Research Engineer / Scientist, Safety Oversight

The Safety Systems team is responsible for various safety work to ensure our best models can be safely deployed to the real world to benefit the society, and is at the forefront of OpenAI's mission to build and deploy safe AGI, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering a culture of trust and transparency.

The Safety Oversight Research team aims to fundamentally advance our capabilities to maintain oversight over frontier AI models, and to leverage these advances to ensure OpenAI's deployed models are safe and beneficial. This requires a breadth of new ML research in the areas of human-AI collaboration, reasoning, robustness, and scalable oversight to keep pace with model capabilities. We invest heavily in developing novel model and system-level methods of identifying and mitigating AI misuse and misalignment.

Our goal is to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely.

OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher with a passion for AI safety and experience in safety research. Your role will set directions for research to maintain effective oversight of safe AGI and work on research projects to identify and mitigate misuse and misalignment in our AI systems. You will play a critical role in defining how a safe AI system should look in the future at OpenAI, making a significant impact on our mission to build and deploy safe AGI.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and refine AI monitor models to detect and mitigate known and emerging patterns of misuse and misalignment.

• Set the research directions and strategies to make our AI systems safer, more aligned, and more robust.

• Experiment and design effective red-teaming pipelines to examine the end-to-end robustness of our safety systems, and identify areas for future improvement.

• Conduct applied research to improve models' ability to reason about questions of human values, and apply these improved models to practical safety challenges.

• Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including T&S, legal, policy and other research teams, to ensure that our products meet the highest safety standards.

• Are excited about OpenAI's mission of building safe, universally beneficial AGI and are aligned with OpenAI's charter

• Demonstrate a passion for AI safety and making cutting-edge AI models safer for real-world use.

• Possess 4+ years of research engineering experience and proficiency in Python or similar languages.

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

• Thrive in environments involving large-scale AI systems and multimodal datasets (a plus).

• Bring 4+ years of experience in the field of AI safety, especially in areas like RLHF, human-AI collaboration, fairness & biases.

• Show enthusiasm for AI safety and dedication to enhancing the safety of cutting-edge AI models for real-world use.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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Compensation Range: $245K - $440K