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The average salary at OpenAI varies by position: OpenAI Member Of Technical Staff roles report a median total pay of $182,384 per year. OpenAI Software Engineer roles report a median total pay of $128,285 per year. OpenAI Data Scientist roles report a median total pay of $126,619 per year. OpenAI Senior Software Engineer roles report a median total pay of $163,528 per year. OpenAI Research Engineer roles report a median total pay of $108,921 per year. This is based on anonymous salary reports submitted to Glassdoor by OpenAI employees in the United States.

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OpenAI AI Researcher Jobs

99 results in US

Researcher, Health AI
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Trustworthy AI
San Francisco, CA
$380K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Interpretability
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+

Recruiter, AI/ML Research
San Francisco, CA
$216K - $240K (Employer provided)
30d+
Principal Recruiter, Strategic AI Talent
San Francisco, CA
$216K - $240K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Alignment
San Francisco, CA
$250K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Training
San Francisco, CA
$360K - $440K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Alignment Science
San Francisco, CA
$250K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Alignment Training
San Francisco, CA
$250K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Synthetic RL
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Alignment Oversight
San Francisco, CA
$250K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Misalignment Research
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Safety & Privacy
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Program Manager, Human Data
San Francisco, CA
$162K - $240K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Automated Red Teaming
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Safety Oversight
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats
San Francisco, CA
$293K - $405K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Full Stack (People Innovation)
Remote
$153K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Pretraining Safety
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Frontier Biological and Chemical Risks
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Technical Sourcer, Research
San Francisco, CA
$137K - $240K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, AI Safety
San Francisco, CA
$185K - $325K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Robustness & Safety Training
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Model Policy
San Francisco, CA
$207K - $295K (Employer provided)
30d+
Agentic Risk Analyst
San Francisco, CA
$288K - $425K (Employer provided)
30d+
Program Manager, Alignment
San Francisco, CA
$162K - $240K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Platform Systems
San Francisco, CA
$310K - $460K (Employer provided)
30d+
Research Engineer/Scientist - Human Alignment, Consumer Devices
San Francisco, CA
$380K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Remote
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Product Policy, Biosecurity Policy Manager
San Francisco, CA
$261K - $290K (Employer provided)
30d+
Program Manager, Foundations Data and Operations
San Francisco, CA
$162K - $240K (Employer provided)
30d+
Technical Program Manager, Data Acquisition
San Francisco, CA
$257K - $335K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $405K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $380K (Employer provided)
30d+
Machine Learning Engineer, Integrity
San Francisco, CA
$266K - $555K (Employer provided)
30d+
Fullstack Engineer, Safety Engineering
San Francisco, CA
$210K - $325K (Employer provided)
30d+
Security Engineer, Application Security
Seattle, WA
$234K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+

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