Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
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 advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods. Your work will sit at the heart of training intelligent, aligned, general-purpose agents, including the systems that power various models. You will iterate quickly, run simple controlled experiments, and debug and improve a large ML codebase.
Requirements
- Background in reinforcement learning research
- Ability to iterate quickly
- Proficient at coding
- Deep understanding of machine learning and its applications
- Comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug
Responsibilities
- Advance AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods
- Train intelligent, aligned, general-purpose agents
- Run simple experiments in tightly-controlled settings
- Debug and improve a large ML codebase
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
