Research Engineer, Data Understanding

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.

Responsibilities

• Advance how OpenAI prepares, curates, synthesizes and understands multimodal data at scale
• Work on research and production problems including synthesizing multimodal content (images, audio, and video)
• Improve noisy data pipelines and build better quality filters
• Use models to automate data preparation
• Measure whether changes in the dataset improve model performance
• Own and drive a research agenda from problem selection to impact

Requirements

• Strong track record of new or improved ML ideas through publications, projects, or applied research
• Ability to drive a research agenda independently
• Excitement for empirical, collaborative research approaches

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multimodal learning, audio, vision, video, synthetic data, or data-centric ML
• Thoughtfulness regarding AI impact, privacy, provenance, and data quality
• Experience building high-performance deep learning or large-scale data processing systems