About the Team OpenAI’s Pricing team sits at the center of product, go-to-market, finance, and strategy. We define how OpenAI packages, prices, and scales access to our products across consumer, SMB, and enterprise customers, turning deeply technical product usage and market signal into company-level decisions. We’re looking for a senior Data Scientist to be the first dedicated data science hire on the Pricing team. This is a rare zero-to-one role with direct exposure to OpenAI’s CFO, Head of Pricing, and senior leaders across Product and GTM. You will help build the analytical foundation for pricing at OpenAI, shape executive decisions, and define what excellent pricing data science looks like. About the Role As a founding Data Scientist for Pricing, you will design the analyses, models, experiments, and decision frameworks that guide pricing strategy across OpenAI’s business. You’ll work side-by-side with the CFO, Head of Pricing, and senior leaders across Product and GTM on ambiguous, high-leverage questions where simple reporting is not enough, translating customer behavior, product usage, revenue outcomes, and market dynamics into clear recommendations. This role combines hands-on technical depth with executive-ready storytelling. You should be excited to build from first principles, operate with high independence, and influence decisions that shape how OpenAI grows and serves customers around the world. In This Role, You Will Serve as a senior analytical partner to the CFO, Head of Pricing, Product, and GTM leaders on pricing and monetization decisions. Build the analytical foundation for pricing across consumer, SMB, and enterprise segments, from exploratory analysis to repeatable decision systems. Design and execute analyses that connect customer behavior, product usage, conversion, retention, revenue outcomes, and pricing strategy. Develop models, algorithms, experiments, and decision frameworks for complex pricing, packaging, discounting, and willingness-t
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About the Team The Personal AGI team seeks to empower all of humanity to benefit from frontier intelligence in whatever way they choose. We are responsible for training models to deploy to millions of users globally via ChatGPT, the API, and future products. We aim to evolve ChatGPT from a chatbot to an infinitely capable and personalized superassistant supporting human flourishing. We work on defining, measuring, and improving capabilities across the training stack. Our focus areas include but are not limited to model behavior, personalization, safety, factuality, instruction following, personality, interactivity, multilingual fluency, world interaction, and bringing agents to everyone. We chart the course for what to strive towards. We partner closely with research and product teams across the company ensuring that our models are safe, efficient, and reliable. About the Role You’ll work as a Research Engineer / Scientist on the North Stars team within the broader Personal AGI research org. You will work on bringing the next generation of AI-enabled experiences to all of humanity by closing the capability overhang between power users and the average consumer, including areas like tool-use, feature discovery, connectors, and instruction following. You will think deeply about the current bottlenecks in model behavior, translate these insights into robust evals, training data, reward signals, and model and harness improvements. We're looking for individuals with strong ML engineering skills and research experience passionate about creative, product-driven research. 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: Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance. Collaborate closely with the other research and product teams, allowing customers to optimize their own models. Build robust evaluations for tracking modelin
About the Team The Personalization-Memory team, within OpenAI's broader Personal AGI organization, is focused on developing agents that can learn from prior interactions in order to become more helpful and efficient over time. We build general-purpose memory and personalization capabilities that transfer across ChatGPT and other agentic products, and we collaborate with applied engineering on the product surfaces that allow users to interact with memory. About the Role As a Research Engineer / Research Scientist on the Personalization-Memory team, you will research and develop improvements to memory usage and personalization in OpenAI's frontier models. Our team works on reinforcement learning, dataset creation, evaluations, and other post-training methods. We partner closely with research and product teams across the company to realize the vision of a truly personalized ChatGPT. We're looking for individuals who have a background in frontier model post-training, are able to iterate quickly, and who are passionate about product-driven research. 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: Own and pursue a research agenda for improving memory use and personalization in frontier models. Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements. Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack. Collaborate closely with the research and product teams to influence the shape of technical solutions in the product. You might thrive in this role if you: Are passionate about personalization and building personalized assistants. Have experience working with user signals and human data to turn feedback into reliable signals for training and evaluation. Have a deep understanding of frontier model post-training and machine learning applications. Value principled approaches and research craftsmanship. Are comfortable diving into a lar
