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
• Evaluate technical trade-offs regarding coverage, latency, model utility, and user privacy
• 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 evolving threats

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
• Familiarity with training and fine-tuning large language models (distillation, SFT, policy optimization)
• Experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention and detection at scale
• Ability to work collaboratively across research, security, policy, product, and engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Background knowledge in cybersecurity or adjacent fields

About the Company

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