Research Engineer/Scientist, Personality and Model Behavior

About the Team

The Personality & Model behavior team conducts research on how to shape personalities and guide the behavior of models behind ChatGPT and APIs. We integrate those research into the final products of OpenAI that are used by hundreds of millions of users. 

About the Role

We’re looking for people who are experts in the field of natural language processing, reinforcement learning, machine learning, and personalization. Join us if you are passionate about tackling cutting-edge, open-ended research challenges and transforming your findings into real-world products.

In this role, you will:

• Conduct research around personality and model behavior, leveraging and developing tools such as synthetic data, reinforcement learning to shape the personality and model behavior of ChatGPT.

• Build evaluations and pipelines to facilitate the development and research in this area.

• Innovate new post-training methods.

• Integrate your research into the final product of OpenAI.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a deep understanding of machine learning and its applications.

• Have prior knowledge in training and optimizing large language and multimodal models and building evaluations.

• Are willing to dive into large ML codebases to debug issues.

• Thrive in dynamic and technically complex environments.

• Have a track record of delivering innovative, out-of-the-box solutions to address real-world constraints.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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