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OpenAI · 1 day ago

Researcher, Preparedness

positionSan Francisco
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$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
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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

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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

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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