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OpenAI · 1 day ago

Researcher, Preparedness

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$310K/yr - $460K/yr

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Preparedness team is seeking exceptional research engineers to monitor and predict AI safety risks, design evaluations, and contribute to risk management procedures for frontier AI models.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Work on identifying emerging AI safety risks and new methodologies for exploring the impact of these risks

Build (and then continuously refine) evaluations of frontier AI models that assess the extent of identified risks

Design and build scalable systems and processes that can support these kinds of evaluations

Contribute to the refinement of risk management and the overall development of "best practice" guidelines for AI safety evaluations

Qualification

ML research engineeringAI safety risk assessmentRed-teaming experienceLarge language modelsRisk managementDynamic environment adaptabilityCommunicationCross-functional collaboration

Required

Passionate and knowledgeable about short-term and long-term AI safety risks

Demonstrate the ability to think outside the box and have a robust 'red-teaming mindset'

Experience in ML research engineering, ML observability and monitoring, creating large language model-enabled applications, and/or another technical domain applicable to AI risk

Able to operate effectively in a dynamic and extremely fast-paced research environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end

Preferred

First-hand experience in red-teaming systems—be it computer systems or otherwise

A good understanding of the (nuances of) societal aspects of AI deployment

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally

Company

OpenAI

Glassdoor4.2

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

San Francisco, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.openai.com

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

Sam Altman

CEO & Co-Founder

Greg Brockman

President, Chairman, & Co-Founder

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