Drimva

OpenAI

Researcher, Safety Oversight

$380K–$500K

San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jan 28, 2025

Experience
4+ years of AI safety experience and 4+ years of research engineering experience.
Education
Ph.D. or other degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.

About the job

Conduct research to improve oversight of frontier AI models and identify and mitigate misuse and misalignment in OpenAI systems.

What you'll do

  • Develop AI monitor models and research strategies to improve safety, alignment, and robustness.
  • Design and evaluate red-teaming pipelines and research models’ reasoning about human values.
  • Collaborate with research, T&S, legal, and policy teams on product safety.

What they ask for

  • 4+ years of AI safety experience, especially in areas such as RLHF, human-AI collaboration, or fairness and biases.
  • Ph.D. or other degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
  • 4+ years of research engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in Python or similar languages.

Pay

$380K – $500K USD base salary

Tools

Python, RLHF

AI focus

AI safety research focused on oversight, monitoring, red-teaming, robustness, human values, and mitigating misuse and misalignment.

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