Researcher, Alignment Interpretability

The role

You will develop and carry out a research plan in mechanistic interpretability. You will develop and publish research on techniques for understanding representations of deep networks and engineer infrastructure for studying model internals at scale.

What you will do

• 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.

Required qualifications

• Ph.D. or research experience in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
• 2+ years of research engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python or similar languages.

Nice to have

• Experience in the field of AI safety & alignment, mechanistic interpretability, or spiritually related disciplines.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through their products.