Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $295K - $445K. Posted on Aug 5, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re hiring research scientists, research engineers, and AI systems engineers to work on automating research at OpenAI. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. In this role, you will: - 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…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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