# Research Engineer/Research Scientist

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $295k – $555k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Machine Learning, Ml Engineering, Model Evaluation, Research, Python, Deep Learning, Model Training, Debugging Ml Codebases, Evaluation Frameworks, Tool-Use
**Posted:** 2026-06-25

> Research Engineer/Scientist improving model capabilities for personalized AI experiences. Focus on tool-use, instruction following, evaluations, and training improvements. Requires strong ML engineering and research experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance
- Collaborate closely with research and product teams to optimize models for customers
- Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements
- Design, implement, test, and debug code across the research stack

## Requirements
- Strong ML engineering skills and research experience
- Deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications
- Working knowledge of relevant models and building evaluations for model capability improvement
- Comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic and technically complex environment

## Nice-to-Haves
- Passion for creative, product-driven research

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