OpenAI
Applied Risk Standards Architect
$171K–$280K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Washington, DC
About the job
Leads external standards work for applied AI risks, translating research, policies, and evaluation methods into measurable standards and assessment requirements.
What you'll do
- Develop applied AI risk standards and assessment criteria, including for mental health, youth safety, age assurance, efficacy, reliability, and privacy-related risks.
- Lead standards-body workstreams, draft and negotiate proposals, coordinate internal review, and represent OpenAI in standards forums.
- Contribute to frontier AI risk-management and independent-assessment standards, including assessor competence, independence, evidence access, and reporting.
What they ask for
- Technical depth in evaluation science, AI evaluations and red teaming, AI safety, or trust and safety, and ability to translate expertise into standards or assessment methods.
- Authored or materially shaped standards, evaluation criteria, control frameworks, or normative technical contributions.
- Ability to define clear requirements and evidence, assess sensitive outcomes and uncertainty, and distinguish risk-management processes from evaluations and assurance claims.
- Ability to build consensus and communicate precisely with technical teams, lawyers, executives, policymakers, and standards participants.
Pay
$171K – $280K USD base salary
Tools
ISO/IEC, INCITS, NIST
AI focus
Develops standards and assessment approaches for applied AI risks and contributes to frontier AI assurance and risk-management standards.
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