Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Post-Training

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About the Team

The Post-Training team is responsible for training and improving pre-trained models to be deployed into ChatGPT, the API, and potential future products. The team partners closely with research and product teams across the company, and conducts research as a final step to prepare for real world deployment to millions of users, ensuring that our models are safe, efficient, and reliable.

About the Role

As a Research Engineer / Scientist, you will research and develop improvements to our models. Our team works in research areas combining reinforcement learning and products.

We're looking for individuals with strong ML engineering skills and research experience, especially with novel and highly capable models. An ideal candidate is passionate about product-driven research.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance.
• Collaborate closely with other research and product teams, allowing customers to optimize their own models.
• Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
• Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack.

Requirements / Preferred Qualifications

• Strong machine learning knowledge and machine learning applications experience.
• Research experience with novel and highly capable models.
• Working knowledge of relevant models and building evaluations for model capability improvement.
• Comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and technically complex environment.

Benefits & Compensation Notes

• Base salary range advertised for this role: $295K - $530K (offers equity).
• In addition to base pay, total compensation may include equity, performance-related bonuses (for eligible employees), and a range of benefits.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; Health Savings Account contributions; flexible PTO (and paid time off specifics for non-exempt employees); 401(k) with employer match; parental and caregiver leave; mental health support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage; annual learning and development stipend; daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits; and additional taxable fringe benefits.
• Relocation support is provided for eligible employees.

Other Information

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law. Additional corporate policies and privacy information are available to applicants via linked policies.