Researcher, Agent Post-Training, Personality

Help make OpenAI's agents exceptional collaborators by understanding user signals and behaviors.

• •As a member of the Agent Post-training Personality team, you will help make OpenAI’s agents exceptional collaborators.
• •Key Responsibilities Develop a rigorous understanding of what makes an agent a great collaborator across professional, creative, technical, and everyday work.
• •Turn qualitative judgments about model behavior into concrete hypotheses, evals, graders, and training interventions.
• •Study explicit and implicit user signals to understand which behaviors create trust, satisfaction, continued use, and successful outcomes.
• •Requirements Think instinctively from the user’s perspective and care deeply about how models feel to work with, not only how they perform on benchmarks.
• •Can translate subjective-seeming product questions into falsifiable hypotheses and rigorous evaluations without losing the nuance that made the question important.
• •Care about preserving individuality, adaptability, and behavioral diversity rather than optimizing every model toward one narrow style.