Research Engineer - Scientist, Robustness & Safety Training

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🕒 July 2, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $245k - $440k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📚 Research Engineer

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OpenAI

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

OpenAI is a leading research organization and company dedicated to creating advanced artificial intelligence technology, with a strong emphasis on safety and ethical considerations. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The company develops AI products like ChatGPT, which can assist users with tasks ranging from everyday requests to complex enterprise solutions. OpenAI also provides an API platform that integrates its AI models into various applications. The company is focused on innovation in AI and improving data analysis capabilities, while emphasizing safety and ethical governance of their systems.

📋 Description

• The Safety Systems team is responsible for various safety work to ensure our best models can be safely deployed to the real world to benefit the society. • The Model Safety Research team aims to advance our capabilities for precisely implementing robust, safe behavior in AI models. • We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. • OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher with passion for AI safety and experience in safety research. • Your role will set directions for research to enable and empower safe AGI and work on research projects to make our AI systems safer, more aligned and more robust to adversarial or malicious use cases. • You will play a critical role in shaping how a safe AI system should look like in the future at OpenAI.

🎯 Requirements

• Are excited about OpenAI’s mission of building safe, universally beneficial AGI and are aligned with OpenAI’s charter • Demonstrate a passion for AI safety and making cutting-edge AI models safer for real-world use. • Bring 4+ years of experience in the field of AI safety, especially in areas like RLHF, adversarial training, robustness, fairness & biases. • Hold a Ph.D. or other degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field. • Possess experience in safety work for AI model deployment • Have an in-depth understanding of deep learning research and/or strong engineering skills. • Are a team player who enjoys collaborative work environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family • Mental health and wellness support • 401(k) plan with 50% matching • Generous time off, many company holidays, and multiple coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge. • Paid parental leave (24 weeks paid birth-parent leave & 20-week paid parental leave) and family-planning support • Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)