OpenAI

AI Research and Deployment

Researcher,ConnectorsAgentPostTraining

$250–380k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“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.

AI Research and Deployment
Problems you'll solve

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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