Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning
OpenAI · San Francisco
About this role
About the Team
The RL and Reasoning team drives the core reasoning paradigm and has created groundbreaking innovations such as o1 and o3. They focus on pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning research, building next-generation generative models, and deploying them at scale.
About the Role
As a Research Engineer/Research Scientist at OpenAI, you will advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods. Your work will sit at the heart of training intelligent, aligned, and general-purpose agents, including the systems that power various models.
We’re looking for people who have a background in reinforcement learning research, are able to iterate quickly, and are proficient at coding.
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.
You might thrive in this role if:
- You love being on the cutting edge of RL and language model research.
- You’re a self-starter who takes initiative and ownership of ideas, driving them to completion.…
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