserving the judgment and customization that exceptional executive experiences require. This is a senior people-leadership role for a builder who can set direction, make disciplined portfolio choices, and create the systems and team required to deliver at scale. You will partner closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Product, Research, Solutions, Customer Success, Events, and OpenAI executives, moving comfortably between long-term design and the critical details of a live engagement. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid model of three days in the office each week and offer relocation assistance. Given the customer-facing nature of the role, regular in-person participation in executive briefings and related preparation is expected and may require additional time onsite. Travel across the Americas and occasional global travel are also expected. In this

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE The largest, most demanding enterprises run on Baseten, and they bring exacting requirements for how people, services, and agents access the platform. This is the founding role for our identity and authorization team within enterprise engineering. You'll own the identity and access layer of the Baseten platform: the authorization model, credential systems, and admin experiences that enterprise IT teams use to govern access for organizations like Harvey, HubSpot, and Notion. You'll design and build Baseten's fine-grained authorization system from the ground up to support the workflows customers depend on today while giving them cleaner, more precise ways to manage access as the platform grows. Authorization at Baseten requires low-latency permission checks at high request volume, consistent contracts and behaviors across the product suite, and strong security guarantees for mission-critical, highly regulated workloads. EXAMPLE INITIATIVES Recent and upcoming work in this area: Fine-grained authorization for users, service accounts, and agentic workloads: per-resource permissions at the organization, team, and workload scope to support both common workflows and complex enterprise access policies Programmatic authentication allowing high-compliance customers to connect service principles securely via short-lived, workload-based credentials Agent credentials that grant an agent exactly the access it needs for the gi

About the Team Like every team at OpenAI, the Marketing team contributes to our broader mission of ensuring that artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We develop and execute strategies that build understanding of OpenAI, deepen engagement with our key audiences, and communicate why we build, how our technology is creating value, and how we approach its broader societal impact. We work closely with Global Affairs, Communications, Creative, Research, Product, and other teams to translate complex topics into clear, relevant, and compelling stories. Our work spans national campaigns and locally tailored efforts, helping people understand both the opportunities created by AI and the important issues surrounding its development and adoption. About the Role We are seeking an experienced Integrated Marketing Lead to lead policy- and reputation-focused campaigns that strengthen the OpenAI brand nationally and within local communities. This person will spearhead integrated campaigns and corporate communications initiatives that help people understand why OpenAI builds, the impact of our technology, and how we are engaging with some of the most consequential issues surrounding AI—including infrastructure and data centers, jobs and economic opportunity, and youth safety. The role combines national paid media with locally relevant marketing and engagement efforts. The ideal candidate understands policy, public affairs, and civic audiences while also being a sophisticated brand marketer who can make complex subjects accessible and meaningful to a broader public. This person will bring strategic vision, sound judgment, organizational clarity, and exceptional execution to highly visible work. They will collaborate closely with Global Affairs, Communications, Creative, Research, and external agency partners to build trust and shape understanding of OpenAI at both the national and local levels. In this role, you will: Lead policy and brand campaign strategy: Develop integ

About the role ChatGPT is changing quickly and so is the market around it. We are looking for a brand strategist who can set direction across a portfolio of important, rapidly changing questions about ChatGPT. We want to help people better understand what ChatGPT stands for, why people should choose it, and how it can become a more useful part of their lives. You will turn complex product, audience, and market signals into clear choices, differentiated positions, and compelling creative work. The remit spans positioning, audience understanding, product and brand storytelling, and creative strategy. Your role is to help connect those areas into a coherent view of how ChatGPT should show up over time. OpenAI has a high-agency culture, and this is an especially dynamic and proactive team. People who thrive here are extremely comfortable with change. You should get energy from the opportunity to identify the most important problems before they are fully defined, bring the right people together, and create momentum around a clear direction. You will have space to find opportunities, shape priorities, influence product and marketing decisions, and build new approaches where no playbook exists. Expect the work to be hands-on. You will work closely with creative, product, product marketing, research, design, and communications partners, setting direction while staying involved from the first idea through delivery. We are looking for someone already immersed in AI who sees this as a moment they want to help shape. In this role, you will: Set direction for how ChatGPT is positioned in the market and shape its broader story across products, audiences, and moments. Develop differentiated positions grounded in what the product does, what people need, how the category is changing, and where the alternatives fall short. Lead a portfolio of high-impact brand and product marketing work. Identify the questions that matter most, establish priorities across competing opportunities, and

