Biosafety Red Teaming Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead bio red teaming work by shaping evaluation questions, scenarios, and success criteria for biology-relevant misuse pathways
• Review and pressure-test bio red teaming outputs and translate findings into risk calls and recommended next steps
• Identify new red teaming engagements or external expert collaborations to improve visibility into CBRN misuse risks
• Assess how malicious actors could misuse model capabilities across planning, protocol design, procurement, and operationalization
• Manage Bio Bounty program strategy, including challenge-question lifecycle and expert researcher pipeline
• Lead final biological-risk reviews on eligible submissions regarding severity, impact, and mitigation
• Partner with Preparedness, Safety Systems, Policy, and Legal teams to turn findings into concrete follow-up work

Requirements

• At least 8 years of technical CBRN experience
• Deep subject-matter expertise in biosafety, biosecurity, biodefense, synthetic biology, microbiology, or public health security
• Experience with bio red teaming, threat modeling, misuse analysis, or adversarial testing
• Strong operations and/or program management experience
• Ability to prioritize ambiguous findings based on severity, feasibility, and real-world impact
• Excellent judgment when handling sensitive biological information
• Ability to communicate complex technical risk judgments to technical and non-technical stakeholders

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 or CBRN risk

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.