Protection Scientist Engineer @ OpenAI
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About The Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Intelligence and Investigations team supports this goal by identifying and investigating misuses of our products, enabling our partner teams to develop data-backed policies and scaled safety mitigations. This role is part of a broader effort to safely enable users to build useful things with our products.
About The Role
The Protection Scientist Engineer role is an interdisciplinary position mixing data science, machine learning, investigation, and policy/protocol development. You will design and build systems to proactively identify and enforce against abuse on OpenAI’s products. Responsibilities include ensuring robust monitoring for new and existing products, prototyping systems of defense for high-risk harms, and responding to critical escalations. This role involves close collaboration with product, policy, operations, and engineering teams, and requires an investigative mindset and technical expertise.
Key Responsibilities
- Scope and implement abuse monitoring for new product launches.
- Enhance and automate monitoring operations for existing products.
- Prototype and mature systems for detection, review, and enforcement of abuse.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address key risks.
Qualifications
- At least 4 years of technical analysis and detection experience with SQL and Python.
- Experience in trust and safety, or working with policy, enforcement, and engineering teams.
- Knowledge of basic data engineering, machine learning principles, and software development.
- Experience in scaling and automating processes, especially with language models.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is committed to deploying AI that benefits all of humanity. The company values diverse perspectives and is an equal opportunity employer, ensuring a fair and inclusive process.
Key skills/competency
Protection, Data Science, Machine Learning, Investigation, Policy, SQL, Python, Monitoring, Automation, Trust
How to Get Hired at OpenAI
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Research OpenAI's culture: Understand their mission and values.
- Customize your resume: Highlight SQL, Python, and ML skills.
- Showcase project experience: Detail past detection systems work.
- Prepare for behavioral questions: Demonstrate investigative mindset and teamwork.