Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats
About The Position
Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems. Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future. Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework, and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets. This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society. As AI agents become more capable at software engineering, and automate more of our internal work, they could become a dangerous cyber threat. People in this role will help OpenAI prepare for security threats from advanced AI agent insiders.
Requirements
- Deeply technical across security and modern infrastructure, and comfortable digging into the details of operating systems, cloud, containers, CI/CD, or distributed systems.
- Strong software engineering skills and enjoy building prototypes yourself.
- Interested in engaging with stakeholders and can do so effectively.
Nice To Haves
- Experience securing cloud infrastructure.
- Deeply familiar with core components of the AI stack.
Responsibilities
- Identify paths by which capable future internal AI agents could compromise OpenAI.
- Design security controls - focusing on measures with long lead times that benefit from advanced preparation.
- Stress-test defenses with AI agent evaluations and penetration tests
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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