Research Scientist, Learning & Cognitive Outcomes

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

London, UK

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Research Scientist focused on Learning & Cognitive Outcomes at OpenAI, you will help build the scientific and evaluation infrastructure needed to understand how AI systems affect learning, cognition, and capability development over time, going beyond engagement to measure whether users develop better reasoning, stronger metacognition, greater autonomy, deeper understanding, improved transfer, and more durable skills.
• You will design rigorous studies, develop scalable evaluation methods, build classifiers and graders, manage RCTs and field studies with external partners such as schools and universities, guide research partners on protocol quality and analysis, and translate findings into model and product improvements while collaborating with internal product, research, engineering, data science, and policy teams.
• This role sits at the intersection of learning science, cognitive science, experimental design, LLM evaluation, and applied product research within OpenAI, a mission-driven AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity through safe and responsible innovation.
• You will develop expertise in designing causal evaluation methods for AI’s impact on human cognition, building validated assessment systems for learning outcomes, managing multi-site studies with educational institutions, and translating empirical findings into actionable recommendations for model behavior, product design, and evaluation standards in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong grounding in learning science, cognitive science, educational psychology, behavioral science, HCI, or a related empirical field
• Experience designing and executing rigorous empirical research, including RCTs, field experiments, large-scale behavioral studies, or other causal evaluation methods
• Ability to design studies that measure meaningful cognitive and learning outcomes, not just engagement or short-term performance
• Build and validate evaluation systems for learning and cognitive outcomes, including rubrics, classifiers, graders, benchmarks, behavioral metrics, and model-based evaluators
• Be technically fluent enough to work with data directly, prototype analyses, inspect model outputs, and collaborate effectively with data scientists, engineers, and research teams
• Help design, launch, and manage external RCTs and field studies with partners such as schools, universities, education systems, research groups, vendors, and other institutions

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About OpenAI, Inc.

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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