# Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** AI Research
**Salary:** $295k – $445k/yr
**Skills:** llm training, Model Evaluation, agent systems, synthetic data, Distributed Systems, research infrastructure, Data Pipelines, Reinforcement Learning, Model Training, Python, ai safety
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Develop AI systems that automate and accelerate research by designing evaluations, building research agents and orchestration infrastructure, and improving model capabilities through training and synthetic data. The role suits strong research or engineering generalists experienced with LLMs, evaluations, agents, infrastructure, or distributed systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design evaluations for research judgment, hypothesis generation and testing, and long-horizon experiment execution.
- Turn real research workflows and model failures into data and evaluation flywheels.
- Improve model research capabilities through agent harnesses, synthetic data, reinforcement-learning environments, and model training.
- Build and maintain safe, reliable integrations between models and research infrastructure.
- Develop research agents, experiment-orchestration systems, and sandboxed runtimes for real research workflows.
- Create metrics and economic models to understand effects on research productivity, model capabilities, and the safety of internal deployments.

## Requirements
- Research or engineering experience across LLM training, model evaluations, agent systems, synthetic data, research infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong generalist ability to move between open-ended research and practical implementation.
- Ability to collaborate across systems, data, model training, evaluations, and research teams.
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines, tooling, and infrastructure for emerging AI capabilities.
- Comfort working on ambiguous problems without established playbooks.
- Rigorous approach to scientific quality, research judgment, safety, privacy, reliability, performance, and scale.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary range: **$295,000–$445,000**.

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