Research Scientist, Multimodal (Post-training)
OpenAI
Job Description
About the Team
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.
About the Role
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 and have experience in either image generation or video related research. Experience in optimizing model run-time is a plus.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
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
You might thrive in this role if you:
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
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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