OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization
$380K–$500K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
About the job
Research and develop frontier-model memory and personalization improvements, including post-training methods and evaluations, for personalized assistants.
What you'll do
- Own a research agenda for improving memory use and personalization in frontier models.
- Build evaluations and design, implement, test, and debug research code.
- Collaborate with research and product teams on technical solutions for product experiences.
What they ask for
- Background in frontier model post-training.
- Deep understanding of frontier model post-training and machine learning applications.
- Experience with user signals and human data to turn feedback into reliable training and evaluation signals.
- Ability to debug within a large ML codebase.
Nice to have
- Passion for personalization and building personalized assistants.
- Commitment to principled approaches and research craftsmanship.
Pay
$380K – $500K USD base salary
AI focus
Research and develop model memory, personalization, reinforcement learning, dataset creation, evaluations, and other post-training methods.
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