OpenAI Is Hiring a Research Engineer
for Model Experience in San Francisco

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Key facts from the official posting, published 22 July 2026:

• Company — OpenAI.
• Role — Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Personal AGI, Model Experience.
• Team — within OpenAI's Personal AGI group, which trains and improves the models deployed into ChatGPT and the API.
• Location — San Francisco, CA, hybrid, 3 days in the office per week.
• Employment type — Full Time.
• Compensation — $380,000-$500,000 USD per year plus equity.
• Relocation — relocation assistance offered to new employees.
• Apply channel — OpenAI's official careers site and its official job board.

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The Personal AGI team is responsible for training and improving the pre-trained models deployed into ChatGPT, the API and potential future products. Within it, the Model Experience team shapes the default character and behaviour of ChatGPT: how the model communicates, responds to users, uses its capabilities, and behaves across different contexts and languages. The posting describes the team's goal as taking an opinionated view of what good human-AI interaction should look like, then turning that vision into real model behaviour through human data, evaluations, reward models and post-training.

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What you would do

• Own and pursue a research agenda to improve model capability and performance.
• Collaborate closely with other research and product teams, allowing customers to optimise their own models.
• Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
• Design, implement, test and debug code across the research stack.

What they are looking for

• A deep understanding of machine learning and its applications.
• Good judgment about model behavior, and the ability to communicate that judgment effectively.
• A tendency to enjoy ambitious, qualitative problems and turn them into concrete training interventions.
• A working knowledge of relevant models, and experience building evaluations for model capability improvement.
• Comfort diving into a large ML codebase to debug.
• Fluency in a dynamic, technically complex and collaborative environment.

How to Apply

Apply only through official OpenAI channels:

• Role listing — https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/872ca3d0-c8c0-4585-9a34-7f9ed6b4dbf9
• OpenAI careers — https://openai.com/careers/

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