Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $380K - $500K. Posted on Aug 3, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As we push toward AGI, cybersecurity becomes one of the most important and urgent frontiers: the same systems that can accelerate productivity can also accelerate exploitation. As a Researcher for cybersecurity risks, you will help design and implement an end-to-end mitigation stack to reduce severe cyber misuse across OpenAI’s products. This role requires strong technical depth and close cross-functional…
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