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Researcher, Interpretability

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2025-06-15 → 2026-09-27

Core

Developing and publishing research on techniques for understanding representations of deep networks to ensure the safety of powerful AI systems.

Role type

Researcher, mechanistic interpretability

Builds

Research publications and infrastructure for studying model internals at scale

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, AI Safety

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

mechanistic interpretability, quantitative reasoning, research process, Python, research engineering

Preferred skills

AI safety, long-term AI safety, large-scale AI systems

Technologies

Python

Responsibilities

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

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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