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Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing

OpenAI · San Francisco · On-site

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About OpenAI

Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.

About the role

We’re looking for an exceptional, hands-on researcher to turn difficult-to-define signals of long-term flourishing into measurable improvements in model behavior. You’ll help set research direction, build what is needed to test your ideas, and drive successful work into the models and products we ship. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

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The Human Flourishing team’s mission is to ensure AI systems understand and advance human flourishing. As AI becomes more capable and plays a larger role in people’s lives, we want its human benefits to grow with its capabilities. The Human Flourishing team is part of the broader Post Training organization.

Our approach has two parts. Firstly, we measure and improve models’ understanding, capability, and propensity to act according to people’s values and to help them achieve their long-term goals. Secondly, we directly scale tangible impact for users in human domains like education and mental health, working across research, product, and partnerships to increase the benefits over a billion people experience weekly when they use ChatGPT.

Our recent work includes Beneficial RL , which investigates how training for beneficial behavior generalizes across settings, and MentalHealthBench , a benchmark developed with mental health experts to evaluate realistic conversations.

We’re looking for an exceptional, hands-on researcher to turn difficult-to-define signals of long-term flourishing into measurable improvements in model behavior. You’ll help set research direction, build what is...

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