# Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations at OpenAI

- Company: OpenAI
- What the company does: Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.
- Company website: https://openai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $380K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/e1cc86e5-b56c-49c0-a4a6-8cf766c27281
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openai-researcher-agent-safety-training-and-evaluations/

## About the role

Train and evaluate frontier models to reduce harmful or misaligned agent actions, forming clear hypotheses and executing independently through ambiguity. Mine incidents and build scalable measurement, data-processing, and evaluation systems that turn real failures into repeatable safety signals.

Tags: Safety Systems