Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal Perception and Authentication

About the Team

The Future of Computing Research team is an applied research team within OpenAIs Consumer Devices group. We study how AI systems perceive people and their surroundings and we turn that research into capabilities for future products.

Our work spans machine learning sensing and hardware with a focus on building systems that work beyond controlled environments.

About the Role

Were looking for a machine learning engineer to help shape how future AI systems understand the physical world and the people in it. The role focuses on multimodal perception and authentication bringing together signals from cameras microphones and other sensors.

Youll work with specialized perception models and larger multimodal models and partner with hardware firmware software and product teams to bring new research into real-world systems.

This role is based in San Francisco. We work in the office three days per week and offer relocation assistance.

In this role you will:

• Research and develop multimodal perception and authentication methods across visual audio and other sensing signals.

• Explore how specialized perception models and larger multimodal models can work together.

• Design data training and evaluation approaches that improve performance in real-world conditions.

• Study model behavior robustness and failure modes across sensing data and deployment environments.

• Integrate and validate new capabilities in real-time or resource-constrained systems.

• Work with hardware firmware software and product teams to turn research into working systems.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a strong background in computer vision audio or speech machine learning multimodal learning or sensing.

• Have experience developing specialized machine learning models larger multimodal models or both.

• Have brought research ideas into practical systems prototypes or products.

• Know how to design experiments build evaluations and investigate model behavior.

• Have worked with sensing hardware real-time systems or other deployment constraints.

• Are proficient in Python and PyTorch and comfortable with C or systems integration.

• Have experience with authentication biometrics or other privacy-sensitive applications.

• Enjoy working across disciplines on research problems that are still taking shape.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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