OpenAI · 5 months ago
Senior Researcher — Safety Systems, Misalignment Research
New York City
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$380K/yr - $460K/yr
4+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Senior Researcher focused on safety systems and misalignment research, responsible for designing and executing cutting-edge evaluations, building automated tools, conducting research on alignment techniques, and mentoring team members.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and implement worst‑case demonstrations that make AGI alignment risks concrete for stakeholders, focused on high stakes use cases described above
Develop adversarial and system‑level evaluations grounded in those demonstrations, driving adoption across OpenAI
Create automated tools and infrastructure to scale automated red‑teaming and stress testing
Conduct research on failure modes of alignment techniques and propose improvements
Publish influential internal or external papers that shift safety strategy or industry practice. We aim to concretely reduce existential AI risk
Partner with engineering, research, policy, and legal teams to integrate findings into product safeguards and governance processes
Mentor engineers and researchers, fostering a culture of rigorous, impact‑oriented safety work
Qualification
Required
4+ years of experience in AI red‑teaming, security research, adversarial ML, or related safety fields
Strong research track record—publications, open‑source projects, or high‑impact internal work—demonstrating creativity in uncovering and exploiting system weaknesses
Fluent in modern ML / AI techniques and comfortable hacking on large‑scale codebases and evaluation infrastructure
Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical audiences, translating complex findings into actionable recommendations
Enjoy collaboration and can drive cross‑functional projects that span research, engineering, and policy
Ph.D., master's degree, or equivalent experience in computer science, machine learning, security, or a related discipline
Benefits
Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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CEO & Co-Founder
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