Research Intern in San Francisco

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 API Agents builds the shared agent harness, tools, and infrastructure that turn OpenAI’s frontier models into systems that can reliably complete real work. We carry the capabilities behind Codex into a much broader set of products and workflows across software engineering, research, finance, healthcare, enterprise operations, and more. Our work spans search and connected context, computer use, memory, delegation and multi-agent coordination, and safe execution. Sitting at the intersection of Research, Codex, infrastructure, and applied product teams, we build reusable agent capabilities that compound across the ecosystem. About the Role We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to build the core systems behind the next generation of agents. You will design reliable services and abstractions that help agents find the right context, use tools and computers, retain knowledge, coordinate over long-running workflows, and take action safely. The role combines deep backend and infrastructure work with strong product judgment, with opportunities to work across agent runtimes, orchestration, search, execution environments, identity and permissions, observability, and evaluations. This is software and systems engineering rather than model training: success comes from strong backend fundamentals, high agency, and the ability to turn fast-moving research capabilities into dependable production primitives. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate the shared agent harness and backend infrastructure that power long-running, high-value workflows across OpenAI and third-party products. Build reusable capabilities across search and connected context, computer use, memory, tool execution, delegation, subagents, and multi-agent orchestration. Establish the foundations agents need to operate safely in production, including secure execution environments, identity and permissions, observability, evaluations, reliability, and cost and latency effi

About the Team Our Cyber team builds AI systems and products that help trusted defenders understand and respond to cyber threats while improving the safety and reliability of frontier models in security-sensitive settings. The team works across product engineering, model training, evaluations, safeguards, and deployment to make advanced cyber capabilities useful to defenders and responsibly managed. We collaborate closely with Safety/Preparedness, Research, Security, Legal, Communications, GTM, and external partners across OpenAI’s broader cyber work. About the Role We’re looking for research and software engineers to join Codex Cyber. You’ll help define and ship security products, work with trusted defenders and customers, shape model training and access patterns, and build research and evaluation systems for assessing cyber capabilities, validating safeguards, and improving training data. This role is hands-on and cross-functional, connecting product launches, model development, safety work, and real-world security use cases. In this role, you will: Help define and execute the technical roadmap for Codex Cyber’s security products, including evaluations, safeguards, trusted-defender workflows, and deployment decisions. Work with trusted defenders, customers, and partner teams to understand cyber use cases, evaluate risk, and turn feedback into product and research priorities. Shape cyber-specific model training and access patterns, including data, evaluations, validation, and deployment criteria. Build and validate systems for measuring cyber capabilities, monitoring misuse risk, and proving safeguards work in practice. Collaborate with Safety/Preparedness, Research, Security, Legal, Communications, Go-to-Market, and external partners on company-wide cyber priorities. Translate frontier cyber research into launch-ready tools, operational playbooks, and durable infrastructure for Codex and security products. You might thrive in this role if you: Enjoy 0 -> 1 envi

About the Team The legal industry team works with law firms, in-house legal departments, legal technology companies, and other members of the legal ecosystem to understand how AI can support serious professional work. The team collaborates across Product, Research, Engineering, Design, Go-to-Market, Partnerships, Safety, Security, and Legal. We believe the strongest progress in legal will be built with the ecosystem. Our goal is to help customers and partners use OpenAI's capabilities in ways that are useful, trustworthy, and complementary to the products, expertise, and relationships that already serve the field. About the Role As a Product Manager you will help lead OpenAI's work with the legal industry. This is a high-ownership, hands-on role for someone who can turn incomplete information into clear priorities and shipped work. We’re looking for people who will spend time with customers and partners, work closely with researchers, engineers, designers, and operators, and keep complex work moving across teams. You will have meaningful ownership, but your success will depend as much on collaboration, follow-through, and judgment as on strategy. Success will depend on detailed, behind-the-scenes work in a fast-moving environment that can sometimes be chaotic. The right person will work very hard, get their hands dirty, and stay calm when the path is unclear. The work is also important and substantive: you will help shape how powerful technology is used in a consequential profession. This role is 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: Turn customer, partner, market, and model evidence into a clear product strategy and roadmap for OpenAI’s work with the legal industry—including what to build, what not to build, and where ecosystem partners should lead. Define requirements and take products from early concept through real-world use and iteration.

