Agent Post-Training Research
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
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
Projects
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.
Skills
About the Role
You will improve agentic model capabilities, reliability, and product fit across research, engineering, data, evaluations, and product. You will design experiments, improve the post-training stack, build evaluations and environments, translate product signals into model improvements, and debug model failures through experimentation and launch.
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
- Design and run experiments that improve agentic model behavior across coding, tool use, function calling, computer use, multi-agent collaboration, long-horizon tasks, factuality, instruction following, and calibrated reasoning
- Own improvements to the post-training stack, including RL, data pipelines, graders, reward signals, evals, diagnostics, and model-behavior analysis
- Build evaluations and environments that expose model failures
- Translate product signals into model improvements
- Work on training and alignment interventions
- Improve large-scale training and launch reliability, observability, reproducibility, cost, latency, and production readiness
- Debug model failures and turn them into hypotheses, experiments, and fixes
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
