OpenAI
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars
$380K–$500K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
About the job
Develop and evaluate model capabilities for personalized AI experiences, translating behavior bottlenecks into improvements to evaluations, training, rewards, and models.
What you'll do
- Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance.
- Build robust evaluations to track modeling improvements.
- Design, implement, test, and debug code across the research stack.
What they ask for
- Deep understanding of machine learning and its applications.
- Working knowledge of relevant models and building evaluations for model capability improvement.
- Comfort debugging in a large ML codebase.
Pay
$380K – $500K (base salary)
AI focus
Improve AI model capabilities and behavior, including tool use, feature discovery, connectors, instruction following, and personalization.
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