Job description
OpenAI • San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Bay Area
$310,000 - $460,000
- In this role, you'll build safer AI models and enable earlier safety evaluation during training.
- Develop techniques to identify and evaluate unsafe behavior in early-stage models.
- Design data strategies to improve pretraining and reduce downstream risk.
- Explore architectures and configurations that enhance model controllability.
- Introduce safety-oriented loss functions and metrics into the pretraining stack.
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.