About the job
As a tech lead, you will be responsible for developing our strategy in new directions to address potential harms from misalignment or significant mistakes. This will in practice include setting north star goals and milestones for new research directions, and developing challenging evaluations to track progress. Personally driving or leading research in new exploratory directions to demonstrate feasibility and scalability of the approaches. Working horizontally across safety research and related teams to ensure different technical approaches work together to achieve strong safety results.
Responsibilities
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 the rest of the research organization, T&S, policy and related alignment teams, to ensure that our AI meets the highest safety standards.
Actively evaluate and understand the safety of our models and systems, identifying areas of risk and proposing mitigation strategies.
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.
Qualifications
Minimum
Are excited about OpenAI’s mission of building safe, universally beneficial AGI and are aligned with OpenAI’s 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 of building safe, universally beneficial AGI and are aligned with OpenAI’s 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.