Researcher, Alignment Interpretability
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and carry out a research plan in mechanistic interpretability, publishing research on techniques for understanding deep network representations. You will engineer infrastructure for studying model internals at scale, collaborate across teams, and guide research toward usefulness and scalability.
Requirements
- Experience in AI safety and alignment, mechanistic interpretability, or related disciplines
- Ph.D. or research experience in computer science, machine learning, or related field
- 2+ years of research engineering experience
- Proficiency in Python or similar languages
- Experience with large-scale AI systems
Responsibilities
- Develop and publish research on techniques for understanding representations of deep networks
- Engineer infrastructure for studying model internals at scale
- Collaborate across teams on projects
- Guide research directions toward demonstrable usefulness and long-term scalability
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated 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