Research Scientist

2 weeks ago


San Francisco, California, United States Openai Full time
About the Team

The Safety Systems team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models in real-world applications. Our Health AI team focuses on enabling universal access to high-quality medical information, working at the intersection of AI safety research and healthcare applications.

About the Role

We're seeking strong researchers who are passionate about advancing AI safety and improving global health outcomes. As a Research Scientist, you will contribute to the development of safe and effective AI models for healthcare applications, implementing practical and general methods to improve model behavior, knowledge, and reasoning.

  • Design and apply scalable methods to improve safety and reliability of our models, including RLHF, automated red teaming, and scalable oversight.
  • Evaluate methods using health-related data, ensuring models provide accurate, reliable, and trustworthy information.
  • Build reusable libraries for applying general alignment techniques to our models.
  • Proactively identify areas of risk and work with cross-team stakeholders to integrate methods in core model training and launch safety improvements in OpenAI's products.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Are excited about OpenAI's mission of ensuring AGI is universally beneficial and are aligned with OpenAI's charter.
  • Demonstrate passion for AI safety and improving global health outcomes.
  • Have 4+ years of experience with deep learning research and LLMs, especially practical alignment topics such as RLHF, automated red teaming, and scalable oversight.
  • Hold a Ph.D. or other degree in computer science, AI, machine learning, or a related field.
  • Stay goal-oriented and are not afraid of unglamorous but high-value work when needed.
  • Possess experience making practical model improvements for AI model deployment.
  • Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.
  • Are a team player who enjoys collaborative work environments.
  • Bonus: possess experience in health-related AI research or deployments.

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 AI capabilities 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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