Research Engineer, Preparedness San Francisco Bay - San Francisco, CA, United States - OpenAI

Description

Frontier AI models have the potential to benefit all of humanity, but also pose increasingly severe risks.

To ensure that AI promotes positive change, we have dedicated a team to help us best prepare for the development of increasingly capable frontier AI models.

This team, Preparedness, reports directly to our CTO and is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.

Closely monitor and predict the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems, with an eye towards misuse risks whose impact could be catastrophic (not necessarily existential) to our society; Ensure we have concrete procedures, infrastructure and partnerships to mitigate these risks and, more broadly, to safely handle the development of powerful AI systems.

We are looking to hire exceptional research engineers that can push the boundaries of our frontier models.

Specifically, we are looking for those that will help us shape our empirical grasp of the whole spectrum of AI safety concerns and will own individual threads within this endeavor end-to-end.

Work on identifying emerging AI safety risks and new methodologies for exploring the impact of these risks
Build (and then continuously refine) evaluations of frontier AI models that assess the extent of identified risks
Contribute to the refinement of risk management and the overall development of "best practice" guidelines for AI safety evaluations
Passionate and knowledgeable about short-term and long-term AI safety risks
Experienced in ML research engineering, ML observability and monitoring, creating large language model-enabled applications, and/or another technical domain applicable to AI risk
Able to operate effectively in a dynamic and extremely fast-paced research environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end
First-hand experience in red-teaming systems—be it computer systems or otherwise
A good understanding of the (nuances of) societal aspects of AI deployment

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link .

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared.

Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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