OpenAI — OpenAI Residency

Graduate Programme · Data & ML · 6-month pathway into ML research/engineering

Status

Listed

Location

San Francisco, CA

Level

Experienced

Deadline

Not published

Status checked against the firm's careers feed — last synced 9 October 2026.

Key details

Deadline: Not published by the firm; treat the role as rolling and apply early.
Cover letter: Required — see our Cover Letter Studio.
Visa sponsorship: Listed as available for this programme. Eligibility is normally set per vacancy and per location, so confirm the wording on the listing.
Process: App→Technical Screen→Onsite
Bridge for strong engineers/researchers from adjacent fields into AI.

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How to prepare for this one

Technical processes at this level test data structures and problem-solving under time pressure, then whether you can explain a design decision and its trade-offs out loud.

A balance scale tipped towards a pan marked chosen. Lev points at the raised pan marked given up, beside the words say this part, with a stopwatch at the foot of the post. — Any design picks a side. The round is listening for what you gave up to pick it.

Practise it, don't just read it

Free, no sign-up, and short enough to finish before you submit.

Capacity Estimator15 minPeak QPS, storage and egress for five classic systems. Four conversions, three traps, and the one thing the answer has to end with: which resource actually constrains the design.AI Product Sense Drill15 minThe AI product round has separated from the product round. Three products, fifteen decisions: what the model does unsupervised, how you would know it works, which failure is the expensive one.

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