OpenAI

Researcher, Frontier Biological and Chemical Risks

OpenAI$130K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in research engineering or a related field
  • Strong knowledge of AI safety risks and methodologies
  • Experience in ML research engineering and observability
  • Familiarity with large language model applications
  • Ability to navigate dynamic and fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

  • Identify emerging AI safety risks and explore their impacts
  • Build and refine evaluations for frontier AI models
  • Design scalable systems for evaluation processes
  • Contribute to the development of AI safety best practices
  • Produce auditable artifacts for high-stakes launches

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on impactful AI safety technologies
  • Involvement in cutting-edge research with a focus on real-world applications
  • Collaborative and cross-functional team environment
  • Access to a fast-paced, innovative research culture
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are looking to hire exceptional research engineers that can push the boundaries of our frontier models. Specifically, we are looking for those that will help us shape our empirical grasp of the whole spectrum of AI safety concerns and will own individual threads within this endeavor end-to-end.

You will own the scientific validity of our frontier preparedness capability evaluations-designing new evals grounded in real threat models (including high-consequence domains like CBRN as well as cyber and other frontier-risk areas), and maintaining existing evals so they don't stale or silently regress. You'll define datasets, graders, rubrics, and threshold guidance, and produce auditable artifacts (evaluation cards, capability reports, system-card inputs) that leadership can trust during high-stakes launches.

In this role, you'll:
  • Work on identifying emerging AI safety risks and new methodologies for exploring the impact of these risks
  • Build (and then continuously refine) evaluations of frontier AI models that assess the extent of identified risks
  • Design and build scalable systems and processes that can support these kinds of evaluations
  • Contribute to the refinement of risk management and the overall development of "best practice" guidelines for AI safety evaluations
You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Are passionate and knowledgeable about short-term and long-term AI safety risks
  • Demonstrate the ability to think outside the box and have a robust "red-teaming mindset"
  • Have experience in ML research engineering, ML observability and monitoring, creating large language model-enabled applications, and/or another technical domain applicable to AI risk
  • Are able to operate effectively in a dynamic and extremely fast-paced research environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end


It would be great if you also have:
  • First-hand experience in red-teaming systems-be it computer systems or otherwise
  • A good understanding of the (nuances of) societal aspects of AI deployment
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally


This role may require access to technology or technical data controlled under the U.S. Export Administration Regulations or International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Therefore, this role is restricted to individuals described in paragraph (a)(1) of the definition of "U.S. person" in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, 15 C.F.R. 772.1, and in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, 22 C.F.R. 120.62. U.S. persons are U.S. citizens, U.S. legal permanent residents, individuals granted asylum status in the United States, and individuals admitted to the United States as refugees.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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