Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats

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$293K-$405K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Security From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats San Francisco, California, United States About the team Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: - Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems. - Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future. - Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI's preparedness framework , and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets. This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society. About the role As AI agents become more capable at software engineering, and automate more of our internal work, they could become a dangerous cyber threat. People in this role will help OpenAI prepare for security threats from advanced AI agent insiders. In this role, you will: - Identify paths by which capable future internal AI agents could compromise OpenAI. - Design security controls - focusing on measures with long lead times that benefit from advanced preparation. - Stress-test defenses with AI agent evaluations and penetration tests You might thrive in this role if you: - Are deeply technical across security and modern infrastructure, and are comfortable digging into the details of operating systems, cloud, containers, CI/CD, or distributed systems. - Have strong software engineering skills and enjoy building prototypes yourself. - Are interested in engaging

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