Safety Transparency Editor, Safety Systems

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

7d•$284,000 - $315,000•Hybrid

About The Position

OpenAI is seeking a Safety Transparency Editor to join the Trustworthy AI team within Safety Systems. This team focuses on ensuring OpenAI's most capable models are developed and deployed responsibly, covering areas like evaluations, safeguards, red teaming, and deployment decisions. The Trustworthy AI team is growing its safety transparency function, which aims to help external audiences understand OpenAI's technical safety work with greater clarity, rigor, and continuity. This involves creating and improving public artifacts such as system cards, the Deployment Safety Hub, safety-related blogs, and public governance documents. The role also includes developing new methods to make technical safety information more understandable and navigable, potentially using AI-assisted workflows, data visualizations, and interactive tools. The Safety Transparency Editor will be responsible for the editorial quality of key safety transparency artifacts and systems. This is a hands-on role requiring the ability to write clear explanations of complex technical safety topics and leverage AI to build systems that enhance the organization's ability to communicate this work. The core responsibility is to shape and execute the external communication of technical safety work, identifying narrative threads, determining essential details, providing context and explanation, translating complexity without sacrificing precision, and communicating both safety measures and remaining uncertainties. This requires educating oneself on OpenAI's technical safety work using AI tools and internal evidence. The editor will serve as the editorial driver for system cards and related transparency materials, collaborating with various internal teams including Safety Programs, researchers, evaluators, red-teamers, policy experts, legal partners, product marketing, communications, and launch stakeholders. The goal is to transform complex technical safety topics into public-facing artifacts that are rigorous, accessible, and faithful to the underlying substance. A key aspect of the role is the deep integration of AI into the editorial practice, not just for learning and drafting, but for rethinking how the work is done, building workflows, automating tasks, improving consistency, and enabling scalable production of transparency artifacts. This role demands deep ownership and accountability, suitable for someone who is comfortable refining explanations and building systems to streamline future work. The ideal candidate combines exceptional editorial judgment with a builder's mindset, comfortable using their voice and judgment with humility, intellectual honesty, and respect for technical nuance. The role involves supporting blogs, governance documents, technical explainers, and evolving the Deployment Safety Hub.

Requirements

Exceptional writing and editing skills to make highly technical topics understandable without sacrificing precision.
Strong editorial judgment to identify narrative threads in complex, ambiguous material, surfacing important details, necessary context, and methods for communicating uncertainty responsibly.
Strong execution instincts and the ability to own complex projects from start to finish.
Ability to synthesize diverse inputs into structured, publication-ready artifacts.
Ability to earn trust and work in close partnership with technical experts to make their work accessible without oversimplifying it.
Deeply AI-native approach to work, instinctively looking for opportunities to automate, systematize, and improve editorial processes.
Commitment to rigor, intellectual honesty, and earning trust through accuracy.
Confidence to use voice and judgment while remaining humble, evidence-driven, and open to feedback.
Ability to learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly and develop fluency in frontier AI safety concepts.

Responsibilities

Serve as the narrative DRI for system cards and related transparency artifacts from initiation through publication.
Partner with the Safety Programs team, researchers, evaluators, red-teamers, policy experts, legal teams, communications partners, and launch teams to translate technical findings into public-facing materials.
Write clear, precise explanations of highly technical safety topics for external audiences without sacrificing rigor or nuance.
Shape the editorial structure and narrative arc of transparency artifacts, ensuring they accurately communicate what OpenAI has done, why it matters, and where uncertainty remains.
Exercise strong editorial judgment to determine what context is necessary, what caveats should be highlighted, and where additional explanation or supporting evidence may be needed to strengthen public understanding.
Improve repeatable editorial processes, templates, and publication workflows.
Use AI tools to accelerate drafting, synthesize source materials, identify precedents, prepare reviewer packets, and improve consistency across artifacts.
Build systems and workflows that make transparency efforts faster, more scalable, and more effective over time.
Support blogs, governance documents, technical explainers, and other technical safety communications when needed.
Help evolve the Deployment Safety Hub and related transparency surfaces over time.