Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $295K - $445K. Posted on May 14, 2025, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Research Engineer/Research Scientist at OpenAI, you will advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods. Your work will sit at the heart of training intelligent, aligned, and general-purpose agents, including the systems that power various models. We’re looking for people who have a background in reinforcement learning research, are able to iterate quickly, and are…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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