Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning
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Highlights
- Hybrid work model (3 days in office)
- Relocation assistance
- Cutting-edge reinforcement learning research
Why this role might suit you
The role offers a chance to advance AI alignment and capabilities within a leading research team, working on state‑of‑the‑art reinforcement learning and reasoning models while collaborating in a hybrid office environment.
Skills
About the role
About the Team
The RL and Reasoning team drives the core reasoning paradigm and has created groundbreaking innovations such as o1 and o3. They focus on pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning research, building next-generation generative models, and deploying them at scale.
About the Role
As a Research Engineer/Research Scientist at OpenAI, you will advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods. Your work will sit at the heart of training intelligent, aligned, and general-purpose agents, including the systems that power various models.
We’re looking for people who have a background in reinforcement learning research, are able to iterate quickly, and are proficient at coding.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
You might thrive in this role if:
- You love being on the cutting edge of RL and language model research.
- You’re a self-starter who takes initiative and ownership of ideas, driving them to completion.
- You value principled approaches, simple experiments in tightly-controlled settings, and reaching trustworthy conclusions which stand the test of time.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically complex environment where rapid iteration is key.
- You’re comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug and improve it.
- You have a deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications.
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.
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Compensation
This Research Engineer role pays $295k-$445k/yr. Within typical range for research engineer roles in United States.
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