Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations

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