Agent Post-Training Personality

1 day 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
About OpenAI

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.

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About the Role

You will study the behaviors that make agents thoughtful, clear, perceptive, proactive, and easy to work with. You will turn behavioral judgments and user signals into hypotheses, evaluations, training data, reward signals, and model improvements, then validate changes through experimentation, training, evaluation, and launch.

Requirements

  • Machine learning
  • Software engineering
  • Statistics
  • Behavioral science
  • HCI
  • LLMs
  • Post-training
  • RL/RLHF
  • Reward modeling
  • Evaluations
  • Synthetic data
  • Pretraining data
  • Production ML systems

Responsibilities

  • Develop an understanding of excellent agent collaboration
  • Turn qualitative judgments about model behavior into hypotheses, evals, graders, and training interventions
  • Study user signals to identify behaviors that create trust, satisfaction, continued use, and successful outcomes
  • Produce rollout and preference data with human experts and trainers
  • Improve reward models and RL objectives for model behaviors
  • Build pipelines for updating older training data
  • Turn consumer insight into model improvements and validate them in workflows
  • Own projects from behavioral failure through experimentation, training, evaluation, and launch

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
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