Applied Risk Standards Specialist

OpenAI is looking for an Applied Risk Standards Specialist to lead standards work for applied risk in applications, including mental health, youth safety, age assurance, functional efficacy, reliability, and privacy-related risks.

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 position is $171K - $280K per year, with additional compensation including generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of applied AI risk standards, working with technical and policy teams to define and advance standards for mental health, youth safety, age assurance, efficacy, reliability, and privacy-related risks.
• Work with technical owners to turn research, internal policies, and evaluation methods into credible test methods, assessment criteria, and standards grounded in real system behavior.
• Bring emerging requirements into internal planning and work with responsible teams to clarify their implications for evaluations, controls, and assurance for our products.
• Work with technical and GRC partners on assessor competence, independence, conflicts of interest, evidence access, reporting, and the distinction between management-system audits and technical evaluations.
• Contribute drafting, representation, and coordination on frontier risk-management and independent-assessment standards.
• Lead assigned standards-body workstreams, negotiate proposals, and coordinate internal input, reducing the external engagement burden on technical experts.

Requirements:

• Technical depth in evaluation science, AI evaluations and red teaming, AI safety, or trust and safety, combined with demonstrated ability to translate that expertise into credible standards or assessment methods.
• Authored or materially shaped standards, evaluation criteria, control frameworks, or normative technical contributions.
• Ability to translate a broad safety objective into a clear requirement and explain what evidence would demonstrate that it has been met.
• Understanding of the differences among organizational risk-management processes, model and system evaluations, mitigation testing, and broader assurance claims.
• Ability to evaluate sensitive, context-dependent outcomes, including uncertainty and variation across users and use cases.
• Understanding of how assessor competence, independence, incentives, and access affect the credibility of an assessment.
• Ability to build consensus without sacrificing technical rigor, and know when to compromise, challenge a proposal, or escalate a decision.

Benefits:

• 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.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave, paid 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.