OpenAI
Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations
$380K–$500K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
About the job
Research and build training, evaluations, and mitigations that help frontier AI agents act safely while preserving useful autonomy.
What you'll do
- Train and evaluate frontier models to reduce harmful or misaligned agent actions.
- Turn real incidents into scalable measurement, data-processing, and evaluation systems.
- Collaborate with research teams to deploy evidence-based mitigations in training and agent systems.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated strength in research engineering, ML engineering, quantitative research, or applied model research.
- Ability to own ambiguous projects end to end.
- Strong technical execution across experimentation, data, evaluation, and/or infrastructure.
- Strong intuition for modern frontier-model research.
Pay
$380K – $500K USD base salary
AI focus
Agent safety research involving model training, evaluations, safety measurements, and oversight or mitigation mechanisms.
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