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Posted Jun 15, 2025Researcher, Interpretability
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- you will: - Develop and publish research on techniques for understanding representations of deep networks. - Engineer infrastructure for studying model internals at scale. - Collaborate across teams to work on projects that OpenAI is uniquely suited to pursue. - Guide research directions toward demonstrable usefulness and/or long-term scalability.
Requirements
- We are particularly interested in applying our understanding to ensure the safety of powerful AI systems.
- ABOUT THE ROLE OpenAI is seeking a researcher passionate about understanding deep networks, with a strong background in engineering, quantitative reasoning, and the research process.
- benefits all of humanity, and are aligned with OpenAI’s charter https://openai.com/charter/. - Show enthusiasm for long-term AI safety, and have thought deeply about technical paths to safe AGI. - Bring
- experience in the field of AI safety, mechanistic interpretability, or spiritually related disciplines. - Hold a Ph.D. or have research
- experience in computer science, machine learning, or a related field. - Thrive in environments involving large-scale AI systems, and are excited to make use of OpenAI’s unique resources in this area. - Possess 2+ years of research engineering
- experience and proficiency in Python or similar languages. - Are deeply curious.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
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- You might thrive in this role if you: - Are excited about OpenAI’s mission https://openai.com/about/ of ensuring AGI
Additional details
- ABOUT THE TEAM The Interpretability team studies internal representations of deep learning models.
- We are interested in using representations to understand model behavior, and in engineering models to have more understandable representations.
- Our working style is collaborative and curiosity-driven.
- You will develop and carry out a research plan in mechanistic interpretability, in close collaboration with a highly motivated team.
- You will play a critical role in helping OpenAI ensure future models remain safe even as they grow in capability.
- This will make a significant impact on our goal of building and deploying safe AGI. In this role,