Researcher, Misalignment Monitoring Lead
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labonsitesenior$380k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead technical direction for evaluating misalignment monitoring in frontier models.
- Design rigorous evaluations to uncover monitor failures and missed detections.
- Build scalable frameworks to stress-test safety monitors as capabilities evolve.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Senior ML researcher with strong experimental judgment who thrives on ambiguous, open-ended safety problems and turning rigorous evaluations into practical improvements.
Requirements
- Strong background in machine learning research, particularly model evaluations, AI safety, alignment, or robustness
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically challenging research projects from question to results
- Strong experimental judgment designing rigorous, reproducible, and hard-to-game evaluations
- Hands-on experience building or evaluating ML systems, including large language models
- Comfort investigating complex failure modes and working on open-ended research problems
- Clear technical communication and collaboration across research and engineering teams
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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