Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Post-Training

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

Job summary

A leading AI research company seeks skills of a Research Engineer / Scientist to advance pre-trained model capabilities. This role focuses on a hybrid work model in San Francisco, integrating strong ML engineering within a collaborative, innovative environment. Ideal candidates will be professionals passionate about enhancing AI products through rigorous research methodologies.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Qualifications

• Strong ML engineering skills with experience in high-capacity models.
• Deep understanding of ML applications.
• Proven ability to design and debug complex ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model performance.
• Collaborate with research and product teams to optimize models.
• Build evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.

Skills

Machine Learning

Model Evaluation

Debugging

Education

Degree in a relevant field

Job description

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Post-Training | OpenAI

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Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Post-Training

Post-training - San Francisco

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About the Team

The Post-Training team is responsible for training and improving pre-trained models to be deployed into ChatGPT, the API, and potential 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

As a Research Engineer / Scientist, you will research and develop improvements to our models. Our team works in research areas combining reinforcement learning and products.

We're looking for individuals with strong ML engineering skills and research experience, especially with novel and highly capable models. An ideal candidate is passionate about product-driven research.

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:

• Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance.

• Collaborate closely with the other research and product teams, allowing customers to optimize their own models.

• Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.

• Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications.

• 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.

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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation

$295K – $530K + Offers Equity

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