Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Agent Robustness and Control

About the Team

The Agents team within Research works in research areas combining language models, reinforcement learning, and agents. Agent Robustness and Control focuses on ensuring safe and secure iterative deployment of agents through systems, product, and research engineering work.

About the Role

We’re looking for research engineers excited to advance the frontier of agent research, safety, and security. This role is focused on integrating safety and security at every layer of the stack from fundamental research to launching the work as a product.

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:

• Train and evaluate models with a focus on robustness and monitoring-in-the-loop

• Own and pursue innovative solutions to safety and security risks with no clear answer 

• Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research and product stack

• Collaborate with Safety, Security, Research, and Product teams to ship capable agents

• Build reusable tools for improving model safety and robustness across systems and products

• Actively evaluate and understand the safety of our models and systems, identifying areas of risk, then proposing and implementing mitigation strategies

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are happy to learn whatever is needed and have unique way of learning quickly

• Are comfortable diving into a large codebase to debug (including ML or product components)

• Are willing to experiment and be creative in problem solving, and have a strong understanding that there's more than one way to solve any problem

• Have strong programming skills in Python or similar languages

• Have experience balancing product and research objectives with safety and security considerations in a production, high-stakes environment

• Are familiar with methods of training and fine-tuning large language models, such as distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and/or policy optimization

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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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.

Compensation

$295K – $530K + Offers Equity