# Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $380K - $500K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are seeking a safety and security-minded researcher or engineer to join our Agent Safety team. The successful candidate will work on oversight and system-level mitigations that enable increasingly capable agents to operate safely and autonomously in real environments.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, build, and evaluate system-level controls for agent actions

- Work closely with a Codex harness engineering team to productionize AI controls

- Red-team end-to-end agentic systems to measure whether controls prevent data exfiltration, unsafe tool use, and other harmful outcomes

- Improve the safety–productivity tradeoff by measuring and reducing missed harmful actions, unnecessary blocks, approval burden, and latency

**Requirements:**

- Strong systems or security instincts and ability to reason concretely about isolation boundaries, permissions, attack surfaces, and failure modes in complex systems

- Experience turning ambiguous safety questions into concrete threat models, reproducible experiments, and practical mitigations

- Ability to build robust experimental infrastructure and design evaluations that distinguish promising mitigations from brittle ones

- Deep interest in frontier AI alignment, safety, and control

**Benefits:**

- $380K – $500K salary

- Generous equity

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave, and paid time off

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

## Skills

### Required
- AI control
- security
- systems

### Nice to have
- AI alignment
- safety
- control

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