Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $380K - $850K. Posted on Oct 21, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for a Researcher to lead our safety and alignment research: building the systems that distinguish useful web content from spam, manipulation, and other adversarial or low-quality material. The challenge extends beyond evaluating individual pages. A page may appear credible in isolation, while its links, metadata, or relationships with other sites reveal coordinated manipulation. As AI makes convincing…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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