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Researcher, Safety & Privacy

OpenAI · San Francisco

$295k - $445k/yrMid levelScience and researchSafety SystemsSafety SystemsPosted 3 months ago
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About the Team: Our Safety Systems https://openai.com/safety/safety-systems org ensures that OpenAI’s most capable models can be responsibly developed and deployed. We build evaluations, safeguards, and safety frameworks that help our models behave as intended in real-world settings. About the Role: We are seeking a Researcher in Privacy-Preserving Safety to help design and build the next generation of privacy-preserving safety systems for frontier AI models. This role sits at the intersection of AI safety, security, and privacy, with a focus on developing auditable, privacy-first mechanisms that enable robust harm detection and mitigation without exposing sensitive user data. You will help define and operationalize frameworks for identifying and addressing frontier risks (e.g., bioweapon instructions, malware creation, suicide/self-harm risks, jailbreaks), while ensuring that privacy guarantees remain intact - even under adversarial conditions. This role is central to our long-term goal of scaling our automated privacy-preserving safety systems to mitigate potential harms while minimizing human review. You’ll work on foundational problems such as privacy-preserving monitoring, algorithmic auditing, secure enclaves, and adversarially robust safety enforcement protocols, helping ensure that safety systems scale without compromising user trust. In this role, you will: - Design and implement privacy-first architectures for detecting and mitigating harmful model behaviors. - Build frameworks for auditable private identification of high-risk content (jailbreaks, cyber threats, or weaponization instructions). - Develop strict, auditable mechanisms triggered only by harm signals. - Drive the development of automated safety systems that preserve privacy at every level. You might thrive in this role if you: - Are a researcher with deep interest in privacy, security, and AI safety, motivated by building systems that are both trustworthy and effective at scale. - Hold a PhD or

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Operational AuditingPrivacyArtificial Intelligence

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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