Daniel A. Roberts

Career path.

1. OpenAI

   Lead (Foundations of Reinforcement Learning)

   Aug 2025 - Present
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

   Visiting Scientist

   Sep 2020 - Present
3. OpenAI

   Technical Lead (Science of Reinforcement Learning)

   Apr 2025 - Jul 2025
4. OpenAI

   Member of Technical Staff

   May 2024 - Apr 2025
5. Sequoia Capital

   AI Fellow

   Jun 2023 - May 2024
6. Salesforce

   Principal Researcher

   Nov 2019 - Mar 2023
7. Facebook

   Research Scientist @ Facebook AI Research

   Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
8. Institute for Advanced Study

   Postdoctoral Researcher

   Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
9. Diffeo

   Co-Founder, CTO

   Sep 2012 - Nov 2019