Research Engineer Salary at OpenAI

Average Base Salary

196K USD

Median Base Salary

196K USD

Base Salary Range

67 - 490K USD

Base Salary Relative Frequency Distribution

Top 2 best-paid Research Engineer jobs at OpenAI

OpenAI · San Francisco
Distributed Training Engineer, Sora
293K-490K
293K-490K
725d
OpenAI · San Francisco
Software Engineer Systems Research Internship, Applied Emerging Talent (Summer 2026)
67-67
67-67
7d

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