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Kenji Watanabe

Kenji Watanabe

Researcher — pre-training, scaling, evaluation
Member of Technical Staff, Pre-training at OpenAISan Francisco, CA · America/Los_Angeles14 yrs · IC6
ScreeningWarmSourcedPassiveUS citizen
AI match score
96/ 100
Strong
Last touched1w ago
OwnerMei Lin
Comp expectation$520,000–$720,000
Flight riskmedium

Initial outreach — sequence: founding engineer

Email · outbound · Mar 13, 2026 (1mo ago)

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Hi Kenji, saw your work on the RAG project at OpenAI — specifically the piece on onboarding. We're building something I think you'd be genuinely excited by. Would you be open to a short conversation this week?