Researcher, Pretraining Safety

Responsibilities

• Develop new techniques to predict, measure, and evaluate unsafe behavior in early-stage models
• Design data curation strategies that improve pretraining priors and reduce downstream risk
• Explore safe-by-design architectures and training configurations that improve controllability
• Introduce novel safety-oriented loss functions, metrics, and evals into the pretraining stack
• Work closely with cross-functional safety teams to unify pre- and post-training risk reduction

Requirements

• Experience developing or scaling pretraining architectures (LLMs, diffusion models, or multimodal models)
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with PyTorch or JAX
• Experience with Apache Beam
• Strong statistical reasoning and rigor in experimental design skills

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave
• Flexible PTO and 13+ paid company holidays
• Mental health and wellness support
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in our 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 the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.