Biosafety Red Teaming Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead bio red teaming efforts by shaping evaluation questions, scenarios, and success criteria for biological misuse pathways.
• Review and pressure-test red teaming outputs to translate findings into concise risk calls and actionable next steps.
• Identify new red teaming engagements and external expert collaborations to improve visibility into CBRN misuse risks.
• Manage the Bio Bounty program strategy, including the challenge-question lifecycle, researcher pipeline, and submission review standards.
• Lead final biological-risk reviews on eligible submissions, assessing severity, impact, novelty, and mitigation.
• Partner cross-functionally with Preparedness, Safety Systems, Policy, and Legal teams to turn findings into concrete safety work.

Requirements

• 8+ years of technical CBRN experience.
• Deep subject-matter expertise in biosafety, biosecurity, biodefense, synthetic biology, microbiology, or public health security.
• Experience in red teaming, threat modeling, misuse analysis, or adversarial testing.
• Strong program management or operational experience.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and risk judgments to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Technical fluency to partner with data, engineering, and safety teams on scalable review processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience managing a bounty, vulnerability disclosure, or external researcher program.
• Experience with AI safety evaluations or frontier model risk assessment.
• Familiarity with how advanced AI systems may affect biological safety and CBRN risk.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to HSAs.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents) and caregiver leave.
• Flexible PTO and 13+ paid company holidays.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits.

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.