# Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**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 strong executor with excellent judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and an understanding of frontier model research to join our Agent Safety team. The successful candidate will work on training and evaluating frontier models to reduce harmful or misaligned agent actions, forming clear hypotheses and executing independently through ambiguity.

**Responsibilities:**

- Train and evaluate frontier models to reduce harmful or misaligned agent actions, forming clear hypotheses and executing independently through ambiguity.

- Mine incidents and build scalable measurement, data-processing, and evaluation systems that turn real failures into repeatable safety signals.

- Collaborate closely with post-training, capabilities, oversight, and pre-training partners to ship research-backed mitigations into large-scale training and agent systems.

**Requirements:**

- Demonstrated strength in research engineering, ML engineering, quantitative research, or applied model research, with the ability to own ambiguous projects end to end.

- Excellent technical execution across experimentation, data, evaluation, and/or infrastructure, plus strong intuition for modern frontier-model research.

- Motivation by agent safety and eagerness to work on urgent, practical problems even if prior work was outside safety or alignment.

**Benefits:**

- $380K – $500K • Offers Equity

- 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, may also be provided.

## Skills

### Required
- research engineering
- ML engineering
- quantitative research
- applied model research

### Nice to have
- frontier model research
- agent safety
- evaluation systems

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