OpenAI

Research Engineer / Research Scientist - RE / RS - Proactivity

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in machine learning engineering or research
  • Strong familiarity with reinforcement learning techniques
  • Experience with model personalization and evaluation methods
  • Knowledge of large language models (LLMs) post-training techniques
  • Ability to work closely with product and research teams
  • Proficiency in coding and debugging within a machine learning framework
  • A track record of product-driven research and development

Responsibilities

  • Own and advance a research agenda for model proactivity
  • Develop evaluations to monitor model performance
  • Design and implement solutions within the research stack
  • Collaborate with research and product teams to shape technical capabilities
  • Test and debug code related to model enhancements

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in-office per week
  • Relocation assistance for new employees
  • Supportive research atmosphere advocating innovative solutions
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams for impactful outcomes
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge personalization technologies
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Research Engineer / Scientist, you will research and develop improvements to our models' personalization and agentic capabilities. 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 highly personalized, collaborative, and proactive assistant.

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 the proactivity and ability of our models to further user goals.
  • Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
  • Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack.
  • Collaborate closely with the other research and product teams to influence the shape of technical solutions in the product


You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have a deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications.
  • Have a working knowledge of LLM post-training and evaluation approaches
  • Are passionate about, or have experience thinking about, personalization and enabling users to achieve their goals
  • Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug.
  • Thrive in a 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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Size
100 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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