Researcher, Misalignment Monitoring Lead
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead technical work on misalignment monitoring for frontier AI systems, combining research leadership with hands-on execution. You will set priorities, design rigorous evaluations, investigate monitor failures, stress-test monitors, build scalable evaluation frameworks, and turn findings into practical improvements with partner teams.
Requirements
- Strong background in machine learning research, such as model evaluations, AI safety, alignment, or robustness
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically challenging research projects
- Strong experimental judgment in designing rigorous evaluations
- Hands-on experience building or evaluating ML systems including large language models
- Practical engineering ability
- Clear communication of technical findings
- Nice to have: experience with AI monitoring, automated evaluations, adversarial testing, or red-teaming
- Nice to have: research experience in scalable oversight, AI control, or interpretability
- Nice to have: technical research leadership and mentoring
Responsibilities
- Lead research and technical direction for evaluating and improving misalignment monitoring
- Design and execute evaluations measuring monitor effectiveness and failure modes
- Develop methods to stress-test and red-team monitors
- Investigate false positives and missed detections
- Build scalable evaluation frameworks and experimental tools
- Translate research findings into improvements with partner teams
- Establish research priorities and guide technical execution
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