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Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments

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Source: https://openai.com/careers/research-engineer-frontier-evals-and-environments-san-francisco/

Last verified Sep 16, 2026. Postings close without notice; check the source before you rely on it.

What the posting clearly emphasises

  • Agent post-training, with coding, tool use and computer use as target capabilities.
  • Multi-agent coordination and long-horizon execution.
  • Building graders, evaluations, environments and training signal.

Paraphrased from the public posting.

What that likely means for preparation

  • Evaluation design is the centre of gravity: grader construction, reward hacking, contamination, and what a benchmark stops measuring once models optimise against it.
  • Be able to design an environment out loud: task distribution, reset semantics, partial credit, and flakiness.
  • Long-horizon failure analysis matters more than single-turn accuracy. Bring one concrete trace you debugged.

Inference from the posting. Not confirmed.

What stays unknown about the loop

  • Whether an evals or environment take-home exists, and how much RL theory is expected versus systems judgment.
  • The round order, count and length. Postings describe the job, not the loop.
  • Whether AI assistants are allowed, required or banned in any coding exercise.

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