Software Engineer, Human Data - OpenAI

About the Team

OpenAI's Human Data Team creates custom data solutions driving groundbreaking research. Our work enhances and evaluates our flagship models and products like ChatGPT, GPT-4o, and Sora, and contributes to safety initiatives through collaboration with our Preparedness and Safety Systems teams.

As a software team directly within OpenAI's research organization, our team takes projects from initial research ideation through to execution and human data collection, ensuring seamless integration and rapid iteration. By working closely with researchers and AI trainers, we land direct impact in OpenAI's end products, and influence the frontier of model research.

We work with AI trainers to gather specialized data for training and evaluating our models across modalities such as video, audio, text, and tool actions. Our goal is to develop scalable methods and tools and platforms to generate and evaluate high quality data from both synthetic sources and human experts in various fields, including mathematics, sciences, creative writing, programming, art, and safety. We leverage OpenAI models to improve and streamline our data collection and quality processes.

About the Role

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Build and optimize data pipelines for sourcing, curating, and processing human-generated data that enhances model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation.

• Develop tools and infrastructure that enable scalable data collection, annotation, and quality control processes, working closely with cross-functional teams in research, product, and operations.

• Collaborate with research teams across all of OpenAI to ensure the data used improves model alignment, reduces harmful outputs, and upholds safety standards.

• Innovate on model evaluation techniques, leveraging human feedback and synthetic data to assess and improve the capabilities of OpenAI’s models.

• Contribute to products like ChatGPT and Sora, directly impacting user experiences by ensuring models are trained with the highest-quality human data.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.

• 3+ years of industry experience in software development.

• Experience navigating ambiguous and cross functional environments

• Willingness and enthusiasm for trying new approaches and technologies.

• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

About OpenAI

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. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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