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Researcher, Automated Red Teaming

OpenAI · San Francisco

$295k - $445k/yrMid levelScience and researchSafety SystemsPreparednessPosted 5 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/ that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: 1. Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems. 2. Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future. 3. Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/, and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets. This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society. ABOUT THE ROLE This role leads the Automated Red Teaming (ART) effort: building scalable, research-driven systems that continuously uncover failure modes in our models and safeguards, and translate those findings into actionable, production-facing improvements. The goal is to reduce expected harm by finding the highest-leverage, least-covered weaknesses early and reliably. IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL: - Own the research and technical direction for automated red teaming across catastrophic risk areas, with an initial emphasis on: - Automated classifier jailbreak discovery (cyber and bio). - Automated bio threat-development elicitation (worst-feasible planning uplift). - CoT monitoring evasion probing (and adjacent loss-of-control evaluations). - Partner closely with: - Vertical risk teams (Cyber, Bio, Loss of Control) to define threat models, prioritize targets, and land mitigations. - The Classifiers team to turn discovered attacks into training data, evals, and measurable robustness gains. - Product / Engineering / Safety stakeholders to ensure ART outputs are operationally useful. YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU: - Feel a strong pull toward AI safety,

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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