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Overview
Join OpenAI as a Threat Modeler to identify and forecast risks from frontier AI systems, ensuring robust evaluation frameworks and safeguards. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
In This Role, You Will
- •Develop and maintain comprehensive threat models across all misuse areas (bio, cyber, attack planning, etc.).
- •Develop plausible and convincing threat models across loss of control, self-improvement, and other possible alignment risks from frontier AI systems.
- •Forecast risks by combining technical foresight, adversarial simulation, and emerging trends.
- •Pair closely with technical partners on capability evaluations to ensure these map to and cover the gambit of severe risks differentially enabled by frontier AI systems.
- •Pair closely with Bio and Cyber Leads to size the remaining risk of the designed safeguards and translate threat models into actionable mitigation designs.
- •Act as the thought partner and explainer of “why” and “when” for high-investment mitigation efforts—helping stakeholders understand the rationale behind prioritization.
- •Serve as the central node connecting technical, governance, and policy perspectives on prioritization, focus and rationale on our approach to misuse risk.
You Might Thrive in This Role If You
- •Understand risks from frontier AI systems and have a strong grasp of AI alignment literature.
- •Bring deep experience in threat modeling, risk analysis, or adversarial thinking (e.g., security, national security, or safety).
- •Know how AI evaluations work and can connect eval results to both capability testing and safeguard sufficiency.
- •Enjoy working across technical and policy domains to drive rigorous, multidisciplinary risk assessments.
- •Communicate complex risks clearly and compellingly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- •Think in systems and naturally anticipate second-order and cascading risks.