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Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations

OpenAI· Safety Systems
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Researcher focused on training, evaluating, and evaluating safety measures for frontier AI agents. Hybrid in San Francisco; full-time role within OpenAI’s Safety Systems team, working to reduce harmful or misaligned agent actions through training, measurement, and oversight.

Responsibilities

  • Train and evaluate frontier models to reduce harmful or misaligned agent actions, forming clear hypotheses and executing independently through ambiguity.
  • Mine incidents and build scalable measurement, data-processing, and evaluation systems that turn real failures into repeatable safety signals.
  • Collaborate closely with post-training, capabilities, oversight, and pre-training partners to ship research-backed mitigations into large-scale training and agent systems.

Qualifications

  • Have demonstrated strength in research engineering, ML engineering, quantitative research, or applied model research, with the ability to own ambiguous projects end to end.
  • Bring excellent technical execution across experimentation, data, evaluation, and/or infrastructure, plus strong intuition for modern frontier-model research.
  • Are motivated by agent safety and eager to work on urgent, practical problems even if your prior work was outside safety or alignment.

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
  • 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
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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