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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Research Engineer / Research Scientist

Research Engineer/Scientist shaping personalities and behaviors of personalized AI models like ChatGPT using RL, reward modeling, synthetic data, and post-training methods. Requires strong ML engineering and research experience with large models.

295k – 555k
Hybrid7+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Conduct research around personalization, personality, and model behavior by leveraging and developing tools such as synthetic data, reward modeling, and reinforcement learning.
  • Build robust evaluations and model training pipelines to facilitate research.
  • Innovate new post-training methods.

Requirements

  • Strong ML engineering skills and research experience, especially with novel and highly capable models.
  • Prior knowledge in training and optimizing models and building evaluations.
  • Deep understanding of machine learning and its applications.
  • Willingness to dive into large ML codebases to debug issues.
  • Thrive in dynamic and technically complex environments.
  • Track record of delivering innovative, out-of-the-box solutions to address real-world constraints.
  • Passionate about product-driven research.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience in areas like reinforcement learning and reward modeling.

Skills

Machine LearningReinforcement LearningReward ModelingSynthetic DataModel TrainingModel EvaluationPost-Training MethodsMl EngineeringPython

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