About the job
OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher with a passion for AI safety and experience in safety research. Your role will set directions for research to maintain effective oversight of safe AGI and work on research projects to identify and mitigate misuse and misalignment in our AI systems. You will play a critical role in defining how a safe AI system should look in the future at OpenAI, making a significant impact on our mission to build and deploy safe AGI.
Responsibilities
Develop and refine AI monitor models to detect and mitigate known and emerging patterns of misuse and misalignment.
Set research directions and strategies to make our AI systems safer, more aligned, and more robust.
Evaluate and design effective red-teaming pipelines to examine the end-to-end robustness of our safety systems, and identify areas for future improvement.
Conduct research to improve models’ ability to reason about questions of human values, and apply these improved models to practical safety challenges.
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.
Qualifications
Minimum
4+ years of experience in the field of AI safety, especially in areas like RLHF, human-AI collaboration, fairness & biases.
Hold a Ph.D. or other degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
4+ years of research engineering experience and proficiency in Python or similar languages.
Preferred
Are excited about OpenAI’s mission of building safe, universally beneficial AGI and are aligned with OpenAI’s charter
Show enthusiasm for AI safety and dedication to enhancing the safety of cutting-edge AI models for real-world use.
Thrive in environments involving large-scale AI systems.