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Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personality and Model Behavior

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Engineering

Date Posted

July 10, 2026

Full Job Description

đź“‹ Description

  • • Conduct research around personalization, personality, and model behavior by leveraging and developing tools such as synthetic data, reward modeling, and reinforcement learning.
  • • Build robust evaluations and model training pipelines to facilitate our research.
  • • Innovate new post-training methods.
  • • Have a deep understanding of machine learning and its applications.
  • • Have prior knowledge in training and optimizing 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.
  • • The Personality & Model Behavior team, within OpenAI’s broader Personal AGI team conducts research on how to shape personalities and guide the behavior of models.
  • • We think about topics such as emotional intelligence, reasoning, and how models interact thoughtfully with users.
  • • We’re particularly interested in understanding how individual users want ChatGPT to behave, and creating personalized models that feel uniquely tailored to each user.
  • • We integrate this research into ChatGPT and other OpenAI products that are used by hundreds of millions of users.
  • • 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 https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.
  • • 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.

🎯 Requirements

  • • Have a deep understanding of machine learning and its applications.
  • • Have prior knowledge in training and optimizing 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.

🏖️ Benefits

  • • We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
  • • Offer relocation assistance to new employees.
  • • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241.

Skills & Technologies

Hybrid

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OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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