Staff AI Engineer
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PythonPyTorchTensorflow
Lead Research Engineer/Scientist, Chemical and Biological Risk
OpenAI
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $460,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
PyTorchTensorflow
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
