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Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Post Training, Model Experience

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
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 research and develop improvements to models, combining reinforcement learning and products. You will own a research agenda to improve model capability and performance, collaborate closely with research and product teams, build robust evaluations, and design, implement, test and debug code across the research stack.

Requirements

  • Strong ML engineering skills and research experience
  • Deep understanding of machine learning and its applications
  • Working knowledge of relevant models and building evaluations
  • Comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug

Responsibilities

  • Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance
  • Collaborate closely with research and product teams
  • Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements
  • Design, implement, test, and debug code across the research stack

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonus
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
  • Paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Post Training, Model Experience at OpenAI | JobStash