Researcher, Safety Training, National Security
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- USD $380,000 – $500,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Data & Analytics
- Posted
- 4 weeks ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $330k to $420k at a frontier lab. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 4+ years · posts $380k to $500k base at a frontier lab · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from OpenAI's posting.
Safety post-training research on AI models built for U.S. government use, with a focus on national security applications. The work improves how models follow nuanced safety policies and resist bad actors while keeping their usefulness and capabilities intact. It sits in the Safety Training research team, which covers safe behavior training, robustness, and privacy and security risks in deployed models.
What you'd do
- Develop evaluations and identify model failure modes.
- Use evaluation findings to improve model training.
What it asks for
- Over four years of AI safety work covering RLHF, adversarial training, or robustness.
- Solid skills in deep learning research or engineering.
- Experience making models safer before they ship.
- Current TS/SCI clearance or an equivalent level.
Worth knowing
- Requires an active TS/SCI clearance or equivalent.
Terms in this role
- RLHF.
- Reinforcement learning from human feedback: training an AI model on people's ratings of its answers.
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About OpenAI

The employer
About OpenAI
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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