Researcher, Training - London

About the Team

OpenAI's Training team is responsible for producing the large language models that power our research, our products, and ultimately bring us closer to AGI. The team combines deep research into improving our current architecture and optimization techniques with long term bets aimed at enhancing the efficiency and capability of future generations of models. We integrate these techniques and produce model artifacts used by the rest of the company, ensuring that these models are world class in every respect.

About the Role

As a member of the training team, you will push the frontier of LLM development for OpenAI's flagship models, enhancing intelligence, efficiency, and adding new capabilities. Relevant interests may include architecture design, long context and efficient attention, optimization and the science of scaling. Ideal candidates have a deep understanding of LLM architectures, a sophisticated understanding of model inference, and a hands on empirical approach. A good fit for this role will be equally happy coming up with a creative breakthrough, investing in strengthening a baseline, designing an eval, debugging a thorny regression, or tracking down a bottleneck.

This role is based in London. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype and scale up new architectures to improve model intelligence
• Execute and analyze experiments autonomously and collaboratively
• Study, debug, and optimize both model performance and computational performance
• Contribute to training and inference infrastructure

Key Qualities

• Experience landing contributions to major LLM training runs
• Thoroughly evaluate and improve deep learning architectures in a self directed fashion
• Motivated by safely deploying LLMs in the real world
• Well versed in the state of the art transformer modifications for efficiency

Workplace & Location

London office; no remote work considered at this time. In person employees receive relocation support and work under a hybrid schedule: three days a week in the office with the option to work from home on Thursdays and Fridays. Offices include adjustable desks, phone booths, conference rooms, stocked kitchens, and cozy spots to unwind.

OpenAI Overview

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

Equal Opportunity and Legal Notices

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affiliation Statement. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via the provided link.