Research Engineer, Codex
OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States
Posted August 5, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits humanity. The company prioritizes safety and human needs in its development process, emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion to align with its mission of solving global challenges through AI. OpenAI's unique approach sets it apart by placing ethical considerations and societal impact at the forefront of its operations.
Job Description
The Codex team at OpenAI is seeking a Research Engineer to advance the capabilities, performance, and reliability of AI coding models. This role involves research, experimentation, and system optimization, collaborating with researchers and engineers to improve code generation for millions of users. The ideal candidate will combine deep curiosity, strong technical fundamentals, and a bias toward impact, exploring the boundaries of large language models and contributing to real-world products like ChatGPT.
Requirements
- Are excited to explore and push the boundaries of large language models, especially in the domain of software reasoning and code generation.
- Have strong software engineering skills and enjoy quickly turning ideas into working prototypes.
- Think holistically about performance, balancing speed, cost, and user experience.
- Bring creativity and rigor to open-ended research problems and thrive in highly iterative, ambiguous environments.
- Have experience operating across both ML systems and cloud infrastructure.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Hybrid work model
