Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 295 - 445
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the team
Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could scale to an extreme level of severity.
Our work involves:
Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems.
Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards alignment tools and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future.
Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAIs preparedness framework and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets.
This is urgent fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society.
About the role
Models are becoming increasingly capablemoving from tools that assist humans to agents that can plan execute and adapt in the real world. As we push toward AGI cybersecurity becomes one of the most important and urgent frontiers: the same systems that can accelerate productivity can also accelerate exploitation.
As a Researcher for cybersecurity risks you will help design and implement an end-to-end mitigation stack to reduce severe cyber misuse across OpenAIs products. This role requires strong technical depth and close cross-functional collaboration to ensure safeguards are enforceable scalable and effective. Youll contribute directly to building protections that remain robust as products model capabilities and attacker behaviors evolve.
In this role you will:
Design and implement mitigation components for model-enabled cybersecurity misusespanning prevention monitoring detection and enforcementunder the guidance of senior technical and risk leadership.
Integrate safeguards across product surfaces in partnership with product and engineering teams helping ensure protections are consistent low-latency and scale with usage and new model capabilities.
Evaluate technical trade-offs within the cybersecurity risk domain (coverage latency model utility and user privacy) and propose pragmatic testable solutions.
Collaborate closely with risk and threat modeling partners to align mitigation design with anticipated attacker behaviors and high-impact misuse scenarios.
Execute rigorous testing and red-teaming workflows helping stress-test the mitigation stack against evolving threats (e.g. novel exploits tool-use chains automated attack workflows) and across different product surfacesthen iterate based on findings.
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.
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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