Research Engineer Research Scientist Personal AGI, Personalization

About the Team

The Personalization-Memory team within OpenAIs broader Personal AGI organization is focused on developing agents that can learn from prior interactions in order to become more helpful and efficient over time. We build general-purpose memory and personalization capabilities that transfer across ChatGPT and other agentic products and we collaborate with applied engineering on the product surfaces that allow users to interact with memory.

About the Role

As a Research Engineer / Research Scientist on the Personalization-Memory team you will research and develop improvements to memory usage and personalization in OpenAIs frontier models. Our team works on reinforcement learning dataset creation evaluations and other post-training methods. We partner closely with research and product teams across the company to realize the vision of a truly personalized ChatGPT.

Were looking for individuals who have a background in frontier model post-training are able to iterate quickly and who are passionate about product-driven research.

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:

• Own and pursue a research agenda for improving memory use and personalization in frontier models.

• Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.

• Design implement test and debug code across our research stack.

• Collaborate closely with the research and product teams to influence the shape of technical solutions in the product.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are passionate about personalization and building personalized assistants.

• Have experience working with user signals and human data to turn feedback into reliable signals for training and evaluation.

• Have a deep understanding of frontier model post-training and machine learning applications.

• Value principled approaches and research craftsmanship.

• Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug.

• Thrive in a fast-paced dynamic and technically complex environment.

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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