The Preparedness team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models
Job Summary
The Preparedness team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.
This role is for an experienced, highly autonomous individual contributor who can take ambiguous problem statements, structure rigorous analyses, and translate findings into actionable product and policy changes.
You’ll help create mitigation intelligence and monitoring systems that enable OpenAI to detect issues early, measure effectiveness over time, and reduce both over-blocking and under-blocking.
Matching Summary
The Preparedness team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Mitigation intelligence and monitoring systems
Error analysis and root cause investigation
Monitoring and measurement frameworks
Customer feedback and usage pattern analysis
Risk monitoring expansion
Cross-functional impact with partners
Nice-to-have
Autonomous operator
Executive-ready communication
Translating analysis into product changes
Genuine interest in AI safety
Key Requirements
Significant experience in data science or applied analytics
Strong foundations in experimentation, causal thinking, and/or observational inference
Fluency in SQL and Python
Experience building metrics, dashboards, and operational monitoring
Cybersecurity data science experience (strong preference)
Experience with classifier evaluation, calibration, thresholding, and error analysis
Familiarity with detection systems in adversarial settings