Model Designer

Details

The Core Models team shapes how our models interact with people. We view the model as the product itself, aiming for intuitive experiences that exceed user expectations and feel like magic.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with researchers to understand, predict, and design model behavior.
• Partner with product managers and designers across the company to ensure a cohesive voice and approach.
• Proactively identify ways to improve models based on product sense, user feedback, quantitative insights, and the research roadmap.
• Come up with creative strategies for collecting high-quality data.
• Do whatever needs to be done to make models better.

Requirements / Qualities

• Exceptional taste, creativity, and writing skills, allowing you to craft responses that delight users.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: able to build relationships, define problems, and make progress in unfamiliar environments.
• Strong experimentation mindset: willing to test and reject ideas when results don't pan out.
• High levels of empathy and self-awareness to serve diverse users.
• Enjoy tackling profound and philosophical questions while driving toward clarity.
• Demonstrate technical intuition to learn how changes in data can affect overall model behavior.
• Ability to collaborate closely with researchers, product managers, and designers.

About the Team / Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Core Models team focuses on how models interact with people and on defining new human–AI interaction paradigms.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law. Candidates based in San Francisco and elsewhere should review OpenAI's policies linked in the original posting.

Benefits

• Base pay in the listed range; total compensation may include equity and performance-related bonuses.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit).
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays and multiple coordinated company office closures each year, plus paid sick or safe time as required by law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.