OpenAI

AI Research and Deployment

Researcher,Context-AgentPost-Training

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

“Researcher, Context - Agent Post-Training at OpenAI. Skills: Context Researcher, Agent Post-Training, frontier agents. Design and run experiments. improve scaling of compute on context”

What You'll Achieve.

scale compute spent on context; enable the next paradigm of model training; ship improvements into products used by real people; train and ship the models that make agents genuinely useful

Industry & Context.

AI Research and Deployment
Problems you'll solve

move from a vague behavioral problem to a concrete experiment; define the hypothesis; build the pipeline; run the model; analyze the result; decide what to do next; Debug hard failures; turn messy qualitative behavior into concrete hypotheses, experiments, and fixes

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

experience with Codex Chronicle

What You'll Do.

Design and run experiments

improve scaling of compute on context

Own end-to-end improvements

Build evals and environments

Partner with Codex and ChatGPT product teams

translate product signal into model improvements

Work on early-training and alignment interventions

Help decide which integrations

Improve the machinery for large-scale training

Take on cross-functional projects

Debug hard failures in shipped or near-shipped models

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 We believe that the final enabler for AGI is spending compute on context. As a Context Researcher on Agent Post-Training, you will scale compute spent on context. You will get to work in our frontier training stack on enabling the next paradigm of model training with a clear product interface for iterative deployment (Codex Chronicle). 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 scaling of compute on context. - Own end-to-end improvements to the post-training stack, including RL, data pipelines, graders, reward signals, evals, diagnostics, and model-behavior analysis. - Build evals and environments that expose the next set of model fail

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