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Research Engineer / Scientist, Personal AGI (Model Experience)

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Source: https://openai.com/careers/research-engineerresearch-scientist-personal-agi-model-experience-san-francisco/

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

What the posting clearly emphasises

  • Model behaviour and human-AI interaction.
  • Reinforcement learning, reward models and human data.
  • Evaluations feeding product-driven post-training.

Paraphrased from the public posting.

What that likely means for preparation

  • Behaviour is the artefact here: be able to specify intended model behaviour precisely enough that someone else could grade it.
  • Reward modelling and preference data questions are likely, including where preference data misleads.
  • Prepare one example where you changed model behaviour and measured whether users were actually better off.

Inference from the posting. Not confirmed.

What stays unknown about the loop

  • How much taste-and-judgment discussion sits alongside technical rounds, and whether a written exercise is used.
  • 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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