OpenAI · 9 hours ago
Research Lead, Cyber
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$460K/yr - $460K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves leading research on cybersecurity risks, designing, implementing, and overseeing mitigation strategies to prevent cyber misuse of OpenAI's products.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Lead the full-stack mitigation strategy and implement solutions for model-enabled cybersecurity misuse—from prevention to monitoring, detection, and enforcement
Integrate safeguards across products so protections are consistent, low-latency, and scale with usage and new model surfaces
Make decisive technical trade-offs within the cybersecurity risk domain, balancing coverage, latency, model utility, and user privacy
Partner with risk/threat modeling leadership to align mitigation design with anticipated attacker behaviors and high-impact scenarios
Drive rigorous testing and red-teaming, stress-testing the mitigation stack against evolving threats (e.g., novel exploits, tool-use chains, automated attack workflows) and across product surfaces
Qualification
Required
Have a passion for AI safety and are motivated to make cutting-edge AI models safer for real-world use
Bring demonstrated experience in deep learning and transformer models
Are proficient with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
Possess a strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles
Are familiar with methods for training and fine-tuning large language models, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization
Excel at working collaboratively with cross-functional teams across research, security, policy, product, and engineering
Show decisive leadership in high-stakes, ambiguous environments
Have significant experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention, detection, and enforcement at scale
Preferred
Bring background knowledge in cybersecurity or adjacent fields
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.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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2025 (1)
2024 (1)
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2022 (18)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
Recent News
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