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Researcher, Multimodal Safety

OpenAI· Safety Systems
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San Francisco$380k - $500k + bonusFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Researcher role focused on advancing multimodal safety research for text, vision, and audio, translating perception and semantic understanding into safe model behavior within OpenAI’s multimodal products.

Responsibilities

  • Define and advance multimodal safety research for text, vision, and audio, connecting perception and semantic understanding to safe model behavior.
  • Build training and evaluation methods for VLMs, including post-training, safety evals, and interventions that help models respond safely and appropriately in varied contexts.
  • Collaborate closely with Personal AGI, Consumer Devices, and product/model teams to translate research into safer ambient, embedded, and personalized multimodal experiences.

Qualifications

  • Track record of building or advancing multimodal models, with depth in vision-language models, video understanding, image generation, audio, or multimodal reasoning—and fluency across both perception and language.
  • Understanding of end-to-end multimodal systems, including encoders, projection layers, modality fusion, cross-modal reasoning, scaling, and inference tradeoffs.
  • Experience improving frontier model behavior through post-training (e.g., SFT, RL, data curation, synthetic data, evaluation, error analysis).
  • Strong research and engineering judgment for open-ended safety problems: forming testable hypotheses, designing decisive experiments and evaluations, diagnosing model failures, and translating findings into robust improvements.

Skills

Required:Multimodal model developmentVision-language modelingEvaluation & safety testingExperiment design & analysis

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 additional paid company-wide closures; 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
  • Relocation assistance for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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