Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $198K - $425K. Posted on May 5, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Protection Scientists within Integrity design, orchestrate, and mature systems of defence against usage harms enabled by OpenAI's products. We are systems thinkers that combine deep harm domain expertise with breadth across investigation, data science, machine learning, policy and operations. Our distinctive strength is understanding how these disciplines fit together and translating between them to design and build…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
Hiring at OpenAI
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