Researcher, Pretraining Safety
OpenAI • San Francisco, California • Posted June 19, 2026
About the Role
About the Team
The is responsible for various safety work to ensure our best models can be safely deployed to the real world to benefit the society and is at the forefront of OpenAI's mission to build and deploy safe AGI, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering a culture of trust and transparency.
The Pretraining Safety team’s goal is to build safer, more capable base models and enable earlier, more reliable safety evaluation during training. We aim to:
Develop upstream safety evaluations that to monitor how and when unsafe behaviors and goals emerge;
Create safer priors through targeted pretraining and mid-training interventions that make downstream alignment more effective and efficient
Design safe-by-design architectures that allow for more controllability of model capabilities
In addition, we will conduct the foundational research necessary for understanding ho...