About the Team The Proactivity Research team, within OpenAI’s broader Personal AGI team, is focused on making our models in ChatGPT and future potential products proactive in ways that are truly useful. We're laying the technical foundations for AI that can anticipate what users need in real time, adapt as their goals and preferences shift, and build a deeper, evolving understanding of the person it's helping. About the Role As a Research Engineer / Scientist, you will research and develop improvements to our models’ personalization and agentic capabilities. Our team works on reinforcement learning, dataset creation, evaluations, and other post-training methods. We partner closely with research and product teams across the company to realize the vision of a highly personalized, collaborative, and proactive assistant. We're looking for individuals with strong ML engineering skills and research experience, especially with novel and highly capable models. An ideal candidate is passionate about product-driven research. 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: Own and pursue a research agenda to improve the proactivity and ability of our models to further user goals. Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements. Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack. Collaborate closely with the other research and product teams to influence the shape of technical solutions in the product You might thrive in this role if you: Have a deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications. Have a working knowledge of LLM post-training and evaluation approaches Are passionate about, or have experience thinking about, personalization and enabling users to achieve their goals Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug. Thrive in a dynamic and technically complex environment. About OpenAI
About the Team The Personal AGI team is responsible for training and improving pre-trained models to be deployed into ChatGPT, the API, and potential future products. The team partners closely with research and product teams across the company, and conducts research as a final step to prepare for real world deployment to millions of users, ensuring that our models are safe, efficient, and reliable. About the Role As a Research Engineer / Scientist, you will research and develop improvements to our models. Our team works in research areas combining reinforcement learning and products. We're looking for individuals with strong ML engineering skills and research experience, especially with novel and highly capable models. An ideal candidate is passionate about product-driven research. 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: Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance. Collaborate closely with the other research and product teams, allowing customers to optimize their own models. Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements. Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack. You might thrive in this role if you: Have a deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications. Have a working knowledge of relevant models, and building evaluations for model capability improvement. Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug. Thrive in a dynamic and technically complex environment. 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
About the Team The RL and Reasoning team drives the core reasoning paradigm and has created groundbreaking innovations such as o1 and o3. They focus on pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning research, building next-generation generative models, and deploying them at scale. About the Role As a Research Engineer/Research Scientist at OpenAI, you will advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods. Your work will sit at the heart of training intelligent, aligned, and general-purpose agents, including the systems that power various models. We’re looking for people who have a background in reinforcement learning research, are able to iterate quickly, and are proficient at coding. 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. You might thrive in this role if: You love being on the cutting edge of RL and language model research. You’re a self-starter who takes initiative and ownership of ideas, driving them to completion. You value principled approaches, simple experiments in tightly-controlled settings, and reaching trustworthy conclusions which stand the test of time. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically complex environment where rapid iteration is key. You’re comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug and improve it. You have a deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications. 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 ful
About the Team The Strategic Finance team at OpenAI plays a critical role in shaping the company’s long-term trajectory. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to inform high-stakes decisions through rigorous data science and economic modeling. As part of our expanding Data Science function, we’re building a best-in-class Forecasting capability to drive real-time, data-driven decision-making across user growth, revenue, compute infrastructure, and more. We are developing scalable forecasting infrastructure to help us understand and anticipate business dynamics in an increasingly complex, usage-based world. Our models are foundational to planning, pricing, operational efficiency, and growth strategy - supporting key investment decisions and unlocking OpenAI’s full potential. About the Role We’re looking for a senior Machine Learning Data Scientist to lead our forecasting initiatives. You’ll be one of the founding members of the Forecasting pillar within Strategic Finance Data Science, responsible for building and scaling robust, interpretable, and production-ready forecasting systems. Your models will power critical business decisions by predicting core metrics such as DAU/WAU, revenue, LTV, compute consumption, and profitability. This is a highly cross-functional role, requiring technical excellence, strong product intuition, and business acumen. You’ll collaborate with product managers, researchers, engineers, and finance leaders to operationalize forecasting insights, influence company-wide strategy, and build foundational forecasting capabilities at OpenAI. 