Research Engineer / Research Scientist -Personal AGI, Proactivity

Remote San Francisco FullTime

Posted 2mo ago

Job Location

San Francisco

Tech Stack

Remote Work Policy

Fully remote

Employment Type

FullTime

Categories

AI Research Engineer

About the job

The Proactivity Research team at OpenAI is focused on making AI models proactive and useful for users. This role involves researching and developing improvements to model personalization and agentic capabilities, working on areas like reinforcement learning, dataset creation, and post-training methods. The team collaborates closely with other research and product teams to build a personalized, collaborative, and proactive assistant. We are looking for individuals with strong ML engineering skills and research experience, particularly with novel and capable models, who are passionate about product-driven research.

Responsibilities

  • Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model proactivity and ability to further user goals.
  • Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
  • Design, implement, test, and debug code across the research stack.
  • Collaborate with research and product teams to influence technical solutions in the product.

Requirements

  • Deep understanding of machine learning and its applications.
  • Working knowledge of LLM post-training and evaluation approaches.
  • Experience or strong interest in personalization and enabling users to achieve their goals.
  • Comfortable debugging within a large ML codebase.
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic and technically complex environment.
  • Strong ML engineering skills and research experience, especially with novel and highly capable models.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance to new employees.

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