Job description
OpenAI • San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
$207,000 - $295,000
- In this role, you'll define model behavior in high-risk cybersecurity contexts through policy frameworks, threat models, and evaluation criteria.
- Translate cybersecurity threat models into behavioral specifications and system-level mitigations.
- Build policy artifacts supporting implementation across training, deployment, and monitoring systems.
- Analyze red-teaming results and deployment data to improve policy quality.
- Identify emerging cyber capability risks where AI systems 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.