OpenAI is seeking a Senior Researcher to focus on identifying, quantifying, and understanding future AGI misalignment risks to ensure the responsible development and deployment of safe AGI for the benefit of society.
Requirements
- Have 4+ years of experience in AI red-teaming, security research, adversarial ML, or related safety fields.
- Possess a strong research track record-publications, open-source projects, or high-impact internal work-demonstrating creativity in uncovering and exploiting system weaknesses.
- Are fluent in modern ML / AI techniques and comfortable hacking on large-scale codebases and evaluation infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement worst-case demonstrations that make AGI alignment risks concrete for stakeholders, focused on high stakes use cases described above.
- Develop adversarial and system-level evaluations grounded in those demonstrations, driving adoption across OpenAI.
- Create automated tools and infrastructure to scale automated red-teaming and stress testing.
- Conduct research on failure modes of alignment techniques and propose improvements.
- Publish influential internal or external papers that shift safety strategy or industry practice.
- Partner with engineering, research, policy, and legal teams to integrate findings into product safeguards and governance processes.
- Mentor engineers and researchers, fostering a culture of rigorous, impact-oriented safety work.
Other
- Already are thinking about these problems night and day, and share our mission to build safe, universally beneficial AGI and align with the OpenAI Charter.
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences, translating complex findings into actionable recommendations.
- Enjoy collaboration and can drive cross-functional projects that span research, engineering, and policy.
- Hold a Ph.D., master's degree, or equivalent experience in computer science, machine learning, security, or a related discipline (nice to have but not required).
- A chance to shape safety practices at the frontier of AGI. Your work will directly lower the changes of catastrophic misalignment.
