Researcher, Multimodal Safety
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsite$380k–$500k
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