Research Scientist, Multimodal (Post-training)
OpenAI
About the Team
Our team is responsible for the Post-training or alignment of ChatGPT. We integrate various improvements from the rest of the company into our RLHF process ultimately producing the models used by millions of users both in the ChatGPT product and API.
About the Role
As a Member of Technical Staff on our team, you will research and develop improvements to multimodal capabilities of our AI models, including data collection, exploring data trade-offs for vision perception tasks, and evaluations. The ideal candidate will have a strong research background working on general computer vision and have experience in either image generation or video related research. Experience in optimizing model run-time is a plus. 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:Be responsible for setting up data collection pipelinesBuilding evals for new capabilities and evaluating our systemsExperimenting with new multimodal capabilitiesAnalyzing model behavior and finding weaknessesBe willing to dive into large ML codebases to debugBe responsible for keeping very large ML training jobs going smoothlyFixing a variety of non-ml software things involving data quality, data prep, job startup speedYou might thrive in this role if you:Are a team player – willing to do a variety of tasks that move the team forwardExperience with large multimodal systemsProven record of successful research projects in vision or speechDeep understanding of current computer vision or speech researchExperience debugging ML systemsExperience with transformersExperience with the pythonExperience working in complex technical environments
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. For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt 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.