Summary
Josh McGrath is a seasoned AI/ML software engineer and researcher, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, with 11 years of experience spanning academia and industry. Based in San Francisco, he has co-founded and led technical initiatives at DatologyAI and Inductiv, and held ML roles at Snorkel AI and Apple, consistently translating research into production systems. He earned a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and did graduate work in UW's Data Systems Group, contributing to the SIGMOD paper HoloDetect and to the COSMOS system (now part of xDD). His early career includes teaching CS to K-12 students and software development internships, reflecting a blend of pedagogy and hands-on engineering. He has roots in data quality research at the University of Waterloo and now applies rigorous, data-centric ML methods to scale AI platforms in the Bay Area.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Chinese