Research Engineer, Alignment

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Data science techniques, Design, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, PyTorch, TypeScript

Job Description

About the Role

As a Research Engineer on the Alignment team, you will be at the forefront of ensuring that our AI systems consistently follow human intent, even in complex and unpredictable scenarios. Your role will involve designing and implementing scalable solutions that ensure the alignment of AI as their capabilities grow and that integrate human oversight into AI decision-making.

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:

We are seeking research engineers and research scientists to help design and implement experiments for alignment research. Responsibilities may include:

• Develop and evaluate alignment capabilities that are subjective, context-dependent, and hard to measure.

• Design evaluations to reliably measure risks and alignment with human intent and values.

• Build tools and evaluations to study and test model robustness in different situations.

• 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.

• Design and evaluate new Human-AI-interaction paradigms and scalable oversight methods that redefine how humans interact with, understand, and supervise our models.

• Train model to be calibrated on correctness and risk.

• Designing novel approaches for using AI in alignment research

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are a team player – willing to do a variety of tasks that move the team forward.

• Have a PhD or equivalent experience in research in computer science, computational science, data science, cognitive science, or similar fields.

• Have strong engineering skills, particularly in designing and optimizing large-scale machine learning systems(e.g., PyTorch).

• Have a deep understanding of the science behind alignment algorithms and techniques.

• Can develop data visualization or data collection interfaces (e.g., TypeScript, Python).

• Enjoy fast-paced, collaborative, and cutting-edge research environments.

• Want to focus on developing AI models that are trustworthy, safe, and reliable, especially in high-stakes scenarios.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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Compensation

$295K – $440K + Offers Equity