Abuse Investigator (AI Self-Improvement Risk)
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires real world deployment and iteratively updating based on what we learn.
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Abuse Investigator (AI Self-Improvement Risk) at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires real world deployment and iteratively updating based on what we learn.
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- Review leads, investigate model behavior, and identify cases where systems demonstrate agentic or autonomous patterns that that introduce safety risks
- Detect and analyze behaviors such as multi-step planning, capability chaining, tool use, persistence, and workaround behavior
- Develop signals and tracking strategies to help proactively identify emerging agentic risk patterns across our platform
- Identify gaps in existing safeguards, evaluations, or monitoring systems and propose improvements
- Communicate investigation findings clearly to technical, policy, and leadership stakeholders
- Be someone people enjoy working with and appreciate the opportunity to help others
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- Review leads, investigate model behavior, and identify cases where systems demonstrate agentic or autonomous patterns that that introduce safety risks
- Detect and analyze behaviors such as multi-step planning, capability chaining, tool use, persistence, and workaround behavior
- Develop signals and tracking strategies to help proactively identify emerging agentic risk patterns across our platform
- Identify gaps in existing safeguards, evaluations, or monitoring systems and propose improvements
- Communicate investigation findings clearly to technical, policy, and leadership stakeholders
- Be someone people enjoy working with and appreciate the opportunity to help others
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