About the Role We're looking for a Head of Competitive Intelligence to build and lead a world-class competitive intelligence function. This person will transform market signals into strategic advantage by developing the frameworks, analysis, and insights that inform our product strategy, go-to-market approach, and executive decision-making. This is not a research role. It's a highly cross-functional strategy role that sits at the intersection of Product, GTM, Research, and Leadership. You'll establish the systems, operating cadence, and analytical rigor that help the company understand where we win, where we're vulnerable, and how the market is evolving. What You'll Do Build and own the company's competitive intelligence strategy and operating model. Develop and maintain comprehensive competitive assessments, including Harvey Ball analyses, feature matrices, product comparisons, pricing analyses, and market landscape reviews. Create executive-ready competitive insights that influence product strategy, roadmap prioritization, pricing, and investment decisions. Build best-in-class objection handling and competitive messaging for Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Partnerships. Monitor competitor product launches, model releases, acquisitions, partnerships, pricing changes, funding, and GTM motions, synthesizing complex information into clear strategic recommendations. Establish repeatable processes and tooling for collecting, validating, and distributing competitive intelligence across the company. Partner closely with Product Management to inform roadmap decisions and identify areas of strategic differentiation. Collaborate with Marketing to sharpen positioning and messaging based on competitive dynamics. Support executive leadership with board-ready competitive analyses and market briefings. Build dashboards and reporting that track competitive movements and emerging industry trends. Develop frameworks that evaluate competitors across capabilities, enterprise r

About the Role We’re looking for a Competitive Intelligence Lead, a senior individual contributor reporting to the Head of Competitive Intelligence, to help operationalize and scale the company’s competitive intelligence capability. This person will own high-priority competitive analyses, executive-ready insights, and GTM enablement that help Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and leadership understand where we win, where we’re vulnerable, and how the market is evolving. This is not a traditional research role. It is a hands-on strategy role at the intersection of Product, GTM, Research, and Leadership. You will turn competitor movements, customer feedback, product data, and market signals into clear recommendations that influence roadmap decisions, positioning, pricing, sales execution, and executive decision-making. What You'll Do Partner with the Head of Competitive Intelligence to translate the company’s CI strategy into repeatable analyses, operating rhythms, executive materials, and GTM enablement. Own high-priority competitor deep dives, market landscape reviews, pricing analyses, product comparisons, Harvey Ball assessments, feature matrices, and strategic opportunity/risk assessments. Create executive-ready insights that inform product strategy, roadmap prioritization, GTM planning, pricing, and investment decisions. Develop best-in-class competitive messaging, objection handling, battlecards, and enablement content for Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Partnerships. Monitor competitor product launches, model releases, acquisitions, partnerships, pricing changes, funding activity, customer announcements, and GTM motions. Synthesize fast-moving and complex market information into clear implications, recommendations, and decision-ready narratives. Partner closely with Product Management to identify areas of differentiation, competitive gaps, customer pain points, and emerging opportunities. Collaborate with Marketing to sharpen positioning, me

About the Team OpenAI is building AI systems that can help professionals perform complex, high-value work with greater speed, rigor, and creativity. Investment banking is one of the most demanding environments for knowledge work: bankers must synthesize fragmented information, exercise judgment under pressure, and produce precise, defensible models, analyses, and client materials. Our team works across Research, Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market to make OpenAI's models genuinely useful for these workflows. We translate real professional work into product requirements, evaluations, training signals, and repeatable customer solutions. We care not only whether a model can generate an answer, but whether it can deliver accurate, defensible work that experienced bankers can trust and use. This role is 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. About the Role We are looking for a Subject Matter Expert in Investment Banking to help define what excellent AI-assisted banking work looks like and turn that standard into better models and products. You will bring deep, current knowledge of how investment banking work is actually performed, including company and industry research, financial analysis and modeling, valuation, diligence, transaction execution, and the creation and review of client materials. You will use that expertise to design realistic tasks and evaluations, create and assess high-quality reference work, diagnose model failures, and help our technical teams improve model behavior and product experiences. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role for someone who enjoys both doing the work and explaining what makes it good. You should be comfortable moving between an Excel model, a presentation, a source document, an evaluation rubric, a product prototype, and a conversation with researchers or customers. You will help us distinguish outputs that merely look pl

