Researcher, Alignment
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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 design and implement experiments for alignment research, moving from ambiguous model-behavior questions to concrete experimental setups. You will build evaluations and tools, study how alignment scales, develop scalable oversight methods and train models to be calibrated on correctness and risk.
Requirements
- PhD or equivalent research experience in computer science, computational science, data science, cognitive science, or similar
- Strong engineering skills in designing and optimizing large-scale ML systems (e.g., PyTorch)
- Deep understanding of alignment algorithms and techniques
- Ability to develop data visualization or data collection interfaces (e.g., TypeScript, Python)
- Team player
Responsibilities
- Develop and evaluate alignment capabilities that are subjective, context-dependent, and hard to measure
- Design evaluations to measure risks and alignment with human intent and values
- Build tools and evaluations to test model robustness
- Design experiments on how alignment scales with compute, data, context length and adversary resources
- Design and evaluate human-AI interaction paradigms and scalable oversight methods
- Train models to be calibrated on correctness and risk
- Design novel approaches for using AI in alignment research
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