Model Designer

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About the Team

The Core Models team shapes how models interact with people. The team views the model as the product itself, aiming to create intuitive experiences that exceed user expectations and feel like magic.

About the Role

As a Model Designer, you will have a significant impact on how models interact and resonate with users. You will balance maximizing model capabilities, interpreting user queries to understand how best to help, and upholding user trust.

This role focuses on the intersection of design, technology, and user experience, with the challenge of defining new human-AI interaction paradigms. The role is based in San Francisco, California, and follows a hybrid work model requiring three days in the office per week.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with researchers to understand, predict, and design model behavior.
• Partner with product managers and designers across the company to ensure a cohesive voice and approach.
• Proactively identify ways to improve models based on product sense, user feedback, quantitative insights, and the research roadmap.
• Develop creative strategies for collecting high-quality data.
• Take on whatever work is needed to improve the models.

Requirements

• Exceptional taste, creativity, and writing skills, with the ability to craft responses that delight users.
• Comfort with ambiguity and unfamiliar environments, including building relationships, defining problems, and making progress.
• A willingness to experiment and test or reject ideas based on results.
• High levels of empathy and self-awareness to serve people worldwide.
• An interest in tackling profound and philosophical questions while driving toward clarity.
• Technical intuition and the ability to understand how changes in data can affect overall model behavior.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company develops AI systems and seeks to deploy them safely through its products, with safety and human needs at the core.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of legally protected characteristics. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law. Reasonable accommodations are available to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Base salary of $266,000–$295,000 per year.
• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and additional benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health, dependent care, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, paid company holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time as required by law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, including charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.