# Research Engineer / Research Scientist

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $295k – $555k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Reward Modeling, Synthetic Data, Model Training, Model Evaluation, Post-Training Methods, Ml Engineering, Python
**Posted:** 2026-07-07

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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