Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks

OpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States

Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full time
Posted
June 19, 2026

Job Description

About the team

​​The 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.

The Preparedness team is an important part of the org at OpenAI, and is guided by OpenAI’s .

Frontier AI models have the potential to benefit all of humanity, but also pose increasingly severe risks. To ensure that AI promotes positive change, the Preparedness team helps us prepare for the development of increasingly capable frontier AI models. This team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.

The mission of the Preparedness team is to:

  • Closely monitor and predict the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems, with an eye towards risks whose impact could be catastrophic

  • Ensure we have concrete procedures, ...

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