Eric Mitchell
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Mitchell is a machine learning engineer and PhD student at Stanford with six years of experience building and post-training frontier models at OpenAI, where he co-leads the Post-training Frontiers team responsible for models like o1, o1-pro, o3 and GPT-5 Thinking. He blends deep research rigor from academia with production-grade engineering, having previously advanced robotic manipulation at Samsung Research America and developed convolutional neural nets for 3D brain reconstruction at Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Early full‑stack and mobile founding experience—shipping iOS apps with 100k+ downloads and building React-based educational platforms—gives him a pragmatic product sensibility alongside his research focus. Based in Palo Alto, he is comfortable navigating both cutting-edge model development and the systems engineering needed to deploy them.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Princeton UniversityForsyth Country Day SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (95)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
adaptation10
numpy10
neural-network10
hyperparameter-tuning10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
language-modeling10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eric-mitchell/eric-mitchell.github.io
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 40 pushes in 1 year 3 months
eric-mitchell/mend
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
MEND: Fast Model Editing at Scale
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
pytorchmenddeep-learningmachine-learningscale
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