OpenAI is advertising a base salary of up to $500,000, plus equity, for a machine-learning engineer supporting training runs in its robotics organization. The role does not directly build robots; it focuses on the data and software pipeline behind model training. OpenAI lists 21 robotics openings in San Francisco, while a robotics software engineer role pays $255,000 to $325,000 and an inference engineer has a $380,000 base salary.
The figures illuminate how OpenAI is rebuilding its robotics effort after shutting the team down in 2021 and restarting it in 2024. The company has leased a 200,000-square-foot site in Richmond, California, but has not named a replacement for former hardware and robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski. The compensation emphasizes that data and training infrastructure are central to the company’s physical-robotics strategy.
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-robotics-engineer-salaries-500000
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