Data Scientist, Preparedness
OpenAI · Added 3 days ago
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AI Safety & Alignment
San Francisco Bay Area
$347,000 - $400,000
In this role, you'll build and improve mitigation systems that prevent extreme harms from AI systems.
Evaluate classifiers and detection pipelines across domains like biosecurity and cybersecurity.
Diagnose false positives and false negatives through error analysis and root cause investigation.
Build monitoring frameworks to track mitigation effectiveness and identify over-blocking and under-blocking trends.
Communicate analysis results to stakeholders with decision-ready metrics and clear trade-offs.
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.
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