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Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity

OpenAI· Applied AI
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San Francisco, New York City$198k - $425kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Protection Scientists design, orchestrate, and mature defense systems against usage harms enabled by OpenAI's products within the Integrity team, focusing on harm detection, strategy, and cross-functional delivery for product launches and ongoing protection.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive protection strategy for a harm area or launch. Translate ambiguous risks into goals, priorities and roadmaps, and make trade-offs based on evidence, risk and available capacity.
  • Directly build and maintain harm detection. Develop production signals, classifiers and pipelines using SQL, Python, machine learning and language models, integrating with shared engineering platforms.
  • Lead cross-functional execution. Translate between specialist roles, establish shared understanding and ownership, resolve technical and organisational dependencies, and communicate recommendations and specific asks clearly.
  • Investigate emerging harms and abuse patterns. Work with world class domain experts to distinguish harmful activity from legitimate use, develop detection criteria, and inform policies and review protocols with Policy and Operations partners.
  • Evaluate and improve the complete system of defence. Measure remaining harm, detection quality and intervention effectiveness and collaborate with Data Science on more sophisticated metrics. Use expert feedback and operational outcomes to guide improvements.
  • Protect product and model launches. Define data, detection and review requirements; establish monitoring; investigate gaps and critical escalations; and drive improvements informed by post-launch findings.
  • Scale effective approaches with language models, agents and reusable tools. Choose where automation and human judgement are needed, and build documentation and processes that improve reliability and help others extend the work.

Qualifications

  • Think in systems: breadth across technical, analytical, investigative and operational disciplines.
  • Deep expertise in at least one relevant harm domain (integrity, trust and safety, security, investigations or related work).
  • Proficient in SQL and Python; experience writing reliable and efficient production code for detection and data processing. ML or SWE experience is a plus.
  • Ability to apply quantitative analysis and machine-learning methods to measure risks and evaluate system effectiveness; understanding of data limitations and trade-offs.
  • Experience setting strategy and delivering complex, cross-functional technical projects.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to surface uncertainty and trade-offs to different audiences.
  • Experience using language models and automation to scale analytical, investigative or operational work with appropriate human oversight.

Skills

Required:Protection strategyHarm detectionCross-functional leadershipInvestigation and domain expertiseMeasurement and evaluation

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
  • 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
  • Paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by law)
  • 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
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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