Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health

About the Team

The Health team, within OpenAI’s broader Personal AGI organization, has a mission to ensure AGI improves health for all humanity.

Improving human health will be one of the defining impacts of AGI. Hundreds of millions of people already turn to ChatGPT for questions about their health and millions of clinicians use it weekly to support care delivery. Increasingly capable models create an opportunity to make high-quality medical intelligence more accessible across patients and clinicians—raising the floor of human health—and accelerate the new capabilities and scientific advances that raise the ceiling of human health.

Our job is to make those benefits real. We work across the full model stack—pretraining, midtraining, reinforcement learning, post-training, evaluations, harnessing, and deployment—and connect that research to the patients, clinicians, and real-world outcomes we aim to improve.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Care deeply about using increasingly capable AI to improve human health, and take seriously the responsibility of deploying it safely.
• Have an unusually strong track record in machine learning or AI research, with the depth to push at least one important area forward: pretraining, reinforcement learning / post-training, evals (not necessarily specific to health); or substantial depth in a relevant frontier health / biomedical AI problem.
• Are a hands-on builder: you can design experiments, write and debug code, work directly with data and training infrastructure, and move quickly from an idea to evidence.
• Have strong research taste and can distinguish an important problem or a promising approach from an interesting one.
• Own ambiguous problems end to end, and are willing to learn whatever is missing to get the job done.
• Stay goal-oriented rather than method-oriented, and don’t shy away from unglamorous work if it is the highest-leverage path to impact.
• Care about whether a capability will scale, generalize, and make it into the real world—not just whether it can be shown in a paper or prototype.
• Enjoy working with low-ego, ambitious people across research, engineering, medicine, and product.
• Bonus: Experience with health AI, longitudinal health data, or clinical research.

If you want your work to help make medical intelligence widely accessible—and to work on some of the most important frontier problems at the intersection of AI, science, and human health—we’d love to hear from you.

About OpenAI

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