Agent Post-Training Frontier Evals and Environments Research

13 hours agoSalary: 380K - 500KSan Francisco, USAResearchJobs by OpenAI

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departuresTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

San Francisco, United States
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About the Role

You will create ambitious RL environments that measure frontier model capabilities, skills, and behaviors. You will develop automated model-behavior exploration methods, study evaluation measurement quality, support major training runs, design continuous-evaluation systems, and build self-improvement loops for model understanding.

Requirements

  • Machine learning
  • Software engineering
  • Systems
  • Statistics
  • LLMs
  • RL
  • RLHF/RLAIF
  • Post-training
  • Evaluations
  • Graders
  • Synthetic data
  • Model training
  • Coding agents
  • Tool-using agents
  • Production ML systems

Responsibilities

  • Create RL environments to test model capabilities, skills, and behaviors
  • Develop methodologies for automatically exploring model behavior
  • Study scalability, reliability, and variance in evaluation methodology
  • Help steer large training runs
  • Design systems and processes for continuous evaluation
  • Build self-improvement loops to automate model understanding

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer Health Savings Account contributions
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
  • Flexible PTO or up to 15 days of annual PTO, depending on exemption status
  • 13+ paid holidays, coordinated office closures, and paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided
  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonuses for eligible employees