Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $295K - $500K. Posted on Aug 4, 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 with strong empirical ML expertise and a deep interest in model behavior, alignment, or interpretability. Direct chain-of-thought interpretability experience is welcome but not required; strong candidates may come from broader interpretability, alignment, model training, or investigative model-behavior work. As a researcher on the Alignment team, you will design and run experiments…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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