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The ChatGPT team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world. We serve a diverse audience of users who are already using ChatGPT daily in their lives and work. 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. About the Role We’re looking for a Product Design Manager to lead a team focused on consumer growth. You’ll manage and develop a team of eight or more product designers working across the customer journey—from discovery and onboarding through activation, engagement, retention, and expansion. This is a design leadership role centered on building an exceptional team, setting direction, and maintaining an extraordinarily high bar for craft. You’ll create the conditions for designers to do their best work, helping them navigate ambiguity, make thoughtful product decisions, and ship cohesive experiences at scale. You’ll partner closely with leaders across product, engineering, data science, research, content design, and go-to-market functions. You’ll combine deep design judgment with strong business acumen, ensuring the team’s work advances user needs, product quality, and sustainable business outcomes. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead and grow a high performing team of product designers, giving them the clarity, feedback, and support they need to do their best work. Keep the craft bar high, helping the team turn complex problems into experiences that feel simple, intuitive, and cohesive from end to end. Set a clear design vision for how people discover, adopt, and continue getting value from our products. Decide where the team should focus, match people to the right op

About the Team The Plugin Developer Platform team builds the APIs, SDKs, and tools that let people extend ChatGPT and Codex. We work on plugins, connectors, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and interactive apps. We want anyone to be able to turn a useful workflow into a plugin, share it, and have other people use it. A plugin can package instructions and skills with connections to the tools and data it needs. Our work covers plugin creation and publishing, the systems that run plugins across our products, and open standards that developers can build on. About the Role We’re looking for platform-minded engineers who know what it takes to build a platform developers want to use. You’ll work across developer-facing interfaces, APIs, and backend systems. You’ll own features from the first developer conversation through implementation and release. You’ll talk directly with developers, partners, and the open-source community. Their experience will inform the APIs and abstractions you design, the problems you prioritize, and the tradeoffs you make. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. What You’ll Do Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services that developers use to extend ChatGPT and Codex. Make plugins easier to create, test, publish, update, and share. Improve compatibility and consistency across ChatGPT and Codex, including interactive app experiences. Contribute to MCP and other open standards, bringing practical developer needs into their design. Work with developers and partners to understand recurring problems and improve the platform, tooling, and documentation. Work with Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety on permissions, compatibility, and safe, reliable execution. You Might Thrive Here If You Have built software that other developers use. Your experience might include an open-source project, an API or SDK, a developer platform, internal too

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Baseten is building for talent density. We believe attracting and retaining exceptional people, and ensuring they feel recognized and valued for their impact, is core to becoming the best place to work. Compensation is a critical lever in that mission. As our Compensation Manager, you will own compensation programs company-wide. You’ll be a trusted advisor to senior leaders, shaping our compensation philosophy, leveling framework, and equity programs to ensure we remain competitive, principled, and performance-oriented as we scale. This role blends strategy and execution: designing clear, fair systems while moving quickly in a high-growth environment. RESPONSIBILITIES Own and evolve Baseten’s company-wide compensation strategy, philosophy, and programs. Collaborate with leadership and HRBP to create and evolve job architecture and leveling frameworks. Build and maintain compensation bands. Conduct regular market benchmarking to ensure comp bands and strategy remain competitive in a fast moving industry. Partner closely with Talent to design and approve competitive new hire offers, advising on negotiation strategy within our compensation principles. Lead bi-annual leveling and compensation review cycles to ensure market competitiveness and reward high performance across teams. Manage new hire equity grants in partnership with Finance and Legal. Design and administer a thoughtful equity refresher program for ten

About the Team Enterprise Verticals builds role-specific ChatGPT Work experiences for high-value enterprise workflows. We combine product engineering, plugins and skills, connectors, data, evaluations, and customer evidence to turn useful demos into reliable daily work. This opening sits within the Technology vertical inside Enterprise Verticals. The group focuses on repeatable workflows for people at technology companies, beginning with functions such as data and analytics, sales, and design, and carries the shared platform needs—tool integration, permissions, quality measurement, and safe rollout—across those experiences. We work closely with Design, Research, GTM, Security, and platform teams, as well as with customers and design partners. Success means that people can reach a trustworthy first result, understand what the system did, and keep using the workflow—not merely that a prototype exists. About the Role We are looking for an exceptionally experienced, hands-on full-stack engineer to define and build the next generation of AI-powered enterprise workflows. You will take on the hardest and most ambiguous problems in the Technology vertical: translating real customer needs into product direction, designing the systems behind the experience, and personally writing and shipping production-quality code across the stack. You will own the technical direction and end-to-end delivery of products spanning ChatGPT Work surfaces, backend services, plugins, connectors, enterprise data, permissions, and evaluations. You will make foundational architecture and product tradeoffs; establish patterns other engineers can build on; and hold these experiences to a high bar for reliability, security, observability, and customer value. This is an individual-contributor role for an engineer who leads through technical judgment, direct execution, and influence—not people management. You should be equally comfortable working directly with customers, setting direction with senior cro

