Researcher, Multimodal Safety 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 a Researcher on the Chat and Multimodal Safety team, you will help shape how frontier models perceive and reason the world, and translate that understanding into safe behavior. We’re looking for people who combine deep technical expertise with strong safety judgment. Strong candidates often bridge perception and language: they may have built vision-language models, worked on modality fusion or image encoders…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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