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Research Engineer / Scientist, Personal AGI (Personalization)

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Source: https://openai.com/careers/research-engineer-research-scientist-personal-agi-personalization-san-francisco/

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

What the posting clearly emphasises

  • Memory and personalization as research problems.
  • Reinforcement learning, datasets and evaluations.
  • User signals and human data feeding product-driven research.

Paraphrased from the public posting.

What that likely means for preparation

  • Expect to reason about measuring personalization without a clean label: proxy metrics, user signal quality, and how a metric can be gamed by the model.
  • Memory architecture questions are plausible: what to store, when to forget, and how retrieval of personal context interacts with safety.
  • Have a position on human data pipelines: who labels, quality control, and disagreement.

Inference from the posting. Not confirmed.

What stays unknown about the loop

  • Whether the loop leans research-scientist (methods, prior work) or research-engineer (systems, throughput).
  • 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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