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Researcher, Alignment

OpenAI· Research
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San Francisco$295k - $500k + bonusFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Role focused on designing and implementing scalable alignment solutions to ensure AI systems follow human intent, with emphasis on human oversight, evaluation, and robustness in complex scenarios. OpenAI team emphasizes safety, trustworthiness, and alignment as capabilities grow.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and evaluate alignment capabilities that are subjective, context-dependent, and hard to measure.
  • Design evaluations to reliably measure risks and alignment with human intent and values.
  • Build tools and evaluations to study and test model robustness in different situations.
  • Design experiments to understand laws for how alignment scales as a function of compute, data, lengths of context and action, as well as resources of adversaries.
  • Design and evaluate new Human-AI-interaction paradigms and scalable oversight methods that redefine how humans interact with, understand, and supervise our models.
  • Train model to be calibrated on correctness and risk.
  • Designing novel approaches for using AI in alignment research

Qualifications

  • PhD or equivalent experience in research in computer science, computational science, data science, cognitive science, or similar fields

Skills

Required:PhD or equivalent research backgroundLarge-scale ML systems design
Nice to have:Human-AI interaction / oversightData visualization or data collection interfaces

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
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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