Summary
Christina Kim is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently leading alignment training and previously co-creating core ChatGPT capabilities and leading chat post-training. Her work bridges research and product execution, drawing on a Research Scholar project on scaling laws for language transfer learning that highlights a strong foundation in ML theory. As a former founding engineer at Sourceress and a Recurse Center fellow, she brings startup grit and deep hands-on engineering across the stack. Collected experience at OpenAI shows she moves fluidly between prototyping research ideas and shipping robust, production-facing systems. Based in the United States with a B.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern, she combines academic rigor with practical impact on some of the most widely used conversational AI systems today. Colleagues describe her as someone who balances technical leadership with meticulous attention to model behavior and safety details that aren’t always visible in public releases.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Northwestern University