Frontier AI Risks Lead

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 198,000 - 320,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Analytical thinking","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Writing"]

Informer and strategist role assessing frontier AI risks by scanning signals, building harm taxonomies, and delivering prioritized risk calls to guide mitigations. You’ll use mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to produce actionable intelligence, focusing on upstream ecosystem signals, competitive benchmarking, and external narrative analysis to keep AI products safe and productive.

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Frontier AI Risks Lead

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Job Summary

Informer and strategist role assessing frontier AI risks by scanning signals, building harm taxonomies, and delivering prioritized risk calls to guide mitigations. You’ll use mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to produce actionable intelligence, focusing on upstream ecosystem signals, competitive benchmarking, and external narrative analysis to keep AI products safe and productive.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Map and prioritize emerging risks at the frontier of AI, build and refine harm taxonomies, and contribute to an evergreen frontier risk register and prioritization framework.
  • •Detect and deep dive into emerging abuse patterns through horizon scanning, benchmarking, and external narrative/risk sense-making; stay current on abuse trends.
  • •Turn analysis into actionable risk intelligence by translating findings into ranked risk lists and concrete mitigations for product, safety, and policy teams; collaborate with Global Affairs and Communications.
  • •Build early warning and measurement capabilities by defining core metrics and signals and shaping monitoring views with data science partners.
  • •Provide strategic analysis and future-looking perspectives, including scenario analyses, tabletop exercises, and benchmarking of OpenAI’s risk profile against external incidents.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 198,000 - 320,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience (typically 5+ years) in trust and safety, integrity, security, policy analysis, or intelligence work focused on emerging risks
  • •Ability to analyze complex online harms (e.g., harassment, coordinated abuse, scams, influence operations, brand safety) and translate analysis into prioritized recommendations
  • •Strong analytical skills with comfort using both qualitative and quantitative inputs (e.g., OSINT, casework, policy frameworks; metrics with data science collaboration)
  • •Adversarial and product intuition to foresee misuse of AI and evaluate how product mechanics influence risk
  • •Experience designing and using risk frameworks and taxonomies (harm classification schemes, severity/likelihood matrices)
Experience:5+ yearsAI safetyRisk analysisEmerging risks
Skills:CommunicationAnalytical thinkingProblem-solvingCollaborationWriting
Tech Stack:OSINTData analysisDashboardsScenario planning

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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