Job description
OpenAI • San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Bay Area
$295,000 - $445,000
- In this role, you'll own the scientific validity of frontier AI safety evaluations across biological, chemical, cyber and other catastrophic risk domains.
- Identify emerging AI safety risks and develop new methodologies for assessing their potential impact.
- Build and continuously refine evaluations that measure the extent of identified risks in frontier models.
- Design scalable systems and processes to support comprehensive safety evaluations.
- Develop best practice guidelines for AI safety evaluations and contribute to risk management frameworks.
OpenAI is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. You can read concerns about doing harm by working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic, including concerns about OpenAI in particular.
Our Take On This Role: We have concerns about OpenAI's track record on safety and responsible development and do not recommend almost any roles at OpenAI. Nonetheless, it is possible that OpenAI will create AGI in the next decade, in which case safety and security work at the company could be extremely important. If you receive a job offer from OpenAI, consider contacting us for career advice.