Subject Matter Expert, Investment Banking

About the Team OpenAI is building AI systems that can help professionals perform complex, high-value work with greater speed, rigor, and creativity. Investment banking is one of the most demanding environments for knowledge work: bankers must synthesize fragmented information, exercise judgment under pressure, and produce precise, defensible models, analyses, and client materials. Our team works across Research, Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market to make OpenAI's models genuinely useful for these workflows. We translate real professional work into product requirements, evaluations, training signals, and repeatable customer solutions. We care not only whether a model can generate an answer, but whether it can deliver accurate, defensible work that experienced bankers can trust and use. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. About the Role We are looking for a Subject Matter Expert in Investment Banking to help define what excellent AI-assisted banking work looks like and turn that standard into better models and products. You will bring deep, current knowledge of how investment banking work is actually performed, including company and industry research, financial analysis and modeling, valuation, diligence, transaction execution, and the creation and review of client materials. You will use that expertise to design realistic tasks and evaluations, create and assess high-quality reference work, diagnose model failures, and help our technical teams improve model behavior and product experiences. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role for someone who enjoys both doing the work and explaining what makes it good. You should be comfortable moving between an Excel model, a presentation, a source document, an evaluation rubric, a product prototype, and a conversation with researchers or customers. You will help us distinguish outputs that merely look pl

Department: Applied AI; Team: Applied AI