# Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** AI Research
**Salary:** $295k – $555k/yr
**Skills:** Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, frontier models, model post-training, personalization, natural language processing, machine learning codebases, evaluation design, dataset creation, human data, user signals
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Researches and develops memory and personalization improvements for frontier models through post-training, reinforcement learning, dataset creation, and evaluations. The role requires strong machine-learning expertise, research craftsmanship, and the ability to work across a large codebase with research and product teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and pursue a research agenda for improving memory use and personalization in frontier models.
- Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
- Design, implement, test, and debug code across the research stack.
- Collaborate closely with research and product teams to influence technical solutions in the product.

## Requirements and Qualifications
- Passion for personalization and building personalized assistants.
- Experience working with user signals and human data to turn feedback into reliable signals for training and evaluation.
- Deep understanding of frontier model post-training and machine learning applications.
- Principled approach and strong research craftsmanship.
- Comfort diving into a large machine-learning codebase to debug.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically complex environment.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 3 days per week in the office.
- Relocation assistance is available to new employees.

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