Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks

The role

You will design and implement an end-to-end mitigation stack to reduce severe cyber misuse across OpenAI's products. This involves integrating safeguards, evaluating technical trade-offs, and executing red-teaming workflows.

What you will do

• Design and implement mitigation components for model-enabled cybersecurity misuse
• Integrate safeguards across product surfaces in partnership with product and engineering teams
• Evaluate technical trade-offs within the cybersecurity risk domain
• Collaborate with risk and threat modeling partners to align mitigation design with attacker behaviors
• Execute rigorous testing and red-teaming workflows

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in deep learning and transformer models
• Proficient with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles
• Familiar with methods for training and fine-tuning large language models, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization
• Significant experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention, detection, and enforcement at scale

Nice to have

• Background knowledge in cybersecurity or adjacent fields

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.