What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning (Training) position at OpenAI?
About the Team
The Training Core Algorithms / Reinforcement Learning team is responsible for researching and developing the next generation of algorithms to power our RLHF stack (reinforcement learning from human feedback). The algorithms we develop are used in ChatGPT consumer product and the OpenAI API.
About the Role
As a Member of Technical Staff on our team, you will research and develop improvements to all components of our RLHF stack, including data collection, supervised finetuning, reward modeling, off- and on-policy learning, active learning, and evaluations. The ultimate test for our algorithms is how useful they are to our users, and we often deploy our algorithms into new ChatGPT models.
We're looking for people who have extensive background in reinforcement learning research, are able to iterate quickly, and are proficient at coding.
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 :
- Come up with improvements to RLHF
- Prototype and evaluate these ideas
- Scale up your innovations to ChatGPT scale
You might thrive in this role if you :
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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.
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