# Software Engineer, Research - Human Data

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $131k – $385k/yr
**Skills:** Full-Stack Development, Backend Pipelines, User Interfaces, Data Pipelines, Model Training, Inference, Kubernetes, Python, React, Postgres
**Posted:** 2026-01-23

> Build full-stack systems, tools, and infrastructure for human feedback collection, AI model alignment, and evaluation. Collaborate with researchers to scale production systems and enhance model safety in a fast-paced environment.

## Job Description

## In this role, you will:
- Build and maintain robust full-stack systems for feedback collection, data labeling, and evaluation pipelines, while maintaining high levels of security.
- Translate experimental alignment research into scalable production infrastructure, including inference and model training stacks.
- Design and iterate on user-facing tools and backend services to support high-quality data workflows.
- Partner with researchers, engineers, and program leads to shape feedback loops and model interaction paradigms.
- Drive infrastructure improvements that enable faster iteration and scaling across OpenAI’s frontier models, from internal research tooling all the way to production ChatGPT.

## You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems at scale.
- Enjoy full-stack development with end-to-end ownership — from backend pipelines to user interfaces.
- Are motivated by high-impact collaboration with research teams and solving novel, ambiguous problems.
- Are excited to shape how AI systems learn from human preferences and reflect a broad range of human values.
- Care deeply about inclusive tooling and building systems that enhance model safety, reliability, and usefulness.

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