Researcher, Safety & Privacy

About The Team

Our Safety Systems org ensures that OpenAI’s most capable models can be responsibly developed and deployed. We build evaluations, safeguards, and safety frameworks that help our models behave as intended in real-world settings.

About The Role

We are seeking a Researcher in Privacy-Preserving Safety to help design and build the next generation of privacy-preserving safety systems for frontier AI models. This role sits at the intersection of AI safety, security, and privacy, with a focus on developing auditable, privacy-first mechanisms that enable robust harm detection and mitigation without exposing sensitive user data.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement privacy-first architectures for detecting and mitigating harmful model behaviors.
• Build frameworks for auditable private identification of high-risk content (jailbreaks, cyber threats, or weaponization instructions).
• Develop strict, auditable mechanisms triggered only by harm signals.
• Drive the development of automated safety systems that preserve privacy at every level.

Requirements

• A PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Cryptography, Security, Machine Learning, or related fields.
• The ability to translate ambiguous problem spaces into formal frameworks and deployable systems.
• Proficiency in one or more of: Privacy-preserving computation (e.g., secure enclaves, MPC, differential privacy), Security and adversarial systems, Machine learning safety or alignment, Experience designing robust systems under adversarial threat models, Experience with AI safety, jailbreak detection, or model alignment, Familiarity with privacy-preserving machine learning techniques, algorithmic auditing and/or secure system design.

Qualifications

• Deep interest in privacy, security, and AI safety, motivated by building systems that are both trustworthy and effective at scale.

Skills

• Strong background in AI safety, security, and privacy.
• Experience with privacy-preserving computation, security, and adversarial systems.
• Knowledge of machine learning safety or alignment.
• Experience with AI safety, jailbreak detection, or model alignment.
• Familiarity with privacy-preserving machine learning techniques, algorithmic auditing, and secure system design.

Benefits

OpenAI offers a competitive compensation range of $295K - $445K, along with comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

$295K - $445K

Schedule

Full-time

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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