OpenAI · 1 day ago
Researcher, Alignment
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$295K/yr - $440K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves designing and implementing scalable solutions to ensure AI alignment with human intent, focusing on developing methodologies that enable safe and trustworthy AI systems.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Develop and evaluate alignment capabilities that are subjective, context-dependent, and hard to measure
Design evaluations to reliably measure risks and alignment with human intent and values
Build tools and evaluations to study and test model robustness in different situations
Design experiments to understand laws for how alignment scales as a function of compute, data, lengths of context and action, as well as resources of adversaries
Design and evaluate new Human-AI-interaction paradigms and scalable oversight methods that redefine how humans interact with, understand, and supervise our models
Train model to be calibrated on correctness and risk
Designing novel approaches for using AI in alignment research
Qualification
Required
Have a PhD or equivalent experience in research in computer science, computational science, data science, cognitive science, or similar fields
Have strong engineering skills, particularly in designing and optimizing large-scale machine learning systems(e.g., PyTorch)
Have a deep understanding of the science behind alignment algorithms and techniques
Can develop data visualization or data collection interfaces (e.g., TypeScript, Python)
Are a team player – willing to do a variety of tasks that move the team forward
Enjoy fast-paced, collaborative, and cutting-edge research environments
Want to focus on developing AI models that are trustworthy, safe, and reliable, especially in high-stakes scenarios
Benefits
Relocation assistance
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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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
2026-01-14
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