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Career profile
Whitney D.
Research @ OpenAI
San Francisco Bay Area
Career path.
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Apr 2026 - Present- LinkedIn
Software Engineer || Applied AI Systems & Infrastructure
Jul 2025 - Apr 2026 - LinkedIn
Software Engineer || Distributed Data Systems & Infrastructure
Sep 2024 - Jul 2025 - Cosmos Institute
Cosmos Fellow
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024 - LinkedIn
Software Engineer || Backend Systems & Infrastructure
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023 - Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Researcher
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
MetaSoftware Engineer || Mobile Engineering
May 2022 - Aug 2022- Barnard College
Research Assistant
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021 - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Junior Research Assistant || Bioinformatics
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021 - Columbia University in the City of New York
Teaching Assistant (CompSci)
Jun 2021 - May 2022 - NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Software Engineer
Jan 2021 - May 2022 - Hanson Robotics Limited
Engineer
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018