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Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 38M AGO

Frontier labonsite$380k–$500k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build oversight systems like agent-based review for real-world Codex deployments.
  • Red-team agentic systems to test controls against exfiltration and unsafe tool use.
  • Improve safety-productivity tradeoff by cutting missed harms and approval burden.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Safety-minded researcher or engineer with strong systems instincts who enjoys turning ambiguous safety questions into tested mitigations and cares deeply about frontier AI alignment.

Requirements

  • Strong systems or security instincts for reasoning about isolation, permissions and failure modes
  • Turn ambiguous safety questions into threat models, experiments and practical mitigations
  • Build robust experimental infrastructure and evaluations for safety mitigations
  • Deep interest in frontier AI alignment, safety and control
remote policy
3 days in office per week

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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