Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Model Behavior Job at OpenAI, San Francisco, CA

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  • OpenAI
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

About the Team

Model behavior makes current and future models better for people at scale.

This small team of expert tastemakers, designers, PMs, and researchers work across the company and take responsibility for how OpenAI’s models behave. We work on both products with hundreds of millions of users and OpenAI’s internal cutting-edge models.

About the Role

As a model behavior researcher at OpenAI, you will create evals to guide the research organization. The model is the product , and the evals are the model: in this role, you will have singular impact on steering the behavior of today’s products and tomorrow’s AGI.

Model behavior research cross-functionally works with alignment, training, data, RL and post-training. In addition to research, this role demands strong product taste and intuition for classical AI alignment challenges.

In this role, you will:

  1. Help decide how today’s products and tomorrow’s AGI will act.

  2. Design evaluations to ensure OpenAI’s models are aligned with this intent.

  3. Develop new evaluation technology to scalably oversee our models as capabilities advance.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  1. Have extensive experience navigating and onboarding to large ML codebases.

  2. Have published or worked publicly on language model evals used at big labs.

  3. Have artistic, design, or notable product experience in addition to research chops.

  4. You understand the gravity of AGI and what it means for us to get its initial conditions right .

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form . No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link .

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$310K – $460K + Offers Equity

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