Research Engineer / Scientist, Personality and Model Behavior

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

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of AI research, where you will tackle groundbreaking challenges in personality and model behavior. This role offers the opportunity to conduct innovative research and integrate your findings into products that impact millions. If you have a passion for machine learning and thrive in dynamic environments, this position is perfect for you. Collaborate with experts to push the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring safety and ethical considerations are at the core of your work. Be part of a mission-driven team dedicated to shaping the future of technology.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of machine learning and its applications.
• Prior knowledge in training and optimizing models.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on personality and model behavior.
• Build evaluations and pipelines for development.
• Innovate new post-training methods.

Skills

Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing

Model Optimization

Debugging Large ML Codebases

Tools

Synthetic Data Tools

Job description

About the Team

The Personality & Model Behavior team conducts research on how to shape personalities and guide the behavior of models. We think about topics such as emotional intelligence, reasoning, and how models interact thoughtfully with users. We integrate those research into the final products of OpenAI that are used by hundreds of millions of users.

About the Role

We're looking for people who are experts in the fields such as reinforcement learning, machine learning, natural language processing, etc. Join us if you are passionate about tackling cutting-edge, open-ended research challenges and transforming your findings into real-world products.

In this role, you will:

• Conduct research around personality and model behavior, leveraging and developing tools such as synthetic data, reinforcement learning, reasoning to shape the personality and model behavior, including models such as o3, o4-mini, 4o, etc.

• Build evaluations and pipelines to facilitate the development and research.

• Innovate new post-training methods.

• Integrate your research into the final product of OpenAI.

You might thrive in this role if you:

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

• Have prior knowledge in training and optimizing models and building evaluations.

• Are willing to dive into large ML codebases to debug issues.

• Thrive in dynamic and technically complex environments.

• Have a track record of delivering innovative, out-of-the-box solutions to address real-world constraints.

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