Research Engineer, Post-Training Multimodal
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.
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 or speech systems. Experience in optimizing model run-time is a plus.
In this role, you will:
- Be responsible for setting up data collection pipelines
- Building evals for new capabilities and evaluating our systems
- Experimenting with new multimodal capabilities
- Analyzing model behavior and finding weaknesses
- Be willing to dive into large ML codebases to debug
- Be responsible for keeping very large ML training jobs going smoothly
- Fixing a variety of non-ml software things involving data quality, data prep, job startup speed
- Are a team player – willing to do a variety of tasks that move the team forward
- Experience with large multimodal systems
- Proven record of successful research projects in vision or speech
- Deep understanding of current computer vision or speech research
- Experience debugging ML systems
- Experience with transformers
- Experience with the python
- Experience working in complex technical environments
Compensation, Benefits and Perks
Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
- Mental health and wellness support
- 401(k) plan with 50% matching
- Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
- Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
- Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)
About OpenAI
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