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Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks

OpenAI · San Francisco

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

Highlights

  • Build end-to-end mitigation stack for severe model-enabled cyber misuse.
  • Stress-test safeguards against novel exploits and automated attack workflows.
  • Help keep frontier AI safeguards ahead of evolving attacker behaviors.

Ideal candidate

Safety-motivated researcher who loves building robust protections for frontier AI and thrives collaborating across research, product, and security to reduce severe cyber misuse.

Requirements

  • Passion for AI safety and safer real-world use of cutting-edge AI models
  • Demonstrated experience in deep learning and transformer models
  • Proficiency with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles
  • Familiarity with training and fine-tuning LLMs including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization
  • Significant experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention, detection, and enforcement at scale
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across research, security, policy, product, and engineering
  • Background knowledge in cybersecurity or adjacent fields (nice to have)

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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