RE/RS, Data Understanding - Foundations at OpenAI
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: Remote / Zurich, Switzerland
- Employment type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Technologies: OpenAI
About the role
About The Team The Data Understanding team is responsible for creating the high quality datasets and their quantized representation for OpenAI. This includes synthesizing data, building VQ representations, and processing, filtering, deduplication, quality control, and tokenization so it can be used effectively in big model training runs. About The Role We're looking to advance how OpenAI builds and understands pretraining data at scale. You'll treat data quality and curation as core research problems: developing new methods to select, combine, and transform data; creating datasets that improve model capabilities; and designing rigorous experiments to understand how data choices and interventions affect model learning and downstream behavior.…
Apply on OpenAI's official careers page: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/5d1a6c05-e18b-43a2-8808-6498929ac253