Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $380K - $500K. Posted on Oct 28, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for an exceptional, hands-on researcher to turn difficult-to-define signals of long-term flourishing into measurable improvements in model behavior. You’ll help set research direction, build what is needed to test your ideas, and drive successful work into the models and products we ship. We’re especially interested in researchers with deep experience improving frontier models through pretraining or…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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