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Researcher, Multimodal Safety

OpenAI · San Francisco

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

Highlights

  • Shape how frontier models perceive the world and turn it into safe behavior.
  • Advance multimodal safety research across text, vision, and audio.
  • Help make ChatGPT safe across diverse global text, speech and visuals.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance
  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A researcher who bridges perception and language, pairing deep technical skill with strong safety judgment and a drive to responsibly deploy frontier AI at global scale.

Requirements

  • Have a track record of building or advancing multimodal models, with depth in vision-language models, video understanding, image generation, audio, or multimodal reasoning
  • Understand how multimodal systems work end to end, from encoders, projection layers, and modality fusion to cross-modal reasoning, scaling, and inference tradeoffs
  • Have improved frontier model behavior through post-training, using approaches such as SFT, RL, data curation, synthetic data, evaluation, and rigorous error analysis
  • Bring strong research and engineering judgment to open-ended safety problems, from testable hypotheses and evaluations to diagnosing failures into robust improvements
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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