# Model Designer

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $266k – $295k/yr
**Skills:** Model Design, Ai Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Writing, Creativity, Experimentation, Product Sense, Data Collection, Technical Intuition
**Posted:** 2026-06-26

> Designs model behavior and human-AI interactions, collaborating with researchers and PMs to improve model responses and user experience. Requires strong taste, writing, and technical intuition.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with researchers to understand, predict, and design model behavior.
- Partner with product managers and designers across the company to ensure a cohesive voice and approach.
- Proactively identify ways to improve our models based on product sense, user feedback, quantitative insights, and the research roadmap.
- Come up with creative strategies for collecting high-quality data.
- Do whatever needs to be done to make our models better.

## Requirements
- Exceptional taste, creativity, and writing skills to craft responses that delight users.
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to build relationships, define problems, and make progress in new environments.
- Love of experimentation and willingness to test and reject new ideas.
- High levels of empathy and self-awareness.
- Ability to tackle profound and philosophical questions while driving towards clarity.
- Technical intuition to learn how changes in data can affect overall model behavior.

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