About the Team OpenAI’s Network Engineering team within IT and Security advances the mission of deploying artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of all by delivering secure, scalable, and resilient network services. We build and operate the connectivity that supports OpenAI’s offices, labs, campuses, cloud environments, people, and devices. By combining strong network fundamentals with security, reliability, automation, and user-centered design, we enable impactful AI research, corporate operations, and product innovation. About the Role As a Network Engineer at OpenAI, you will design, operate, and continuously improve the global networks that connect our offices, labs, campuses, PoPs, cloud environments, people, and devices. The role spans strategic platform engineering and responsive production operations: you will shape architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle plans, and automation while supporting incidents, escalations, and time-sensitive delivery. Operational signals will inform what we stabilize, simplify, standardize, or automate next. We work backward from user needs, investigate root causes, own outcomes end-to-end, and move quickly without compromising security. We are looking for a versatile engineer who can make pragmatic reliability and security tradeoffs, communicate clearly, and turn recurring operational work into durable platforms, tooling, and standards. You will partner across IT, Security, AppEng, Research, Applied, workplace teams, carriers, and vendors. In this role, you will: Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable enterprise networks across offices, labs, campuses, PoPs, cloud connectivity, and hybrid environments. Set strategic direction for network services through architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle planning, capacity strategy, and measurable reliability outcomes. Own production operations, including on-call, incident response, escalations, and time-sensitive delivery, while protecting user experience,

About the Team Enterprise Verticals builds role-specific ChatGPT Work experiences for high-value enterprise workflows. We combine product engineering, plugins and skills, connectors, data, evaluations, and customer evidence to turn useful demos into reliable daily work. This opening sits within the Technology vertical inside Enterprise Verticals. The group focuses on repeatable workflows for people at technology companies, beginning with functions such as data and analytics, sales, and design, and carries the shared platform needs—tool integration, permissions, quality measurement, and safe rollout—across those experiences. We work closely with Design, Research, GTM, Security, and platform teams, as well as with customers and design partners. Success means that people can reach a trustworthy first result, understand what the system did, and keep using the workflow—not merely that a prototype exists. About the Role We are looking for a full-stack product engineer who can own ambiguous enterprise workflows end to end: understand a customer problem, shape the product, build across frontend and backend, work through platform dependencies, instrument quality, and learn quickly with design partners. You will build across ChatGPT Work surfaces, services, plugins, connectors, and data or permission boundaries when the experience requires it. You will make quality and rollout observable through evaluations, product and operational signals, and clear fallback or rollback paths. This is a product-engineering role for someone who can move between user problems and system details without losing ownership of either. The strongest candidates will be able to turn specific customer evidence into a generalizable product, explain scope and architecture tradeoffs, and carry a feature from an early prototype through a bounded production rollout. In this role, you will: Build and ship role-specific workflows across ChatGPT Work surfaces, services, plugins, and connectors. Turn customer a

About the Team We're building the foundation for a new kind of AI coworker: persistent agents that have their own environments, can meet people wherever they work, and continue making progress for as long as a task requires. Our goal is to help individuals, teams, and organizations delegate meaningful work to AI—not just ask questions or complete a single turn. Our work brings together product, agent, and infrastructure capabilities across OpenAI. Together, we are creating always-on virtual coworkers that can carry context across tasks, operate through the right tools and channels, and deliver reliable results in real workplace environments. About the Role We’re looking for a full stack product engineer to shape how people discover, direct, and collaborate with AI coworkers. You’ll own product experiences end to end, spending roughly equal time building intuitive frontend surfaces and the backend systems that make agentic workflows persistent, reliable, and useful. You’ll work at the intersection of product engineering, design, agent capabilities, and enterprise readiness—turning rapidly evolving model and platform capabilities into experiences customers can understand, trust, and use every day. In this role, you will: Design, build, and ship full stack product experiences that help people and teams delegate meaningful work to persistent AI coworkers. Create intuitive frontend interfaces for directing agents, reviewing their progress, understanding their actions, and collaborating on the work they produce. Build backend APIs, services, and data models that support persistent agent state, asynchronous execution, orchestration, and progress reporting. Develop workflows that help agents access relevant context, use tools, and collaborate with people across workplace surfaces and channels. Partner with product, design, research, and engineering teams to turn shared capabilities into cohesive products. Build trust into the product through clear user controls, understanda