Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 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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About the Role
You will train and evaluate frontier models to reduce harmful or misaligned agent actions, forming hypotheses and executing independently. You will mine incidents and build measurement, data-processing and evaluation systems, and collaborate with post-training, capabilities, oversight and pre-training partners to ship mitigations.
Requirements
- Demonstrated strength in research engineering, ML engineering, quantitative research, or applied model research
- Excellent technical execution across experimentation, data, evaluation, and/or infrastructure
- Intuition for modern frontier-model research
- Motivation for agent safety; prior safety or alignment experience not required
Responsibilities
- Train and evaluate frontier models to reduce harmful or misaligned agent actions
- Mine incidents and build scalable measurement, data-processing, and evaluation systems
- Collaborate with post-training, capabilities, oversight, and pre-training partners to ship research-backed mitigations
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
