OpenAI
AI Research and Deployment
Researcher,ConnectorsAgentPostTraining
“Researcher, Connectors - Agent Post-Training at OpenAI. Skills: Agent Post-Training, LLMs, RL. Design and run experiments. improve agentic model behavior”
What You'll Achieve.
improve agentic model behavior; ship improvements into products; make agents genuinely useful
Industry & Context.
open-ended problems; vague behavioral problem to a concrete experiment; define the hypothesis; build the pipeline; run the model; analyze the result; decide what to do next; messy qualitative behavior into concrete hypotheses
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
technical fundamentals in machine learning, software engineering, systems, statistics, hands-on experience with LLMs, RL, RLHF/RLAIF, post-training, evals, graders, synthetic data, model training, coding agents, tool-using agents, production ML systems
Nice to Have
experience with Python and machine learning frameworks, experience with Slack, experience with Google Workspace, experience with GitHub, experience with Notion, experience with Linear, experience with Salesforce
What You'll Do.
Design and run experiments
improve agentic model behavior
Own end-to-end improvements
Build evals and environments
expose model failures
Partner with product teams
translate product signal
Work on training and alignment interventions
Help decide integrations
Improve machinery for training
Take on cross-functional projects
turn qualitative behavior into hypotheses
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with researchers; engineers; product teams; infrastructure teams; safety/alignment partners; Work across research; product; infrastructure; data; evals; safety boundaries
Communication Scope
communicate clearly with each group
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