Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks

San Francisco, United StatesOn-site

Requirements

ABOUT THE TEAM Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/ that could scale to an extreme level of severity.
Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems. 2. Mitigation.
experience in deep learning and transformer models. - Are proficient with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow. - Possess a strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles. - Are familiar with methods for training and fine-tuning large language models, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization. - Excel at working collaboratively with cross-functional teams across research, security, policy, product, and engineering. - Have significant
experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention, detection, and enforcement at scale. - (Nice to have) Bring background knowledge in cybersecurity or adjacent fields.
About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence

Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/, and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets.

Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future. 3. Coordination.
This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society.
ABOUT THE ROLE Models are becoming increasingly capable—moving from tools that assist humans to agents that can plan, execute, and adapt in the real world.
As we push toward AGI, cybersecurity becomes one of the most important and urgent frontiers: the same systems that can accelerate productivity can also accelerate exploitation.
As a Researcher for cybersecurity risks, you will help design and implement an end-to-end mitigation stack to reduce severe cyber misuse across OpenAI’s products.
This role requires strong technical depth and close cross-functional collaboration to ensure safeguards are enforceable, scalable, and effective.
You’ll contribute directly to building protections that remain robust as products, model capabilities, and attacker behaviors evolve. IN THIS ROLE,