Device Safety & Risk Operations Specialist, User Safety & Risk Operations
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- USD $252,000 – $335,000 base
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Investigations
- Posted
- 3 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $240k to $310k at a frontier lab. Key skills at this level: runs an investigation end to end, from signal to enforcement to writeup, builds and maintains the tradecraft others on the team follow, and works law enforcement and external referral pathways correctly.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 8+ years · posts $252k to $335k base at a frontier lab · the title reads as P2 · sets strategy beyond one team.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from OpenAI's posting.
Builds the safety and risk operating model for a new category of OpenAI consumer hardware, covering product-safety incidents, critical escalations, regulated cases and privacy-sensitive issues. The User Safety & Risk Operations team builds operational capacity for new, ambiguous areas of work and works with partner teams to make it durable.
What you'd do
- Set the incident categories, severity tiers, decision authority, escalation triggers and closure rules for device safety.
- Draft frontline playbooks for product-safety events, critical escalations, safety advisories and corrective actions.
- Map out handling for regulated and privacy-sensitive cases, covering restricted access, evidence standards and audit trails.
- Prepare launch plans, tabletop drills, training, quality checks and post-launch monitoring.
- Use telemetry, customer signals and case outcomes to spot patterns and feed fixes back into products.
- Stand up priority workflows through launch, then hand them off to lasting owners in USRO and partner teams.
What it asks for
- Ability to communicate with operational, technical, legal and executive audiences when evidence is incomplete.
- Experience with privacy-sensitive sensor, diagnostic, media or household data workflows (preferred).
Worth knowing
- May involve exposure to sensitive or concerning material.
- Background check required, administered under applicable law.
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AI and model safety · San Francisco, CA · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2015
AI research company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models.
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