Research Engineer​/Research Scientist -Personal AGI, Proactivity

About the Team

The Proactivity Research team, within OpenAI’s Personal AGI team, focuses on building proactive AI for ChatGPT and future products. It lays the technical foundations for AI that anticipates user needs, adapts to goals and preferences, and deeply understands the user.

Research Engineer / Scientist position. Research and develop personalization and agentic capabilities for models. Work on reinforcement learning, dataset creation, evaluations, and post‑training methods. Collaborate with research and product teams to realize a highly personalized, proactive assistant.

• Own & pursue a research agenda to improve model proactivity and assist user goals.
• 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 shape technical solutions in the product.

• Strong ML engineering skills and research experience with novel, high‑performance models.
• Deep understanding of machine learning and applications.
• Knowledge of large‑language‑model post‑training and evaluation approaches.
• Passion for personalization and enabling users to achieve their goals.
• Comfortable debugging large ML codebases.
• Thrives in a dynamic, technically complex environment.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. Hybrid work model: 3 days in office per week. Relocation assistance offered.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.