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: Build statistical and machine learning models to solve forecasting needs across product, finance, infrastructure, and GTM domains. Own the end-to-end modeling lifecycle , including scoping, feature engineerin
About the Team The Personalization-Memory team, within OpenAI's broader Personal AGI organization, is focused on developing agents that can learn from prior interactions in order to become more helpful and efficient over time. We build general-purpose memory and personalization capabilities that transfer across ChatGPT and other agentic products, and we collaborate with applied engineering on the product surfaces that allow users to interact with memory. About the Role As a Research Engineer / Research Scientist on the Personalization-Memory team, your work will span memory architecture, post-training, and developing long-horizon tasks for training and evaluations. We're looking for individuals who have a background in reinforcement learning research, are able to iterate quickly, and who can convert scientific rigor and long-term research into realized product impact. 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: Own and pursue a research agenda for improving long-horizon memory and personalization in frontier models. Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements. Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack. Collaborate closely with the research and product teams to influence the shape of technical solutions in the product. You might thrive in this role if you: Love being on the cutting edge of RL and frontier model research. Value principled approaches and research craftsmanship. Are passionate about long-horizon tasks, memory, and turning your research into product impact. Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug. Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically complex environment. 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 syst
Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity As an Applied Scientist specializing in Small Language Models and AI Training, you will lead research and development efforts focused on building efficient, high-performance language models tailored for practical applications. You will work closely with research, engineering, and product teams to advance model training techniques, optimize architectures, and scale AI solutions. Your work will directly contribute to AI systems that are safe, interpretable, and impactful across diverse usage scenarios. What You’ll Do Lead research and development of novel training methodologies and architectures for small and efficient language models. Design, implement, and evaluate model training experiments to improve performance, robustness, and generalization of language models. Collaborate closely with research scientists and engineers on scalable training pipelines and model deployment strategies. Develop techniques for model compression, fine-tuning, and domain adaptation to optimize models for real-world applications. Ensure AI safety, fairness, and alignment principles are integrated into model training processes and evaluat
What you’ll do Partner with medical image reconstruction scientists / engineers to build ML components that improve reconstruction quality, speed, robustness, or quantitative accuracy. Define training/evaluation pipelines, datasets, and metrics that map to user needs and design requirements. Productionize models: inference performance, reproducibility, monitoring for drift/regressions, and safe fallbacks. Collaborate on hybrid algorithms, incorporating physics and learned priors, denoisers, learned regularizers, and quality estimation. Help build tooling for rapid experimentation as well as rigorous verification of algorithm changes. What we’re looking for Strong applied ML experience plus comfort with signal processing / imaging or adjacent domains. Ability to move fluidly between research prototypes and production-quality systems. Strong evaluation discipline: metrics, ablations, data leakage avoidance, and reproducibility. A demonstrated track record of applying ML to physics-based or inverse problems (i.e., shipped projects, a portfolio, or publications.) Useful experience ML for imaging/inverse problems (or adjacent) with strong evaluation discipline and comfort with GPU performance constraints. Pragmatic production mindset: reproducible training/inference, regression testing, and safe deployment in high-stakes contexts. A background in computational physics or scientific computing. Leverage ML-based methods such as PiNNs and Neural Operators to solve partial differential equations arising in ultrasound simulation and imaging. Experience in Agentic-SciML is a plus. Hands-on experience with data curation for ML: building datasets from messy, real-world sources, defining ground truth, and managing labeling or simulation pipelines. Background in data assimilation: combining observations with physics-based models (Kalman filtering, variational methods, ensemble approaches, or learned variants).
