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Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations

OpenAI · San Francisco · London, UK

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

Highlights

  • Develop novel safety mitigations for frontier AI agents that plan and act.
  • Build evaluations to assess emerging misuse and misalignment risks.
  • Define future safe AI systems and shape industry best practices.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Mission-driven AI safety researcher excited by long-term AGI safety who thrives hands-on with large-scale systems and cross-functional collaboration across security and science domains.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in AI safety, especially RLHF, human-AI collaboration, interpretability, or control
  • PhD or degree in computer science, machine learning, or related field
  • 4+ years of research engineering experience with proficiency in Python or similar languages
  • Experience working with large-scale AI systems
  • Deep enthusiasm for long-term AI safety and technical paths to safe AGI
  • Willing to apply methods from interpretability, robustness, alignment, and control

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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