Job description
OpenAI • San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
$207,000 - $295,000
- In this role, you'll shape policy for addressing biological and chemical risks in frontier AI systems.
- Design and maintain model policies governing chemical and biological risk.
- Develop structured taxonomies of chemical and biological risk for model training and evaluation.
- Translate biosecurity expertise into actionable model behavior with research and engineering teams.
- Identify emerging risk vectors where AI capabilities could enable harmful activity.
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.