OpenAI
AI Research and Deployment
Researcher,Context-AgentPost-Training
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“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.
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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