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Researcher, Safety Oversight

OpenAI· Safety Systems
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San Francisco$380k - $500kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior researcher role in OpenAI's Safety Oversight Research team focused on developing oversight over frontier AI models, mitigating misuse and misalignment, and defining how safe AI systems should look in the future.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and refine AI monitor models to detect and mitigate known and emerging patterns of misuse and misalignment.
  • Set research directions and strategies to make our AI systems safer, more aligned, and more robust.
  • Evaluate and design effective red-teaming pipelines to examine the end-to-end robustness of our safety systems, and identify areas for future improvement.
  • Conduct research to improve models’ ability to reason about questions of human values, and apply these improved models to practical safety challenges.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including T&S, legal, policy and other research teams, to ensure that our products meet the highest safety standards.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in AI safety, especially in areas like RLHF, human-AI collaboration, fairness & biases.
  • Ph.D. or other degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
  • 4+ years of research engineering experience and proficiency in Python or similar languages.

Skills

Required:AI safety researchPh.D. in CS/ML or relatedResearch engineering with Python

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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