Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments - Finance

OpenAI
San Francisco2025-08-30Hybrid

About the job

We seek exceptional research engineers that can push the boundaries of our frontier models in the finance domain. We are looking for those who will help shape AI evaluations of financial reasoning and related capabilities, and will own individual threads within this endeavor end-to-end.

Responsibilities

Identify important model capabilities, skills, and behaviors that are crucial to financial workflows, and design methods to quantify performance in these areas

Own and pursue a research agenda to identify an important model capability (especially as it relates to financial reasoning) and build evals to measure it

Continuously refine evaluations of frontier AI models to assess the extent of frontier capabilities

Qualifications

Minimum

Have strong engineering and statistical analysis skills (with at least 2-3 years of full-time technical experience)

Be passionate about evals for real world applications and knowledge work

Be detail-oriented and thorough

Be a team player / willing to do a variety of tasks to move the team forward

Be passionate and knowledgeable about AGI/ASI measurement

Be able to operate effectively in a dynamic and extremely fast-paced research environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end

Preferred

An ability to work cross-functionally

Excellent communication skills