Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks

Skills

About the Role

You will help design and implement an end-to-end mitigation stack that reduces severe cyber misuse across OpenAI's products. You will build prevention, monitoring, detection and enforcement components, partner with product and engineering teams to integrate safeguards, weigh technical trade-offs, and run rigorous testing and red-teaming to iterate on findings.

Requirements

• Passion for AI safety
• Demonstrated experience in deep learning and transformer models
• Proficiency with PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering
• Familiarity with training and fine-tuning large language models, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Significant experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention, detection, and enforcement at scale
• Nice to have: background in cybersecurity

Responsibilities

• Design and implement mitigation components for model-enabled cybersecurity misuse spanning prevention, monitoring, detection, and enforcement
• Integrate safeguards across product surfaces with product and engineering teams
• Evaluate technical trade-offs such as coverage, latency, model utility, and user privacy
• Collaborate with risk and threat modeling partners to align mitigations with anticipated attacker behaviors
• Execute testing and red-teaming workflows to stress-test the mitigation stack and iterate on findings

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
• Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
• Flexible PTO
• 13+ paid company holidays and company 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
• Performance-related bonus