OpenAI
AI Research and Deployment
Researcher,Artifacts-AgentPost-Training
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“Researcher, Artifacts - Agent Post-Training at OpenAI. Skills: Agent Post-Training, Frontier Models, Artifact Creation. train frontier models. create polished work products”
What You'll Achieve.
create polished, useful work products; move from a vague user goal to a finished artifact; ship improvements into products used by real people; make agents genuinely useful
Industry & Context.
move from vague behavioral problem to concrete experiment; define hypothesis; build pipeline; run model; analyze result; decide what to do next; debug hard failures
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
technical fundamentals in machine learning, technical fundamentals in software engineering, technical fundamentals in systems, technical fundamentals in statistics, hands-on experience with LLMs, hands-on experience with RL, hands-on experience with RLHF/RLAIF, hands-on experience with post-training, hands-on experience with evals, hands-on experience with graders, hands-on experience with synthetic data, hands-on experience with model training, hands-on experience with coding agents, hands-on experience with tool-using agents, hands-on experience with production ML systems
Nice to Have
prior background in consulting, prior background in finance, prior background in marketing, prior background in operations, prior background in data science
What You'll Do.
train frontier models
create polished work products
move from vague user goal to finished artifact
own improvements across post-training stack
build evals and environments
turn failures into training data
partner with product teams
translate product signal into model improvements
work on early-training interventions
shape downstream agent behavior
decide integrations for model runs
improve machinery for large-scale training
take on cross-functional projects
debug hard failures in models
run experiments that improve agentic model behavior
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
work with researchers; work with engineers; work with product teams; work with infrastructure teams; work with safety/alignment partners; partner with Codex and ChatGPT product teams; comfortable working across research, product, infrastructure, data, evals, and safety boundaries; communicate clearly with each group
Communication Scope
communicate clearly with each group
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 is where new model capabilities get made. We build the data, environments, graders, training methods, and feedback loops that shape what OpenAI's next agents can do, then carry those capabilities through major training runs and into the products people use. About the Role As a member of Agent Post-Training, Artifacts, you will train frontier models to create polished, useful work products: documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, dashboards, reports, analyses, and other interactive or editable artifacts. You will help teach our models to move from a vague user goal to a finished artifact with strong structure, visual taste, domain judgment, correctness, and low latency. This work will require owning improvements across our post-training stack, including RL, data pipelines, graders, reward signals, evals, and behavioral analysis. You will work with researchers, engineers, product teams, infrastructure teams, and safety/alignment partners to decide what should go into major model runs, measure whether it worked, and ship improvements into products used by real people. This is a high-agency role for people who want their work to land directly in frontier models. In this role, you will: - Design and run experiments that improve agentic model behavior for complex
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