Software Engineer, Research - Human DataActive$230K–$385K

The opportunity

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. A key part of achieving that mission is training models that deeply understand and reflect human preferences — the Human Data team is at the heart of that effort.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain robust full-stack systems for feedback collection, data: labeling, and evaluation pipelines, while maintaining high levels of security.

  • Translate experimental alignment research into scalable production: infrastructure, including inference and model training stacks.

  • Design and iterate on user-facing tools and backend services to support high-quality data workflows

  • Partner with researchers, engineers, and program leads to shape feedback loops and model interaction paradigms

  • Drive infrastructure improvements that enable faster iteration and scaling: across OpenAI’s frontier models, from internal research tooling all the way to production ChatGPT.

  • Have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems at scale

What they're looking for

  • Enjoy full-stack development with end-to-end ownership: from backend pipelines to user interfaces
  • Are motivated by high-impact collaboration with research teams and solving novel, ambiguous problems
  • Are excited to shape how AI systems learn from human preferences and reflect a broad range of human values
  • Care deeply about inclusive tooling and building systems that enhance model: safety, reliability, and usefulness
Software Engineer, Research - Human Data at OpenAI | Role Match