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Phil Chen

Phil Chen cofounded Concept with TK Kong, building applied AI systems and working with physical AI teams across robotics, hardware and deployment. He previously worked on language-model research and engineering at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Scale AI; his team’s recent research examines limitations in labeling robot-training video.

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Concept

2026 — Present

Co-Founder

OpenAI

2025 — Jan 2026

Research, pretraining and reinforcement learning

Google DeepMind

Aug 2023 — Dec 2024

Staff Software Engineer

Scale AI

Oct 2021 — Aug 2023

Software Engineer

Helm

Aug 2020 — Sep 2021

Machine Learning Engineer

Citadel Securities

Jun 2020 — Aug 2020

Software Engineering Intern

Google

Jun 2019 — Sep 2019

Software Engineering Intern

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Career advice in the age of AI

A first-person essay on choosing meaningful problems, developing research judgment, investing in relationships, and finishing difficult work, informed by Phil’s own career across AI teams.

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concept.dev

Where frontier models fall short on robot-training video

Concept’s joint research with Mecka evaluates dense video captioning, human grading, frame sampling and specialized labeling models. Featured as company team research; no claim of sole authorship by Phil.

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Career advice in the age of AI

Where frontier models fall short on robot-training video

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