At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco
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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About the role
- The OpenAI Life Sciences team works at the intersection of advancing frontier life sciences model capabilities and building products to help scientists accelerate their research.
- This role involves shaping Rosalind Workbench for life sciences, owning product strategy and execution, and working directly with researchers in academic labs, biotech, and pharma.
Responsibilities
- Shape Rosalind Workbench’s strategy and roadmap, prioritizing high-impact workflows across discovery biology, verification, and CRO management.
- Partner with engineering, research, and design to turn scientific data, tools, and models into intuitive workflows with the depth and control experts need.
- Prototype with Codex, Rosalind Workbench, and GPT-Rosalind to validate ideas with scientists before committing engineering time.
- Partner with Safeguards, Preparedness, Product Policy, and go-to-market teams to build responsible access to scientific capabilities into researcher onboarding and product workflows.
- Drive enterprise readiness for pharma and biotech, spanning data protection, admin controls, research-system integrations, and security, compliance, and procurement requirements.
- Own execution from discovery through launch and iteration, translating user needs and technical constraints into clear requirements and driving adoption with go-to-market partners.
- Build scientific rigor into the experience through reproducible analyses, traceable evidence, visible uncertainty, and scientist review.
- Use product data, researcher feedback, and market insight to improve scientific utility, reliability, adoption, and business impact.
Requirements
- Track record of shipping products that solve complex user problems, taking ambitious products from zero to one and scaling adoption or commercial success
- Substantive life sciences experience through research, industry, or building tools for scientists
- Ability to discuss experimental design, data quality, and biological interpretation with researchers
- Combine strategic judgment with a hands-on builder mindset
- Experience building model evaluations or benchmarks for scientific or agentic workflows
- Technical fluency to reason about data and tool integrations, model limitations, and tradeoffs involved in reliable scientific workflows
- Exercise sound judgment about evidence, uncertainty, privacy, and safety
- Experience shipping into life sciences, pharma, or regulated research environments
Preferred qualifications
- Founder experience
- Advanced degree in life sciences
Workplace
- Position is based in San Francisco, CA
Skills
- Codex
- Rosalind Workbench
- GPT-Rosalind
