# Research Engineer

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** AI Research
**Salary:** $250k – $445k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, JAX, Scaling Ml Systems, High-Performance Computing
**Posted:** 2025-04-05

> Builds advanced AI systems using massive-scale distributed machine learning to achieve breakthrough performance. Requires strong programming skills and experience with large distributed systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build AI systems that perform previously impossible tasks or achieve unprecedented performance levels.
- Design, implement, and improve massive-scale distributed machine learning systems.
- Write bug-free machine learning code.
- Build the science behind algorithms employed.
- Work in large distributed systems.

## Requirements
- Strong programming skills.
- Experience working in large distributed systems.
- Excited about OpenAI’s approach to research.

## Nice to Have
- Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology.
- Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms.

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