Researcher, Alignment Training

OpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States

Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full time
Posted
June 07, 2026

Job Description

About The Team

The Alignment Training team studies how frontier models acquire durable behavioral tendencies across the training stack. We work on identifying which behaviors can be shaped through pre-training, mid-training, and post-training; building the data, objectives, and evaluations needed to influence them; and determining whether the resulting behavior reflects a general learned tendency or a narrow artifact of the training distribution.

Our work spans synthetic data, pre-training, mid-training, post-training, model behavior, and evaluation. We study how models learn to interpret intent, follow instructions, reason through tasks, express uncertainty, act honestly, and remain reliable under new conditions. The goal is to make desirable tendencies emerge early, strengthen throughout training, and appear robustly in deployed systems.

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