About the Team The Safety Systems team is responsible for various safety work to ensure our best models can be safely deployed to the real world to benefit the society and is at the forefront of OpenAI's mission to build and deploy safe AGI, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering a culture of trust and transparency. The Model Safety Research team aims to fundamentally advance our capabilities for precisely implementing robust, safe behavior in AI models, and to leverage these advances to make OpenAI’s deployed models safe and beneficial. This requires a breadth of new ML research to address the growing set of safety challenges as AI becomes more powerful and used in more settings. Key focus areas include how to enforce nuanced safety policies without trading off helpfulness and capabilities, how to make the model robust to adversaries, how to address privacy and security risks, and how to make the model trustworthy in safety-critical domains. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher with passion for AI safety and experience in safety research. Your role will set directions for research to enable and empower safe AGI and work on research projects to make our AI systems safer, more aligned and more robust to adversarial or malicious use cases. You will play a critical role in shaping how a safe AI system should look like in the future at OpenAI, making a significant impact on our mission to build and deploy safe AGI. In this role, you will: Conduct state-of-the-art research on AI safety topics such as RLHF, adversarial training, robustness, and more. Implement new methods in OpenAI’s core model training and launch safety improvements in OpenAI’s products. Set the research directions and strategies to make our AI systems safer, more aligned and more robust. Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional team

About the Team With Codex we’re building an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively. Our team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI, bringing together research, engineering, design, and product. We iteratively build the Codex agent harness and product to get the most out of the model, and we iteratively train the model to be great at complex software engineering tasks. The Codex team is responsible for building state-of-the-art AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non-developers alike. We operate across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure; owning the full lifecycle of experimentation, deployment, and iteration on novel coding capabilities. Codex Enterprise builds the ecosystem, governance, and enterprise capabilities that help Codex spread across developers, teams, and organizations worldwide. The User Activation team owns the product experiences that help developers discover Codex, understand its capabilities, connect it to their workflows, and turn initial usage into sustained adoption across teams. About the Role As Codex adoption grows, our challenge is no longer just building powerful AI capabilities. It is helping developers and teams quickly understand how Codex fits into their work, connect it to the tools and codebases they already use, and unlock workflows that make Codex feel like a true teammate. This role will help build the full-stack product surfaces that drive activation and adoption across Codex Enterprise. You will work across onboarding, workspace setup, integrations, discovery, collaboration, usage insights, and ecosystem capabilities that help Codex spread naturally through organizations. You will partner closely with product, design, research, infrastructure, GTM, and customers to identify where users get stuck, where teams fail to adopt Codex, and what product experiences can turn curiosity int

About the team Special Situations at OpenAI is the company’s commercial engine for its most complex and consequential opportunities. The team operates where new verticals, partnership models, and customer motions must be invented, before a repeatable GTM or delivery playbook exists, by bringing together product, research, engineering, and GTM leaders around a single outcome. Many of these efforts begin as “new bets” (new verticals, new customer motions, new partnership models) and mature into repeatable ways of working that shape how OpenAI operates at scale. The team acts as a force-multiplier for the company by accelerating decision-making, aligning stakeholders, and converting complex opportunities into durable results. About the role We’re hiring a Deal Lead, Special Situations to help stand up new vertical bets, with a particular focus on partnership development in the semiconductor industry. You will identify where AI can create step-change value for semiconductor companies and ecosystem partners, originate and shape multi-project programs with FDEs and applied researchers, package them into compelling commercial proposals, and execute creative, complex partnerships while keeping executives and cross-functional teams tightly aligned. This role is especially focused on building strategic partnerships in semiconductors. You do not need to be a technical engineer, but you do need to be able to speak the language of the semiconductor industry, build credibility quickly with technical and business stakeholders, and come up the learning curve fast on industry dynamics, workflows, and constraints. A key part of the role is crafting deals with semiconductor companies that demonstrate our unique competitive advantages. To do this effectively, you will need to develop a strong point of view on the market, understand the competitive landscape, and clearly articulate OpenAI’s differentiated value and strategic advantage. Special Situations owns the overall success of each

