Yongjun Chen

Work

reflecting on how best to contribute in this new era 🌱

Jobs

OpenAI codex core agent

2026.07 - present

evaluated GPT-6: Astra, Sol, Luna in Codex, with a focus on agentic coding, CUA, memory/compaction, connector usage, and reasoning calibration; iterated toward a secure, reliable eval environment; helped incubate an agent-driven evaluation system for R&D.

Augment Code quality and cost

2026.01 - 2026.07

improved coding agent quality with better context and failure analysis; explored training lower-cost subagents with multi-agent RL.

About

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI; worked at Augment Code, Apple and Salesforce AI Research; studied Statistics in Wuhan and Computer Science in Washington State.