Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning

OpenAI
San Francisco, CA, USA2025-05-14

About the job

As a Research Engineer/Research Scientist at OpenAI, you will advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods. Your work will sit at the heart of training intelligent, aligned, and general-purpose agents, including the systems that power various models.

Responsibilities

You love being on the cutting edge of RL and language model research.

You’re a self-starter who takes initiative and ownership of ideas, driving them to completion.

You value principled approaches, simple experiments in tightly-controlled settings, and reaching trustworthy conclusions which stand the test of time.

You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically complex environment where rapid iteration is key.

You’re comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug and improve it.

You have a deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications.

Qualifications

Minimum

You have a background in reinforcement learning research.

You are able to iterate quickly.

You are proficient at coding.

You have a deep understanding of machine learning and machine learning applications.

Preferred

We’re looking for people who have a background in reinforcement learning research, are able to iterate quickly, and are proficient at coding.