OpenAI

Research

Researcher,AgentPost-Training,Personality

$295–445k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Researcher, Agent Post-Training, Personality at OpenAI. Skills: Agent post-training, Model behavior, Collaborative agents. Study agent personality. Translate insights into evals”

What You'll Achieve.

Ship frontier agents; Create strong tasteful default; Adapt to different people; Adapt to different situations; Ensure improvements survive training; Reach models people use

Industry & Context.

Research
Problems you'll solve

Ambiguous capability problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Technical foundations in ML, SE, stats, behavioral science, HCI

Nice to Have

Experience with LLMs, Experience with post-training, Experience with RL/RLHF, Experience with reward modeling, Experience with evals, Experience with synthetic data, Experience with pretraining data, Experience with production ML systems

What You'll Do.

Study agent personality

Translate insights into evals

Translate insights into training data

Translate insights into reward signals

Translate insights into model improvements

Develop understanding of collaborator qualities

Turn qualitative judgments into hypotheses

Turn qualitative judgments into graders

Turn qualitative judgments into training interventions

Produce preference data

Improve reward models

Improve RL objectives

Work with upstream teams

Build pipelines for data updates

Partner with product teams

Turn consumer insight into improvements

Validate model improvements

Own projects end to end

Observe behavioral failures

Experiment with models

Launch model improvements

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product teams; Human experts; Researchers; Pretraining teams; Early-training teams; ChatGPT product teams; Codex product teams; Domain experts; Human-data teams

Full Job Description

ABOUT THE TEAM The Agent Post-Training team creates the frontier agents OpenAI ships to the world. We are training the models behind our agents in Codex, ChatGPT, the API, and other frontier products: persistent, proactive intelligence that can operate computers, collaborate with people and other agents, and expand what people and organizations can imagine, attempt, and achieve. We define what the next generation of agents should be able to do, build the training signal that teaches those abilities, and run the experiments that make them real. Our work spans coding, tool use, computer use, multi-agent coordination, long-horizon execution, factuality, instruction following, calibrated reasoning, and taste. Our team builds the data, environments, graders, training methods, and feedback loops that shape what OpenAI’s next agents can do and what they are like to work with, then carries those improvements through major training runs and into products used by people every day. ABOUT THE ROLE As a member of the Agent Post-training Personality team, you will help make OpenAI’s agents exceptional collaborators. You will study what makes an agent thoughtful, clear, perceptive, appropriately proactive, and genuinely easy to work with, then translate those insights into evals, training data, reward signals, and model improvements. We use “personality” to mean much more than writing style or general likability. It includes whether an agent understands what the user is trying to accomplish, communicates with good judgment, adapts to context, asks useful questions, handles disagreement honestly and takes initiative at the right moments. The goal is to create a strong, tasteful default that can adapt to different people and situations. This work combines behavioral research, product thinking, research and communication taste. You will collaborate with product teams, human experts, and researchers across post-training and pretraining to ensure that improvements survive the full trai

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