Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search

The role

You will lead safety and alignment research by building systems to distinguish useful web content from spam and adversarial material. You will define technical approaches, build classifiers and evaluations, and shape how integrity signals influence Search indexing and retrieval.

What you will do

• Define the technical direction for Safety + Integrity.
• Develop AI and ML systems to detect spam, scams, phishing, malicious domains, and prompt injections.
• Discover useful signals across page content, links, domains, metadata, and website relationships.
• Build evaluations to measure detection quality and integrity interventions.
• Translate detection signals into indexing, ranking, and filtering decisions.
• Serve as the technical owner for integrity within Search.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience in web spam, search quality, adversarial content detection, or related integrity problems at scale.
• Strong applied ML and research skills.
• Experience developing classifiers, detection methods, and evaluations for real-world systems.
• An understanding of how adversaries manipulate content and links, coordinate across sites, and adapt to detection systems.
• A track record of independently defining ambiguous technical problems and driving solutions from experimentation through production.
• Experience working across research, engineering, and integrity teams.

Nice to have

• A first-principles approach to using frontier models and compute.
• A strong interest in keeping detection systems effective as adversaries evolve.

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.