Researcher, Safety - Frontier Assurance
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labonsite$380k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build technical foundations for rigorous assessments of frontier AI risks.
- Design assessments with external evaluators to test consequential safety claims.
- Build tooling to automate auditing, evidence collection, and evaluation workflows.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A research engineer who thrives on rigorous experimentation and collaboration, excited to enable independent scrutiny of frontier AI systems and turn ambiguous safety questions into trustworthy evidence.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills and experience building research tools, evaluation infrastructure, or systems for analyzing complex data
- Practical experience working with modern machine learning systems, including designing experiments, running evaluations, and interpreting results
- Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and infrastructure, debug across system boundaries, and turn ambiguous requests into reliable implementations
- Sound judgment in experimental design and measurement, including identifying confounders, limitations, and gaps in evidence
- Enjoy working closely with researchers, explaining technical systems, and helping others investigate difficult questions
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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