Applied Risk Standards Architect

The role

The Applied Risk Standards Architect will lead standards work for applied risk in applications such as mental health, youth safety, and privacy. You will turn research and safety policies into measurable standards and represent the company in priority standards bodies.

What you will do

• Lead the development of applied AI risk standards for mental health, youth safety, age assurance, efficacy, reliability, and privacy-related risks.
• Turn research, internal policies, and evaluation methods into credible test methods and assessment criteria.
• Bring emerging requirements into internal planning.
• Work with technical and GRC partners on assessor competence, independence, and reporting.
• Contribute drafting, representation, and coordination on frontier risk-management and independent-assessment standards.
• Lead assigned standards-body workstreams and negotiate proposals.
• Coordinate internal input for ISO/IEC, INCITS, NIST consortium, and cross-industry work.
• Maintain clear approvals, negotiating positions, and implementation handoffs.

Required qualifications

• Technical depth in evaluation science, AI evaluations and red teaming, AI safety, or trust and safety.
• Ability to translate expertise into credible standards or assessment methods.
• Experience authoring or materially shaping standards, evaluation criteria, control frameworks, or normative technical contributions.
• Ability to translate a broad safety objective into a clear requirement and explain evidence for it.
• Understanding of differences among risk-management processes, model and system evaluations, mitigation testing, and assurance claims.
• Ability to evaluate sensitive, context-dependent outcomes including uncertainty and variation.
• Understanding of how assessor competence, independence, incentives, and access affect assessment credibility.
• Ability to build consensus and communicate clearly with technical teams, lawyers, executives, policymakers, and external standards participants.
• Ability to write precisely and independently move workstreams from proposal through handoff.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company seeks to safely deploy AI through its products while valuing diverse perspectives.