About the job
OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher with passion for AI safety and experience in safety research. Your role will set directions for research to enable and empower safe AGI and work on research projects to make our AI systems safer, more aligned and more robust to adversarial or malicious use cases. You will play a critical role in shaping how a safe AI system should look like in the future at OpenAI, making a significant impact on our mission to build and deploy safe AGI.
Responsibilities
- Conduct state-of-the-art research on AI safety topics such as RLHF, adversarial training, robustness, and more.
- Implement new methods in OpenAI’s core model training and launch safety improvements in OpenAI’s products.
- Set the research directions and strategies to make our AI systems safer, more aligned and more robust.
- Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including T&S, legal, policy and other research teams, to ensure that our products meet the highest safety standards.
- Actively evaluate and understand the safety of our models and systems, identifying areas of risk and proposing mitigation strategies.
Qualifications
Minimum
- Are excited about OpenAI’s mission https://openai.com/mission/ of building safe, universally beneficial AGI and are aligned with OpenAI’s charter https://openai.com/charter/
- Demonstrate a passion for AI safety and making cutting-edge AI models safer for real-world use.
- Bring 4+ years of experience in the field of AI safety, especially in areas like RLHF, adversarial training, robustness, fairness & biases.
- Hold a Ph.D. or other degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
- Possess experience in safety work for AI model deployment
- Have an in-depth understanding of deep learning research and/or strong engineering skills.
- Are a team player who enjoys collaborative work environments.
Preferred
- Are excited about OpenAI’s mission https://openai.com/mission/ of building safe, universally beneficial AGI and are aligned with OpenAI’s charter https://openai.com/charter/
- Demonstrate a passion for AI safety and making cutting-edge AI models safer for real-world use.
- Are a team player who enjoys collaborative work environments.