Frontier AI Misalignment Monitoring Lead

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 280.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher to lead misalignment monitoring for frontier AI systems. You will set priorities, design rigorous evaluations, and drive improvements to monitoring signals and safety systems across OpenAI's models and products.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to turn monitoring research into practical enhancements, tackle complex failure modes, and push the boundaries of responsible AI deployment while maintaining strong research judgment and technical

Formación

• Strong ML research background focused on model evaluations, AI safety, alignment, robustness.
• Proven ability to lead technically challenging research projects.
• Ability to design reproducible evaluations.
• Hands-on experience building or evaluating ML systems, including large language models or frontier AI systems.
• Comfort with open-ended research problems and independent execution.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across research, engineering and safety teams.
• Experience mentoring researchers or coordinating cross-functional initiatives.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the research and technical direction for evaluating and improving the misalignment monitoring of frontier AI systems.
• Design and execute rigorous evaluations that measure monitor effectiveness, identify failure modes, and assess the reliability of monitoring signals.
• Develop methods to stress-test and red-team monitors, including identifying behaviors that evade detection or expose weaknesses in existing approaches.
• Investigate false positives, missed detections, and other monitoring failures to improve the accuracy and usefulness of safety evaluations.
• Build scalable evaluation frameworks and experimental tools that enable ongoing measurement of monitoring performance as model capabilities evolve.
• Translate research findings into actionable improvements, working with partner teams to strengthen monitoring systems and inform broader safety decisions.
• Establish research priorities and guide technical execution, balancing foundational research questions with practical deployment needs.

Conocimientos

Machine learning research

Safety/AI alignment

Research leadership

Experimentation and evaluation

Cross-team communication

Descripción del empleo

OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher to lead misalignment monitoring for frontier AI systems. You will set priorities, design rigorous evaluations, and drive improvements to monitoring signals and safety systems across OpenAI's models and products.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to turn monitoring research into practical enhancements, tackle complex failure modes, and push the boundaries of responsible AI deployment while maintaining strong research judgment and technical