Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats

OpenAI · San Francisco

Company
OpenAI
Location
San Francisco
Salary
$293,000–$405,000 USD /yr
Employment
Full-time
Workplace
Hybrid
Last updated
2026-05-18
Source
Official Ashby feed

About this role

ABOUT THE TEAM

Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/ that could scale to an extreme level of severity.

Our work involves:

1. Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems.

2. Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future.

3. Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/, and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets.

This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As AI agents become more capable at software engineering, and automate more of our internal work, they could become a dangerous cyber threat. People in this role will help OpenAI prepare for security threats from advanced AI agent insiders.…

Summary from OpenAI's official Ashby career feed — read the full description on the original posting

Apply on OpenAI's site

The salary and details above come straight from OpenAI's official Ashby feed. The full job description lives on OpenAI's careers page — AI Stack Jobs links you straight to it, we never sit between you and the employer.

More AI/ML roles at OpenAI

  1. 2026-08-17 San Francisco
  2. 2026-08-17 US - Remote Remote
  3. 2026-08-15 Ontario - Remote Remote
  4. 2026-08-14 San Francisco
  5. 2026-08-14 São Paulo
  6. 2026-08-13 San Francisco