Researcher, Misalignment Monitoring Lead

The role

You will lead technical work on misalignment monitoring for frontier AI systems. You will develop methods to evaluate AI monitors, investigate failures, and improve the ability to detect concerning model behavior.

What you will do

• Lead research and technical direction for evaluating and improving misalignment monitoring of frontier AI systems.
• Design and execute rigorous evaluations to measure monitor effectiveness and identify failure modes.
• Develop methods to stress-test and red-team monitors.
• Investigate false positives, missed detections, and other monitoring failures.
• Build scalable evaluation frameworks and experimental tools.
• Translate research findings into actionable improvements for partner teams.
• Establish research priorities and guide technical execution.

Required qualifications

• Strong background in machine learning research, particularly in model evaluations, AI safety, alignment, robustness, or related areas.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically challenging research projects.
• Strong experimental judgment to design rigorous, reproducible evaluations.
• Hands-on experience building or evaluating machine learning systems, including large language models or other frontier AI systems.
• Ability to investigate complex failure modes and develop methods to distinguish safety signals.
• Comfort working on open-ended research problems.
• Ability to independently build experiments, analyze results, and iterate quickly.
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly and collaborate across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI monitoring, automated evaluations, adversarial testing, or red-teaming.
• Research experience in scalable oversight, AI control, model behavior analysis, or interpretability.
• Experience developing monitoring or evaluation systems used in real-world deployments.
• Track record of technical research leadership, including mentoring researchers or coordinating cross-functional research initiatives.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.