Senior Research Engineer/Scientist - On-Device Transformer Models

OpenAI
San Francisco, CA, USA2026-01-23Hybrid

About the job

As a Research Engineer/Scientist on the Future of Computing Research team, you will work together with both the best ML researchers in the world and the greatest design talent of our generation to push the frontier of model capabilities.

Responsibilities

- Train and evaluate multimodal SoTA models along axis that are important to our vision for future devices.

- Develop novel architectures that improve model performance when scaling the models themselves is not an option.

- Run through the necessary walls to take nascent research capabilities and turn them into capabilities we can build on top of.

Qualifications

Minimum

- Have a research background related to developing on-device transformer models.

- Love performance optimization and working with GPU kernel engineers (but you do not need CUDA experience yourself).

- Do rigorous science (rather than vibes based). We need confidence in the experiments we run to move quickly.

- Have already spent time in the weeds teaching models to speak and perceive.

Preferred

- Have a research background related to developing on-device transformer models.

- Love performance optimization and working with GPU kernel engineers (but you do not need CUDA experience yourself).

- Do rigorous science (rather than vibes based). We need confidence in the experiments we run to move quickly.

- Have already spent time in the weeds teaching models to speak and perceive.