Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Data Understanding - Foundations
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AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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 treat data quality and curation as core research problems. You'll develop new methods to select, combine, and transform data, create datasets that improve model capabilities, and design rigorous experiments to understand how data choices affect model learning. You'll work with frontier models and web-scale data and translate successful research into scalable data processing pipelines.
Requirements
- Strong track record of new or improved ML ideas through publications, projects, or applied research
- Ability to own and drive a research agenda through to impact
- Excitement about OpenAI's empirical, collaborative approach to research
Responsibilities
- Develop new methods to select, combine, and transform pretraining data
- Create datasets that improve model capabilities
- Design rigorous experiments on how data choices affect model learning and downstream behavior
- Translate successful research into scalable data processing pipelines
- Own and drive a research agenda