About the Team Life sciences is one of the clearest areas where advances in intelligence can meaningfully benefit the world at large. The OpenAI Life Sciences team works at the intersection of advancing frontier life sciences model capabilities and building products to help scientists accelerate their research and leverage the full potential of AI for scientific work. Rosalind Workbench brings together the scientific tools, data sources, interactive biology file viewers and core life sciences workflows into a central environment to help scientists investigate questions, design experiments, analyze results, and advance discovery. Rosalind Workbench can be used with any OpenAI model, including GPT-Rosalind--our dedicated life sciences model, which combines frontier reasoning with specialized tool orchestration across medicinal chemistry, genomics, wet-lab assistance, and other scientific applications. Our long term vision is for teams of agents to work together across these domains, giving researchers access to broader expertise and the ability to pursue more ambitious scientific questions. About the Role We’re looking for a Product Manager to shape Rosalind Workbench for life sciences. You will own product strategy and execution, working directly with researchers in academic labs, biotech, and pharma to understand where AI can meaningfully improve their work. You’ll partner with engineering, research, design, and customer-facing teams to turn emerging capabilities into intuitive products that scientists return to. This role calls for strong product judgment, depth in life sciences, and the ability to move from an ambiguous research problem to a focused, shippable experience. In this role, you will have the opportunity to define the future of AI guided scientific discovery and build the capabilities and tools that help advance the scientific frontier for researchers and help increase the accessibility of model intelligence for scientific use. This is a chance to shape
About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made up of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who work together to bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our Sales team helps customers understand how highly capable AI can transform their businesses. As an Account Director, Large Enterprise, you’ll work with some of our largest accounts across a variety of industries, winning new business and expanding adoption within existing customers. This role combines technical understanding, executive engagement, and ownership of complex enterprise sales. You’ll create demand, develop opportunities, and lead deals from initial engagement through negotiation, deployment, and expansion. You’ll help executives move from curiosity about AI to a clear understanding of how it can change the way their businesses operate—and build a practical path to realizing that value. We’re looking for someone with a hunter mentality who takes initiative and creates momentum. You’re comfortable opening doors, building relationships across business units, and bringing commercial and technical stakeholders together around an enterprise transformation strategy. Success means both winning business and helping customers turn their commitments into sustained adoption and consumption. This role can be based in our San Francisco, New York City or Seattle offices. We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, yo
About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Startups are creating many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications. The Startup Go To Market team’s mission is to help startups harness the power of AI models to drive these advances. You will lead a team that supports startups building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, providing access to OpenAI teams and expertise to support their growth. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and strategy. This leadership role will be responsible for driving and implementing the sales strategy within our startups segment, recruiting and leading a team of technical sales professionals, and achieving successful deployments with startup customers. The ideal candidate will possess significant sales leadership experience and a comprehensive understanding of AI technologies. This leader will have the capability to adapt to a complex and fast-changing technology environment. Responsibilities will include customer acquisition, account management, owning executive relationships, and more. This individual will need to be a proven leader who can effectively collaborate cross-functionally with product, marketing, developer relations, operations, and core GTM teams, while guiding and mentoring a sales team towards achieving business objectives. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work m
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing together world-class scientists, engineers, and business leaders to translate frontier research into real-world impact. Within OpenAI, the Go-to-Market organization helps customers understand, adopt, and scale our products across their businesses. The team includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, Partnerships, and Strategic Pursuits professionals who work together to bring the benefits of AI to organizations globally. About the Role At OpenAI, we're building toward an agent-first world where AI systems reason, act, transact, and create alongside people and businesses. As agents become a primary interface for work, the Strategic Pursuits Team leads our most complex enterprise opportunities and helps define how customers adopt OpenAI at scale. We're seeking a Strategic Pursuits Lead to shape and close high-impact enterprise opportunities across Frontier, AI Solutions, ChatGPT, Codex, API, and emerging offerings. This person partners with customers, account teams, Product, FDE, Legal, Finance, GTM, and executives to turn ambiguous demand into a clear vision, business case, commercial structure, delivery path, and repeatable GTM motion. This is a builder role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, can operate without a playbook, and is energized by creating the playbook while running the pursuit. The right person brings executive presence, commercial judgment, product intuition, and the ability to make messy work executable. This role can be based in our San Francisco or Seattle offices. We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S. 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: Lead strategic pursuits from early qualification through customer alignment, proposal, commercial structure, and transition in
About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role can be based in our San Francisco, New York, or Seattle offices. We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S. 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'll: Manage a portfolio of customer accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan Support your customer accounts from initial engagement to successful deployment, expansion, and through to renewal Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects Own a revenue target Manage revenue forecasts Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and
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