Lead Research Engineer Scientist, Cyber
Lead Research Engineer Scientist, Cyber
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USD 460000 - 460000
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About the team
We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely.
About the role
As the lead researcher for cybersecurity risks you will design implement and oversee an end-to-end mitigation stack to prevent severe cyber misuse across OpenAIs products. This role demands technical depth decisive leadership and cross-company influence to ensure safeguards are enforceable scalable and effective. Youll set the technical strategy drive execution and ensure our products cannot be misused for severe harm.
In this role you will:
Lead the full-stack mitigation strategy and implement solutions for model-enabled cybersecurity misusefrom prevention to monitoring detection and enforcement.
Integrate safeguards across products so protections are consistent low-latency and scale with usage and new model surfaces.
Make decisive technical trade-offs within the cybersecurity risk domain balancing coverage latency model utility and user privacy.
Partner with risk/threat modeling leadership to align mitigation design with anticipated attacker behaviors and high-impact scenarios.
Drive rigorous testing and red-teaming stress-testing the mitigation stack against evolving threats (e.g. novel exploits tool-use chains automated attack workflows) and across product surfaces.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have a passion for AI safety and are motivated to make cutting-edge AI models safer for real-world use.
Bring demonstrated experience in deep learning and transformer models.
Are proficient with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Possess a strong foundation in data structures algorithms and software engineering principles.
Are familiar with methods for training and fine-tuning large language models including distillation supervised fine-tuning and policy optimization.
Excel at working collaboratively with cross-functional teams across research security policy product and engineering.
Show decisive leadership in high-stakes ambiguous environments.
Have significant experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention detection and enforcement at scale.
(Nice to have) Bring background knowledge in cybersecurity or adjacent fields.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