About the Team: The Shopping team is building the future of how people discover, evaluate, and purchase products through AI. Our mission is to help users make better purchasing decisions by combining OpenAI’s models with rich product information, merchant ecosystems, and personalized experiences. We sit at the intersection of AI, commerce, search, recommendations, and consumer product experiences, partnering closely with product, engineering, research, design, and business teams to reimagine shopping for the AI era. About the Role: As a Product Manager on the Shopping team, you’ll define and build the next generation of AI-powered shopping experiences within ChatGPT. You’ll be responsible for understanding user needs, identifying opportunities to improve product discovery and decision-making, and delivering experiences that help users confidently find and purchase the products that are right for them. You’ll work across a broad set of domains, including search, recommendations, personalization, merchant and product ecosystems, and conversational commerce. This role requires strong product judgment, comfort operating in ambiguity, and the ability to balance user value, business objectives, and technical constraints. You’ll partner closely with engineers, designers, researchers, and cross-functional stakeholders to bring new shopping experiences from concept to scale. This is an opportunity to help define an entirely new category at the intersection of AI and commerce, shaping how millions of users discover and buy products in the future. This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with relocation assistance available. In this role, you will: Define and drive the product vision for shopping experiences in ChatGPT. Partner with research teams to explore how AI can help users discover, evaluate, and confidently purchase products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including design, engineering, product, and go-to-market—to build and scale AI-native shopping experi

About the Team The Workload Networking team is responsible for the collective communication stack used in our largest training jobs. Using a combination of C++ and CUDA we work on novel collective communication techniques that enable efficient training of our flagship models on our largest custom built supercomputers. The models we train are key ingredients to the AI research progress at OpenAI and the field as a whole, and we continually incorporate learnings from our entire research org into our training platform. About the Role As a Software Engineer, Networking you will design and implement custom networking collectives that are tightly integrated into our training stack. We’re looking for people who have a background in low level performance critical software. Experience with collective communication is a bonus. This role is 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: Collaborate closely with ML researchers to design and implement efficient collective operations in C++ and CUDA. Ensure that our largest training jobs take full advantage of the different network transports used in our supercomputers. Work on simulations to inform our future supercomputer network designs. You might thrive in this role if you: Have written distributed algorithms using RDMA in the past. Are comfortable writing low level performance sensitive CPU and/or GPU code. Are familiar with network simulation techniques. 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, voic

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role As a Security Engineer, Application Security you will be responsible for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities within software applications through building security tools, code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. We’re looking for people who will work closely with development teams to ensure secure coding practices are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle, preventing security risks before they emerge. You will also provide security guidance to developers and other stakeholders, fostering a culture of security awareness within the organization. The role is preferred to be based in San Francisco, Seattle or New York City but may consider remote work. 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: Perform Security Assessments : Conduct regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities in applications and software. Develop and Implement Security Tools : Design, develop, and implement security tools, frameworks, and methodologies to protect applications against security threats. Collaborate with Development Teams : Work closely with development teams to ensure security best practices are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including secure coding guidelines. Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment : Conduct threat modeling and risk

About the Team The B2B Marketing team contributes to OpenAI's broader mission of ensuring responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. We are responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive awareness, engagement, and usage for OpenAI's products and platform. We take a data-driven approach to understand our customers' needs and challenges, ensuring that their voices are reflected in product development and messaging. We then partner closely with Product, Engineering, Growth, Sales, Research, Comms, and Design teams to create a cohesive customer experience across all our channels. About the Role We're looking for a senior product marketing leader to own the strategy, narrative, and go-to-market direction for ChatGPT Work. This role will help define how professionals, teams, and organizations put AI to work on meaningful tasks, move from questions to completed work, and adopt new ways of working across their business. You will serve as the senior product marketing owner for ChatGPT Work, shaping the category, setting portfolio priorities, and connecting product innovation to customer understanding, adoption, and growth. Your scope will span the Work experience across surfaces, connected tools, and AI-powered workflows, with a clear focus on the needs of professional users, Business customers, and Enterprise organizations. This is a leadership role for someone who can set strategy, make difficult tradeoffs, and stay close enough to the work to shape the messaging, product decisions, launches, and programs that determine whether customers adopt. You will partner with Product, Growth, Sales, Research, Comms, Creative, and adjacent product marketing teams to build a coherent experience from first discovery through sustained team usage. In this role, you will: Own the ChatGPT Work product marketing strategy: Define the audience, market opportunity, positioning, competitive strategy, and go-to-market priorities across professional users, tea