Applied Risk Standards Architect
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will translate research, policies, and evaluation methods into measurable standards, test methods, and assessment criteria. You will lead standards workstreams, negotiate proposals, coordinate reviews and approvals, represent priorities externally, and connect emerging requirements to internal planning.
Requirements
- Technical depth in evaluation science, AI evaluations and red teaming, AI safety, or trust and safety
- Experience authoring or materially shaping standards, evaluation criteria, control frameworks, or normative technical contributions
- Ability to translate safety objectives into clear requirements and evidence standards
- Understanding of risk-management processes, model and system evaluations, mitigation testing, and assurance claims
- Understanding of assessor competence, independence, incentives, and access
- Ability to build consensus while maintaining technical rigor
- Precise writing and ability to independently lead a workstream through negotiation and handoff
Responsibilities
- Lead development of applied AI risk standards
- Turn research, policies, and evaluation methods into test methods, assessment criteria, and standards
- Bring emerging requirements into internal planning
- Work on assessor competence, independence, conflicts of interest, evidence access, and reporting
- Contribute to frontier risk-management and independent-assessment standards
- Lead standards-body workstreams and negotiate proposals
- Maintain approvals, negotiating positions, contribution records, and implementation handoffs
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO or up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, paid office closures, and paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends