Research Engineer, Post-Training Evals

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 295,000 - 530,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative AI research firm is seeking a Research Engineer/Scientist to enhance model capabilities through rigorous evaluation and experimentation. This role involves collaborating with diverse teams to develop robust methodologies and datasets that bridge metrics with meaningful insights. The position offers a dynamic environment focused on cutting-edge AI technologies, where your contributions will directly influence model development and deployment. Join this forward-thinking company to explore the vast potential of AI and ensure its benefits reach all of humanity.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of RL or LLMs and their evaluation.
• Experience with large ML codebases and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Investigate relationships between evaluation metrics and model behavior.
• Develop novel evaluation methodologies for complex model attributes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze user interactions.

Skills

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Large Language Models (LLMs)

Machine Learning (ML)

Experimental Methodologies

Data Analysis

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Master's in Machine Learning or related field

Tools

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

About the Team

The Post-Training team is responsible for training and improving pre-trained models to be deployed into ChatGPT, the API, and future products. The team partners closely with research and product teams across the company, and conducts research as a final step to prepare for real world deployment to millions of users, ensuring that our models are safe, efficient, and reliable.

About the Role

We are seeking a Research Engineer/Scientist to help us deeply understand and improve the capabilities of our models through rigorous evaluation, analysis, and experimentation. In this role, you will lead efforts to correlate evaluation metrics with model behavior, user experience, and real-world performance. Your work will directly inform model development, guide research priorities, and ensure that our evaluation methodologies accurately capture the nuanced capabilities.

You will collaborate closely with researchers, data scientists, and engineers to develop robust experimental methodologies, create high-quality evaluation datasets, and design new metrics that capture nuanced aspects of model quality. Your work will bridge the gap between raw metrics and meaningful insights, helping us understand the broader capabilities and limitations of our models.

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.

In this role, you will:

• Investigate the relationship between evaluation metrics and model behavior:
  Design and execute studies to understand how various metrics correlate with user satisfaction, task success, and broader model capabilities.

• Develop novel evaluation methodologies:
  Create experimental frameworks and evaluation methods to measure complex model attributes, including alignment, robustness, and generalization.

• Collaborate cross-functionally:
  Work with data scientists to analyze user interactions, partner with research teams to implement evaluations and inform model development.
  

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a deep understanding of RL or LLMs

• Have a working knowledge of relevant models, and building evaluations for model capability improvement.

• Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug.

• Thrive in a dynamic and technically complex environment.

• Are excited to explore the capabilities and limitations of cutting-edge AI models.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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Compensation Range: $295K - $530K