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Researcher, Misalignment Research
Researcher, Misalignment Research
OpenAISan Francisco, USA
Today
AI safety & policy
Full-time
Today
Routes to impact
Direct high impact on an important cause
Skill-building & building career capital
Description
A senior researcher role at OpenAI for an experienced AI safety professional focused on identifying and stress-testing misalignment risks in frontier AGI systems.
  • Focus area - design worst-case demonstrations and adversarial evaluations targeting deceptive behavior, scheming, reward hacking, and power-seeking in AI systems
  • Scope - build automated red-teaming infrastructure and conduct research on alignment failure modes, with findings directly shaping product launches and safety strategy
  • Collaboration - partner across research, engineering, policy, and legal teams; publish internal and external papers to advance industry-wide safety practice
  • Compensation - $295K–$445K + equity, based in San Francisco
Apply directly at openai.com/careers
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