• We are hiring for a contract User Researcher to start ASAP for a 6 month contract. • The role is completely remote. • Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

Role Description Driving and leading research initiatives under the guidance of a Portfolio Manager to enhance statistical arbitrage-based quantitative models. - Developing advanced statistical and computational methods to work with massive data sets. - Collaborating with the Project Manager and other team members to improve the existing research environment. - Taking a proactive approach to problem-solving, demonstrating a high level of motivation and initiative in the pursuit of innovative trading strategies. - Exploring new methodologies and approaches to stay at the forefront of quantitative finance. - Staying informed about market trends, emerging technologies, and advancements in quantitative finance. Qualifications - Master's degree (US or Foreign Equivalent) in Financial Engineering or a related field. - Two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in a related financial engineering role. Requirements - Two (2) years of experience with statistical arbitrage in cash equities. - Feature engineering techniques applicable to price predictions. - Quantitative finance concepts, statistics, and financial markets. - Mid-frequency alpha research. - Customizing back testing algorithms. - Machine Learning predictive models. Benefits - Salary: $150,000 - $200,000/year. - Work schedule: 9am to 5pm, 40 hours a week.

• Own and drive end-to-end UX research projects across multiple products and user segments • Design and execute mixed-method research (qualitative + quantitative) to understand user behavior, needs, and pain points • Translate research findings into clear, actionable recommendations for product, design, and business teams • Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Analytics, and ML teams to shape hypotheses and validate product decisions • Integrate research into the product development lifecycle — from discovery to post-release evaluation • Identify opportunities to improve key product metrics (conversion, retention, engagement) through user insights • Present findings to stakeholders at different levels, influencing decisions with evidence rather than opinions • Contribute to building scalable research processes, frameworks, and tooling

Title: Researcher, Alignment Oversight Location: San Francisco Department: Research Compensation $250K – $445K • Offers Equity The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits. - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided. This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions. Job Description: About the Team The Alignment Oversight team at OpenAI develops techniques for improving control, accountability, and alignment as AI systems become more capable and agentic. We also study how to learn from real-world deployments: using oversight data and human interventions to train future models to be more aligned, while preserving the effectiveness and independence of the oversight systems themselves. About the Role As a researcher on the Alignment team, you will design and run experiments that improve our ability to oversee increasingly capable models. You will work on hands-on model training, evaluation design, and research infrastructure, and translating promising oversight ideas into systems that can operate on real model traffic and real user workflows. This role combines longer-horizon research with shorter deployment sprints, with projects typically scoped around 3-6 month research timelines and aimed at directly improving future model behavior. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: - Design and implement alignment experiments focused on oversight systems for increasingly agentic AI models. - Deploy practical systems for action monitoring, red-teaming, and human-in-the-loop control. - Develop evaluations for alignment failure modes of the frontier models such as overeagerness, instruction following failures, covert actions, avoiding restrictions and scheming propensity. - Analyze deployment data to understand model failures, oversight gaps, and opportunities for training more aligned models. - Develop techniques for feeding oversight signals back into training while preserving the reliability and independence of the oversight process. - Produce externally publishable research when results advance the broader science of alignment. - Collaborate across research, product, security, safety, and engineering teams to turn alignment ideas into working systems. - Move quickly from research intuition to working experiments, prototypes, and evidence that can shape future models. You might thrive in this role if you: - Have strong hands-on experience training, evaluating, or debugging large ML models, especially LLMs. - Have experience with reinforcement learning, post-training, preference optimization, scalable oversight, model evaluation, or adjacent empirical ML research. - Have strong engineering execution and can turn ambiguous research ideas into reliable experiments, tools, training pipelines, and production-facing systems. - Have research intuitions for what experiments are likely to teach us something, while staying grounded in implementation details and empirical results. - Are a team player - willing to do a variety of tasks that move the team forward. - Enjoy fast-paced, collaborative research environments where priorities shift as models and evidence change. - See safety and usefulness as coupled goals. About OpenAI 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 to the world 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. 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. 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, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. 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