Residency - Model Behavior

About the Program

The OpenAI Residency is a six-month program designed to enable exceptional engineers and researchers from diverse fields to transition into artificial intelligence.

We look for candidates with excellent track records and high potential. OpenAI has long been home to many self-taught researchers and engineers and we seek out candidates both inside and outside of traditional education and work settings. The program strives to include a diverse set of skills and backgrounds that reflect the human experience so our work can do the same.

About the Role
We are currently recruiting Resident candidates specifically to join our Model Behavior team. As a Resident with the Model Behavior Team, you will be integrated into their research team with mentorship from an experienced OpenAI Researcher. We expect the Resident to ramp up quickly over the six month program to become full time contributors.

The role is based in our San Francisco, California HQ. We offer a flexible work environment, encouraging Residents to come into the office at least 3 days a week. We will also provide relocation assistance as needed. We do not allow Residents to work remotely or from our satellite offices.

About the Team

The model behavior team defines the core behavior of models using alignment methods such as RLHF / RLAIF to reflect fundamental values and improve creative intelligence. We leverage this work to develop innovative human-AI interfaces / interaction paradigms in a tight collaboration with product design and engineering teams. Our team produces artifacts, impacting millions of users. 

As a resident on this team, you may:

• Design challenging evaluations related to creative intelligence 

• Develop scalable synthetic data  techniques 

• Train models and run experiments to study data quality  

• Iterate on research experiments, clearly communicating insights to the team 

• Integrate core model behaviors into models that power ChatGPT 

• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to bring conceptual prototypes from the research phase into production

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are a team player – willing to do a variety of tasks that move the team forward.

• Are highly skilled in Python. 

• Familiarity with data processing and data analysis

• Familiarity with human and synthetic data for evaluation or model training

• Familiarity Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Large Language Models and related infrastructure (e.g. PyTorch)

• Familiarity with product development cycles

• Bonus: Familiarity with synthetic data generation methods

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. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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