OpenAI

Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization

OpenAI$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in research engineering or science, particularly with frontier models.
  • Strong background in post-training methods for machine learning.
  • Proficient in coding and debugging within complex ML frameworks.
  • Experience in developing robust evaluation metrics for model performance.
  • Passion for creating personalized user experiences using AI.

Responsibilities

  • Lead research initiatives for optimizing memory and personalization in AI models.
  • Develop evaluations to measure the effectiveness of modeling improvements.
  • Code, test, and debug various components of the research platform.
  • Collaborate with product teams to shape technical outcomes based on research findings.
  • Design experiments to validate personalization strategies and methodologies.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week.
  • Relocation assistance for new employees.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Research Engineer / Research Scientist on the Personalization-Memory team, you will research and develop improvements to memory usage and personalization in OpenAI's frontier models. Our team works on reinforcement learning, dataset creation, evaluations, and other post-training methods. We partner closely with research and product teams across the company to realize the vision of a truly personalized ChatGPT.

We're looking for individuals who have a background in frontier model post-training, are able to iterate quickly, and who are 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 for improving memory use and personalization in frontier models.
  • Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
  • Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack.
  • Collaborate closely with the research and product teams to influence the shape of technical solutions in the product.

You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Are passionate about personalization and building personalized assistants.
  • Have experience working with user signals and human data to turn feedback into reliable signals for training and evaluation.
  • Have a deep understanding of frontier model post-training and machine learning applications.
  • Value principled approaches and research craftsmanship.
  • Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug.
  • Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically complex environment.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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Founded
2015

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