OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory
$380K–$500K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
About the job
Develop memory and personalization capabilities for frontier models, from research and evaluation through product impact.
What you'll do
- Pursue research to improve long-horizon memory and personalization in frontier models.
- Build evaluations to track modeling improvements and design, implement, test, and debug research code.
- Collaborate with research and product teams to shape technical solutions in the product.
What they ask for
- Background in reinforcement learning research.
- Ability to iterate quickly and translate rigorous research into product impact.
- Comfort debugging a large ML codebase.
Nice to have
Pay
$380K – $500K USD base salary
AI focus
Research and develop AI agents with long-horizon memory and personalization, including reinforcement learning, post-training, and training and evaluation tasks.
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