Researcher, Health AI

About the Team

The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring the safety robustness and reliability of AI models towards their deployment in the real world.

OpenAIs charter calls on us to ensure the benefits of AI are distributed widely. Our Health AI team is focused on enabling universal access to high-quality medical information. We work at the intersection of AI safety research and healthcare applications aiming to create trustworthy AI models that can assist medical professionals and improve patient outcomes.

About the Role

Were seeking strong researchers who are passionate about advancing AI safety and improving global health outcomes. As a Research Scientist you will contribute to the development of safe and effective AI models for healthcare applications. You will implement practical and general methods to improve the behavior knowledge and reasoning of our models in these settings. This will require research into safety and alignment techniques that we aim to generalize towards safe and beneficial AGI.

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.

In this role you will:

• Design and apply practical and scalable methods to improve safety and reliability of our models including RLHF automated red teaming scalable oversight etc.

• Evaluate methods using health-related data ensuring models provide accurate reliable and trustworthy information.

• Build reusable libraries for applying general alignment techniques to our models.

• Proactively understand the safety of our models and systems identifying areas of risk.

• Work with cross-team stakeholders to integrate methods in core model training and launch safety improvements in OpenAIs products.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are excited about OpenAIs mission of ensuring AGI is universally beneficial and are aligned with OpenAIs charter.

• Demonstrate passion for AI safety and improving global health outcomes.

• Have 4 years of experience with deep learning research and LLMs especially practical alignment topics such as RLHF automated red teaming scalable oversight etc.

• Hold a Ph.D. or other degree in computer science AI machine learning or a related field.

• Stay goal-oriented instead of method-oriented and are not afraid of unglamorous but high-value work when needed.

• Possess experience making practical model improvements for AI model deployment.

• Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge youre missing to get the job done.

• Are a team player who enjoys collaborative work environments.

• Bonus: possess experience in health-related AI research or deployments.

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 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.

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