OpenAI · 1 month ago
Threat Modeler Lead
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$325K/yr - $325K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Threat Modeling Lead will own the holistic approach to identifying, modeling, and forecasting frontier risks from AI systems, ensuring robust evaluation frameworks and safeguards while connecting technical, governance, and policy perspectives.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain comprehensive threat models across all misuse areas (bio, cyber, attack planning, etc.)
Develop plausible and convincing threat models across loss of control, self-improvement, and other possible alignment risks from frontier ai systems
Forecast risks by combining technical foresight, adversarial simulation, and emerging trends
Pair closely with technical partners on capability evaluations to ensure these map to and cover the gambit of severe risks differentially enabled by frontier AI systems
Pair closely with Bio and Cyber Leads to size the remaining risk of the designed safeguards and translate threat models into actionable mitigation designs
Act as the thought partner and explainer of “why” and “when” for high-investment mitigation efforts—helping stakeholders understand the rationale behind prioritization
Serve as the central node connecting technical, governance, and policy perspectives on prioritization, focus and rationale on our approach to misuse risk
Qualification
Required
Understand risks from frontier AI systems and have a strong grasp of AI alignment literature
Bring deep experience in threat modeling, risk analysis, or adversarial thinking (e.g., security, national security, or safety)
Know how AI evaluations work and can connect eval results to both capability testing and safeguard sufficiency
Enjoy working across technical and policy domains to drive rigorous, multidisciplinary risk assessments
Communicate complex risks clearly and compellingly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Think in systems and naturally anticipate second-order and cascading risks
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
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