Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Personal AGI-Model Experience
Research Engineer/Scientist on OpenAI's Personal AGI Model Experience team, shaping ChatGPT's character, behavior, and human-AI interactions through research, human data, evaluations, reward models, and post-training. Requires strong ML engineering and research experience with large models.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance.
- Collaborate closely with other research and product teams.
- Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
- Design, implement, test, and debug code across the research stack.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications.
- Good judgment about model behavior and ability to communicate this judgment effectively.
- Enjoy taking ambitious, qualitative problems and turning them into concrete training interventions.
- Working knowledge of relevant models and building evaluations for model capability improvement.
- Comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug.
- Thrive in a dynamic, technically complex, and collaborative environment.
- Strong ML engineering skills and research experience, especially with novel and highly capable models.
- Passionate about product-driven research and the quality of human-AI interaction.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in research areas combining reinforcement learning and products.
Skills
Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Python, Evaluations, Reward Models, Post-Training, Ml Engineering, Debugging, Research
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