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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 Research Engineer Jobs

13 results in US

Research Engineer
San Francisco, CA
$250K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering
San Francisco, CA
$293K - $585K (Employer provided)
30d+
Research Engineer, Codex
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+

Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning
San Francisco, CA
$295K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Research Engineer, Privacy
San Francisco, CA
$380K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
ML Research Engineer - Hardware Codesign
San Francisco, CA
$185K - $455K (Employer provided)
30d+
Research Engineer/Scientist - Human Alignment, Consumer Devices
San Francisco, CA
$380K - $445K (Employer provided)
30d+
Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments
San Francisco, CA
$205K - $380K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Research Developer Productivity
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $325K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Research - Human Data
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Research
San Francisco, CA
$250K - $380K (Employer provided)
30d+
Data Scientist, Financial Engineering
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity
San Francisco, CA
$198K - $425K (Employer provided)
30d+

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