About the Team
The Personalization-Memory team, within OpenAI's broader Post Training organization, is focused on developing agents that can learn from prior interactions in order to become more helpful and efficient over time. We build general-purpose memory and personalization capabilities that transfer across ChatGPT and other agentic products, and we collaborate with applied engineering on the product surfaces that allow users to interact with memory.
About the Role
As a Research Engineer / Research Scientist on the Personalization-Memory team, your work will span memory architecture, post-training, and developing long-horizon tasks for training and evaluations.
We're looking for individuals who have a background in reinforcement learning research, are able to iterate quickly, and who can convert scientific rigor and long-term research into realized product impact.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Own and pursue a research agenda for improving long-horizon memory and personalization in frontier models.
Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
Design, implement, test, and debug code across our research stack.
Collaborate closely with the research and product teams to influence the shape of technical solutions in the product.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Love being on the cutting edge of RL and frontier model research.
Value principled approaches and research craftsmanship.
Are passionate about long-horizon tasks, memory, and turning your research into product impact.
Are comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug.
Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically complex environment.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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Skills Required
- Background in reinforcement learning research
- Experience with memory architectures, personalization, or long-horizon tasks
- Ability to design and build robust evaluations for modeling improvements
- Proven ability to design, implement, test, and debug code across a research stack
- Ability to collaborate with research and product teams to influence technical solutions
- Based in San Francisco, CA and work hybrid (approximately 3 days per week in office)
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, technically complex environment and iterating quickly
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families, with employer-covered premiums in key hubs. Health benefits are frequently described as robust and a core part of the package.
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Retirement Support — Observations indicate access to a 401(k) alongside substantial total compensation structures. This pairing is positioned as attractive for long-term financial planning.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee packages are portrayed as heavily weighted toward equity and profit-participation components. Feedback suggests these long-term incentives can be a significant upside in a high-growth environment.
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What We Do
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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