Hybrid Lead Research Engineer/Scientist, Chemical and Biological Risk

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About the role

  • Design, implement, and oversee an end-to-end mitigation stack to prevent severe chemical and biological misuse across OpenAI’s products
  • Lead the full-stack mitigation strategy and implement solutions for biological and chemical misuse—from prevention to enforcement
  • Ensure safeguards integrate seamlessly across OpenAI products and scale with usage
  • Set the technical strategy, drive execution, and make decisive calls on technical trade-offs within the bio risk domain
  • Partner with risk modeling leadership to align mitigation design with anticipated risks and coverage
  • Drive rigorous safeguard testing by stress-testing the mitigation stack against evolving threats and product surfaces
  • Collaborate cross-functionally across research, policy, product, and engineering to ensure enforceable, scalable safeguards

Requirements

  • Passion for AI safety and motivated to make cutting-edge AI models safer for real-world use
  • Demonstrated experience in deep learning and transformer models
  • Proficiency with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles
  • Familiarity with methods for training and fine-tuning large language models, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization
  • Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams across research, policy, product, and engineering
  • Decisive leadership in high-stakes, ambiguous environments
  • Significant experience designing and deploying technical safeguards at scale
  • (Nice to have) Background knowledge in biosecurity, computational biology, or adjacent technical fields

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Performance-related bonuses for eligible employees
  • Generous equity awards
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)

Job title

Lead Research Engineer/Scientist, Chemical and Biological Risk

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$460,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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