Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $380K - $500K. Posted on Sep 3, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
This role focuses on oversight and system-level mitigations that enable increasingly capable agents to operate safely and autonomously in real environments. We prioritize building oversight systems that are used in practice today, both internally and externally (see our recent work on action monitoring for codex https://alignment.openai.com/auto-review/ and former code review…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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