3 hours ago
Base Salary
$347k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain software supporting cybersecurity research, frontier-risk evaluations, and red teaming.
- Develop tools and workflows for running evaluations, inspecting results, and investigating failures.
- Build services, APIs, data pipelines, and interfaces for research workflows.
- Turn experimental workflows into reusable, well-tested, documented systems.
- Own projects from problem definition and solution design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation.
- Improve reliability, performance, observability, security, and usability.
- Collaborate with researchers, security specialists, and engineers to identify problems and make technical decisions.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building, shipping, and maintaining production software.
- Proficiency in a general-purpose programming language and ability to learn unfamiliar tools and systems.
- Experience in one or more areas such as backend development, full-stack applications, infrastructure, or data systems.
- Ability to clarify open-ended problems and deliver useful solutions.
- Ability to balance rapid iteration with maintainable design and operational reliability.
- Clear communication and ability to collaborate across technical disciplines.
- Interest in understanding advanced AI systems and addressing their risks.
- Experience with security, developer tools, research infrastructure, evaluation platforms, distributed systems, or AI applications is valuable; prior AI research or cybersecurity experience is helpful but not required.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About OpenAI
OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.