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Software Engineer, Core Science

OpenAI - San Francisco, California, United States

Posted May 22, 2026

Benefits

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Salary
$293K-$385K From the posting source
401(k) match
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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
$116,543 U.S. median for this role
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

191% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function
Engineering From the posting source
Seniority
Mid From the posting source

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About this role

Software Engineer, Core Science San Francisco, California, United States About the Team The Core Science team is a new vertical within Codex focused on making AI an exceptional collaborator for scientific discovery. The team is building AI-native tooling and infrastructure for scientists across paper writing, literature search, data analysis, simulations, and computational experimentation. Our mission is to help researchers move faster - accelerate breakthroughs in math, physics, biology, chemistry, bioengineering, and adjacent scientific domains through powerful AI-assisted workflows. About the Role As a Software Engineer, Core Science, you will help design and build the platforms, products, and infrastructure powering AI-native scientific research workflows inside Codex. We're looking for people who are excited about building ambitious 0→1 systems at the intersection of AI, engineering, and scientific discovery. This role spans both backend and full-stack engineering, with opportunities to work closely with researchers, applied scientists, and product teams to define entirely new experiences for scientific exploration and experimentation. This role owns systems end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to evaluation, launch, and production operations, with a strong bias for both quality and velocity. You will build across backend services, data and orchestration pipelines, model-powered workflows, and user-facing experiences, making thoughtful trade-offs as scientific use cases and AI capabilities rapidly evolve. Success in this role means turning ambitious, ambiguous ideas into reliable products that researchers can use to analyze data, run simulations, explore evidence, and accelerate scientific discovery. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3

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