OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization
About this role
Join OpenAI's Personalization-Memory team to research and develop memory and personalization capabilities for frontier AI models. You'll own a research agenda focused on improving how models learn from user interactions, build evaluations, and collaborate with research and product teams to shape personalized ChatGPT experiences.
What you'll do
- Own and pursue a research agenda for improving memory use and personalization in frontier models
- Build robust evaluations to track and measure modeling improvements
- Design, implement, test, and debug code across the research stack
- Collaborate with research and product teams to influence technical solutions
- Work with user signals and human data to create reliable training and evaluation signals
What they're looking for
- Frontier model post-training expertise
- Reinforcement learning
- Machine learning evaluation and metrics design
- Python and large ML codebase debugging
- Dataset creation and human data annotation
- Product-driven research mindset
- Fast iteration and rapid prototyping
- Personalization system design
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 3 days in-office per week in San Francisco
- Relocation assistance for new employees
- Work on frontier AI and personalization at scale
- Collaboration with world-class research teams
- Opportunity to shape product-facing AI capabilities
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OpenAI
OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.
View all jobs at OpenAILikely interview questions
- Walk us through a post-training project you've led—what was your research hypothesis and how did you validate it?
- How have you approached building evaluations for subjective qualities like personalization or user helpfulness?