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OpenAI · 6 days ago

Researcher, Trustworthy AI

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid Level
money$380K/yr - $380K/yr
date3+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves conducting research to study the societal impacts of AI models and developing methods to incorporate public input into model values, while enhancing external assurances and de-risking model deployments.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Set research and strategies to study societal impacts of our models in an action-relevant manner and figure out how to tie this back into model design
Build creative methods and run experiments that enable public input into model values
Increasing rigor of external assurances by turning external findings into robust evaluations
Facilitating and growing our ability to effectively de-risk flagship model deployments in a timely manner

Qualification

AI safetyPythonInterdisciplinary researchLarge-scale AI systemsMultimodal datasetsRLHFAdversarial trainingRobustnessLLM evaluationsSocio-technical topicsPassion for AI safetyProblem-solving

Required

Possess 3+ years of research experience (industry or similar academic experience) and proficiency in Python or similar languages
Thrive in environments involving large-scale AI systems and multimodal datasets
Enjoy working on large-scale, difficult, and nebulous problems in a well-resourced environment
Exhibit proficiency in the field of AI safety, focusing on topics like RLHF, adversarial training, robustness, LLM evaluations
Have past experience in interdisciplinary research
Show enthusiasm for socio-technical topics

Preferred

Are excited about OpenAI's mission of building safe, universally beneficial AGI and are aligned with OpenAI's charter
Demonstrate a passion for AI safety and making cutting-edge AI models safer for real-world use

Benefits

Relocation assistance to new employees

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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