Research Scientist, 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 builds and understands pretraining data at scale
• Treat data quality and curation as core research problems
• Develop new methods to select, combine, and transform data
• Create datasets that improve model capabilities
• Design rigorous experiments to understand how data choices affect model learning and downstream behavior
• Translate successful research into scalable data processing pipelines

Requirements

• Strong track record of new or improved ML ideas through publications, projects, or applied research
• Ability to own and drive a research agenda from problem selection to impact
• Excitement for empirical, collaborative research approaches

Preferred Qualifications

• Thoughtfulness about AI’s impact, including privacy, provenance, and data quality
• Experience building high-performance deep learning or large-scale data processing systems