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Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations

OpenAI· Safety Systems
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San Francisco, London, UK$380k - $500kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Researcher role focused on derisking frontier AI models by developing novel safety mitigations and applying techniques from interpretability, control, and alignment to ensure safety of deployed models. Involves cross-functional collaboration to build an end-to-end safety stack and define what a safe AI system should look like at OpenAI.

Responsibilities

  • Work on identifying emerging AI safety risks and new methodologies for exploring and mitigating the impact of such risks
  • Build (and then continuously refine) the evaluations that enable us to assess the extent of these risks; this might include working with domain experts (be it internal or external)
  • Set research directions and strategies to make our AI systems safer, more aligned, and more robust
  • Contribute to the development of “best practices” guidelines for AI safety for OpenAI and across the industry
  • Evaluate and design effective red-teaming pipelines to examine the end-to-end robustness of our safety systems, and identify areas for future improvement.

Qualifications

  • Bring 2+ years of experience in the field of AI safety, especially in areas like RLHF, human-AI collaboration, interpretability, or control
  • Hold a Ph.D. or other degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field
  • Thrive in environments involving large-scale AI systems
  • Possess 4+ years of research engineering experience and proficiency in Python or similar languages.

Skills

Required:AI safetyResearch engineering

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 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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