OpenAI · 1 month ago
Head of Preparedness
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$555K/yr - $555K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Head of Preparedness will lead the technical strategy and execution of OpenAI’s Preparedness framework, focusing on building capability evaluations, threat models, and mitigations to ensure safe deployment of AI systems.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Own OpenAI’s preparedness strategy end-to-end by building capability evaluations, establishing threat models, and building and coordinating mitigations
Lead the development of frontier capability evaluations, ensuring they are precise, robust, and scalable across rapid product cycles
Oversee mitigation design across major risk areas (e.g., cyber, bio), ensuring safeguards are technically sound, effective, and aligned with underlying threat models
Guide interpretation of evaluation results and ensure they directly inform launch decisions, policy choices, and safety cases
Refine and evolve the preparedness framework as new risks, capabilities, or external expectations emerge
Collaborate cross-functionally with research, engineering, product teams, policy monitoring and enforcement teams, governance, and external partners to integrate preparedness into real-world deployment
Qualification
Required
Deep technical judgment
Clear communication skills
Ability to guide complex work across multiple risk domains
Experience designing or executing high-rigor evaluations for complex technical systems
Comfortable making clear, high-stakes technical judgments under uncertainty
Ability to communicate crisply and align diverse stakeholders around safety decisions
Experience managing or leading technical teams, or driving cross-functional initiatives in research-intensive environments
Ability to balance scientific depth with operational realities
Experience in machine learning, AI safety, evaluations, security, or adjacent risk domains
Preferred
Experience in areas such as threat modeling, cybersecurity, biosecurity, misalignment/deception, or other frontier-risk domains
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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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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