# Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $295K - $445K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $295K – $445K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits include:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

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

- Relocation support for eligible employees

- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

## About the Team

The Preparedness team is dedicated to addressing critical risks associated with frontier AI systems. This includes monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of these systems, developing and implementing safeguards, and coordinating with other teams to mitigate potential threats.

## About the Role

We are seeking exceptional researchers to join the Frontier Risk Mitigations team. You will help develop novel safety mitigations, apply techniques from domains like interpretability, control, and alignment, and play a critical role in defining the future of safe AI systems at OpenAI.

## Responsibilities

- Identify emerging AI safety risks and develop new methodologies for exploring and mitigating their impact

- Develop and refine evaluations to assess the extent of these risks, collaborating with domain experts as needed

- Set research directions and strategies to make AI systems safer, more aligned, and more robust

- Contribute to the development of 'best practices' guidelines for AI safety

- Design and evaluate effective red-teaming pipelines to examine the end-to-end robustness of safety systems

## Requirements

- 2+ years of experience in AI safety, particularly in areas like RLHF, human-AI collaboration, interpretability, or control

- Ph.D. or other degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field

- 4+ years of research engineering experience and proficiency in Python or similar languages

- Experience working with large-scale AI systems

- Strong technical depth and ability to collaborate cross-functionally

## Nice to Have

- Enthusiasm for long-term AI safety and technical paths to safe AGI

- Experience with OpenAI's mission and charter

- Willingness to apply methods from various domains to make OpenAI's models safe

## Skills

### Required
- AI safety
- machine learning
- Python
- interpretability
- control
- alignment

### Nice to have
- RLHF
- human-AI collaboration

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