Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $380K - $500K. Posted on Aug 10, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are seeking exceptional researchers who can push the frontier of safety mitigations. You will help derisk frontier models by developing novel safety mitigations, developing and applying new techniques from domains like interpretability, control, and alignment to ensure the safety of OpenAI’s deployed models. You will play a critical role in defining how a safe AI system should look in the future at OpenAI, making…
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