Researcher, Alignment

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 295,000 - 440,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Education: phdSkills: ["Teamwork","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

OpenAI seeks a Research Engineer/Research Scientist on the Alignment team to design and implement scalable alignment solutions, integrating human oversight into AI decision-making. The role focuses on ensuring AI systems follow human intent in complex, high-stakes scenarios, with emphasis on experimentation, evaluation, and scalable oversight in a hybrid San Francisco environment.

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Researcher, Alignment

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Job Summary

OpenAI seeks a Research Engineer/Research Scientist on the Alignment team to design and implement scalable alignment solutions, integrating human oversight into AI decision-making. The role focuses on ensuring AI systems follow human intent in complex, high-stakes scenarios, with emphasis on experimentation, evaluation, and scalable oversight in a hybrid San Francisco environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Develop and evaluate alignment capabilities that are subjective, context-dependent, and hard to measure.
  • ā€¢Design evaluations to reliably measure risks and alignment with human intent and values.
  • ā€¢Build tools and evaluations to study and test model robustness in different situations.
  • ā€¢Design experiments to understand laws for how alignment scales as a function of compute, data, lengths of context and action, as well as resources of adversaries.
  • ā€¢Design and evaluate new Human-AI-interaction paradigms and scalable oversight methods that redefine how humans interact with, understand, and supervise our models.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 295,000 - 440,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢PhD or equivalent experience in research in computer science, computational science, data science, cognitive science, or similar fields.
Experience:AI alignmentMachine learningResearch
Education:PhD / Doctorate in computer science, cognitive science, data science or similar
Skills:TeamworkCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PyTorchTypeScriptPythonMachine learningScalingExperiments

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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