Research Engineer, Notifcations at OpenAI

San Francisco, California, United States

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$325,000 – $590,000Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building and deploying ranking, recommendation, or personalization systems at scale
  • Deep understanding of machine learning and its applications, with exposure to LLMs and their integration into product experiences
  • Experienced in experimentation, A/B testing, and analyzing impact on user behavior and business metrics
  • Comfortable diving into large ML codebases, designing evaluations, and debugging complex modeling issues
  • Thrive in dynamic, fast-changing environments and can think from first principles to design elegant solutions
  • Strong product intuition and can balance modeling sophistication with product impact
  • Strong ML fundamentals, experience shipping ranking or recommendation systems in production, exposure to LLMs, and sharp product intuition

Responsibilities

  • Design and build end-to-end ranking and recommendation systems for notifications, from modeling to evaluation and deployment
  • Apply and adapt LLMs to ranking problems, including prompt-based approaches and fine-tuning
  • Develop experiments to evaluate notification relevance, user value, and long-term impact, working closely with product, data science, and engineering teams
  • Collaborate with research teams to leverage the latest modeling techniques while balancing practical constraints of production systems
  • Build robust offline and online evaluations to measure system improvements and user outcomes
  • Contribute to the broader Growth ML stack and help set technical direction for intelligent user engagement systems

Skills

Machine Learning
Ranking Systems
Recommendation Systems
LLMs
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
A/B Testing
Scalable Systems

OpenAI

Develops safe and beneficial AI technologies

About OpenAI

OpenAI develops and deploys artificial intelligence technologies aimed at benefiting humanity. The company creates advanced AI models capable of performing various tasks, such as automating processes and enhancing creativity. OpenAI's products, like Sora, allow users to generate videos from text descriptions, showcasing the versatility of its AI applications. Unlike many competitors, OpenAI operates under a capped profit model, which limits the profits it can make and ensures that excess earnings are redistributed to maximize the social benefits of AI. This commitment to safety and ethical considerations is central to its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) serves all of humanity.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$18,433.2MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
Mental healthcare service
Fertility treatment coverage
401(k) with generous matching
20-week paid parental leave
Life insurance (complimentary)
AD&D insurance (complimentary)
Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
Optional buy-up life insurance
Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
Annual learning & development stipend
Regular team happy hours and outings
Daily catered lunch and dinner
Travel to domestic conferences

Risks

Elon Musk's legal battle may pose financial and reputational challenges for OpenAI.
Customizable ChatGPT personas could lead to privacy and ethical concerns.
Competitors like Anthropic raising capital may intensify market competition.

Differentiation

OpenAI's capped profit model prioritizes ethical AI development over unlimited profit.
OpenAI's AI models, like Sora, offer unique video creation from text descriptions.
OpenAI's focus on AGI aims to create AI systems smarter than humans.

Upsides

OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding boosts its AI research and computational capacity.
Customizable ChatGPT personas enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
OpenAI's 'Operator' AI agent could revolutionize workforce automation by 2025.

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