Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI

The Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) team works across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure to build AI systems that accelerate and ultimately conduct high-quality research at OpenAI. We're hiring research scientists, research engineers, and AI systems engineers to work on automating research at OpenAI.

Responsibilities

Design evaluations for research judgment, hypothesis generation and testing, and long-horizon experiment execution; Turn real research workflows and model failures into data and evaluation flywheels; Improve model research capabilities through agent harnesses, synthetic data, RL environments, and model training; Build and maintain safe, reliable integrations between our models and OpenAI's research infrastructure; Develop research agents, experiment-orchestration systems, and sandboxed runtimes that support real research workflows; Create metrics and economic models to understand RSI's current and future effects on research productivity, model capabilities, and the safety of internal deployments

Requirements

Research or engineering experience across LLM training, model evaluations, agent systems, synthetic data, research infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems; Strong generalist who can move between open-ended research and practical implementation, turning ambiguous problems into clear results; Collaborate effectively across the full stack, including systems, data, model training, evaluations, and other research teams; Comfortable building and maintaining the data pipelines, tooling, and infrastructure needed to support emerging AI capabilities; Comfortable working on problems without clear definitions or established playbooks; Think rigorously about scientific quality, research taste, safety, privacy, reliability, performance, and scale; Excited about using increasingly capable AI systems to accelerate meaningful research