Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks

Responsibilities

• Design and implement mitigation components for model-enabled cybersecurity misuse, including prevention, monitoring, detection, and enforcement.
• Integrate safeguards across product surfaces in partnership with product and engineering teams to ensure low-latency and scalable protections.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs regarding coverage, latency, model utility, and user privacy to propose pragmatic solutions.
• Collaborate with risk and threat modeling partners to align mitigation design with anticipated attacker behaviors.
• Execute rigorous testing and red-teaming workflows to stress-test the mitigation stack against novel exploits and automated attack workflows.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in deep learning and transformer models.
• Proficiency with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
• Experience with LLM training and fine-tuning methods, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization.
• Significant experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention and detection at scale.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background knowledge in cybersecurity or adjacent technical fields.

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 medical/caregiver leave.
• Flexible PTO and 13+ paid company holidays.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Daily meals in the office and meal delivery credits.
• Annual learning and development stipend.

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.