About the position
This job posting is for a Research Scientist at OpenAI, with the opportunity to work across all teams. The role involves developing innovative machine learning techniques and advancing the research agenda of the team, while collaborating with peers across the organization. The ideal candidate should have a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, and be excited about OpenAI’s approach to research. Nice to have qualifications include an interest in the impacts of AI technology and past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms.
Responsibilities
- Develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda of the team
- Collaborate with peers across the organization
- Come up with new ideas or improve upon existing ideas in machine learning
- Own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects
- Conduct exploratory research and drive algorithmic and architectural advances on the critical path to AGI
- Fine-tune large language models to perform tasks in accordance with the user's intentions
- Develop innovative solutions and open-ended research to solve real-world problems
- Research and develop AI programmers, the neural models that write, debug and improve computer programs
- Develop GPT advancements by exploring and forecasting future capabilities and resource needs
- Help models learn to solve problems in informal natural text and prove theorems in formal languages like Lean.
Requirements
- Have a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects
- Possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects
- Be excited about OpenAI’s approach to research
- Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology (nice to have)
- Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms (nice to have)