Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks
San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 1mo ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Research Engineer
About the job
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. 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.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement mitigation components for model-enabled cybersecurity misuse, spanning prevention, monitoring, detection, and enforcement.
- Integrate safeguards across product surfaces in partnership with product and engineering teams.
- Evaluate technical trade-offs within the cybersecurity risk domain and propose pragmatic, testable solutions.
- Collaborate closely with risk and threat modeling partners to align mitigation design with anticipated attacker behaviors and high-impact misuse scenarios.
- Execute rigorous testing and red-teaming workflows to stress-test the mitigation stack against evolving threats and across different product surfaces, then iterate based on findings.
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 methods for training and fine-tuning large language models, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization.
- Experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention, detection, and enforcement at scale.
- Background knowledge in cybersecurity or adjacent fields is a plus.