Eric Bear is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with nine years of engineering experience blending personalization systems and applied AI. He built product and engineering skills at Applied Intuition and earlier held full-stack and research roles at Stanford, NIST, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, reflecting a mix of production software and rigorous research internships. Trained in computer science with an MS in Sustainability from Stanford, he brings a systems view that connects technical design to real-world impact and long-term resilience. A former course assistant and co-founder of a student collective, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and product strategy experience. Based in San Francisco, he also has an electronics background that informs low-level thinking about systems and hardware-adjacent challenges.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Colorado Academy, Denver, Colorado
Master of Science - MS, Sustainability Science and Practice, Master of Science - MS, Sustainability Science and Practice at Stanford University
Contributions:7 PRs, 37 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
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