# Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $295K - $555K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/1bf678c5-1058-45ca-b9bd-b0029fccd60e?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ea551780-02c ## Description ## Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this position is $295K – $555K, and total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Benefits include: - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends ## About the Team The Personalization-Memory team, within OpenAI's broader Personal AGI organization, focuses on developing agents that can learn from prior interactions to become more helpful and efficient over time. They build general-purpose memory and personalization capabilities that transfer across ChatGPT and other agentic products, collaborating with applied engineering on product surfaces that allow users to interact with memory. ## About the Role As a Research Engineer / Research Scientist on the Personalization-Memory team, you will research and develop improvements to memory usage and personalization in OpenAI's frontier models. The team works on reinforcement learning, dataset creation, evaluations, and other post-training methods, partnering closely with research and product teams across the company to realize the vision of a truly personalized ChatGPT. ## Responsibilities - Own and pursue a research agenda for improving memory use and personalization in frontier models. - Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements. - Design, implement, test, and debug code across the research stack. - Collaborate closely with research and product teams to influence the shape of technical solutions in the product. ## Requirements - Passionate about personalization and building personalized assistants. - Experience working with user signals and human data to turn feedback into reliable signals for training and evaluation. - Deep understanding of frontier model post-training and machine learning applications. - Principled approaches and research craftsmanship. - Comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug. - Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically complex environment. ## Skills ### Required - reinforcement learning - dataset creation - evaluations - post-training methods - machine learning applications ### Nice to have - frontier model post-training - personalization - memory usage --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/1bf678c5-1058-45ca-b9bd-b0029fccd60e?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)