Software Engineer - Human Alignment, Consumer Devices

📋 Description

• • Join OpenAI's groundbreaking Future of Computing Research team as a Software Engineer, focusing on the critical area of Human Alignment within Consumer Devices.
• • This pivotal role is instrumental in shaping the future of AI by developing the essential infrastructure, robust data systems, and rigorous evaluation frameworks for next-generation multimodal AI systems.
• • You will be at the forefront of applied research, transforming cutting-edge model capabilities into user experiences that are not only useful and delightful but also foster long-term trust and align with human values.
• • The team's mission is to explore and build a new generation of AI systems capable of learning over time, adapting to individual users, and seamlessly integrating into daily life.
• • This involves pioneering advancements in long-term memory, sophisticated user modeling, and deeply personalized systems that go beyond immediate gratification to support a person’s broader goals, values, and overall well-being.
• • Collaborate intimately with cross-functional teams, including research, engineering, design, product, and safety, to define and implement what it truly means to build AI systems that understand users over extended periods, act appropriately within context, and provide demonstrably beneficial assistance in a respectful and context-aware manner.
• • As a Software Engineer on the Human Alignment Team, your primary focus will be on constructing the foundational systems that enable high-quality, product-grounded research.
• • You will architect and build the sophisticated pipelines required to convert complex, real-world signals into reliable training and evaluation datasets.
• • Develop intuitive and efficient tooling to facilitate human feedback processes, ensuring high-quality data collection and annotation.
• • Design and implement advanced evaluation platforms that empower the team to measure model behavior with exceptional precision and credibility.
• • This role demands a unique blend of strong software engineering fundamentals and a keen research sensibility, recognizing that in human-centered AI, effective measurement is often the most challenging and crucial aspect.
• • You will be responsible for building the evaluation and data foundations that underpin the development of advanced personalized and multimodal AI systems.
• • Engage closely with researchers to translate abstract behavioral questions into concrete, rigorous evaluations, meticulously crafted datasets, clear rubrics, and insightful scorecards.
• • Design, implement, and refine human-data pipelines, sophisticated grader systems, and robust experiment infrastructure specifically tailored for product-grounded research initiatives.
• • Create innovative evaluation frameworks capable of assessing subjective, contextual, and long-horizon behaviors, pushing the boundaries of how we understand AI interaction.
• • Develop and maintain reproducible pipelines for the collection, processing, integration, and analysis of multimodal signals derived from real-world studies and actual product usage.
• • Play a key role in defining what constitutes meaningful progress in AI alignment and build the systems that enable the team to measure this progress with unwavering confidence.
• • Foster seamless collaboration across research, safety, design, and engineering disciplines to ensure that the optimization targets are both technically sound and deeply human-centered.
• • Embrace rapid prototyping, iterate effectively on measurement frameworks, and continuously enhance the team’s capacity to debug, compare, and trust behavioral results.
• • Contribute significantly to shaping the core infrastructure and methodologies that will be the bedrock for future OpenAI products, particularly in areas of personalization, adaptation, and comprehensive evaluation.
• • You will be instrumental in defining the research infrastructure that will power a new generation of AI products, ensuring they are aligned with human values and beneficial to society.
• • This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the direction of AI development at one of the world's leading AI research organizations, working on problems that have the potential to redefine human-computer interaction.
• • Contribute to the ethical development and deployment of AI, ensuring that these powerful technologies are built with safety and human needs at their core.
• • You will be part of a dynamic and intellectually stimulating environment, surrounded by world-class researchers and engineers dedicated to advancing the field of artificial intelligence.
• • The work you do will directly impact how millions of users interact with AI in their daily lives, making it a deeply rewarding and impactful career path.
• • You will have the opportunity to publish research, contribute to open-source projects, and present your work at leading AI conferences, further enhancing your professional growth and the broader AI community.
• • This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model requiring four days in the office per week, and relocation assistance is provided for new employees.
• • You will be part of a culture that values diverse perspectives and experiences, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute to our mission.