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Safety Systems sits at the forefront of OpenAI’s mission to build and deploy safe AGI, ensuring our most capable models can be released responsibly and for the benefit of society. Within Safety Systems, we are building a misalignment research team to focus on the most pressing problems for the future of AGI. Our mandate is to identify, quantify, and understand future AGI misalignment risks far in advance of when they can pose harm.
The work of this research taskforce spans four pillars:
Worst‑Case Demonstrations
– Craft compelling, reality‑anchored demos that reveal how AI systems can go wrong. We focus especially on high importance cases where misaligned AGI could pursue goals at odds with human well being.
Adversarial & Frontier Safety Evaluations
– Transform those demos into rigorous, repeatable evaluations that measure dangerous capabilities and residual risks. Topics of interest include deceptive behavior, scheming, reward hacking, deception in reasoning, and power-seeking, along with other related areas.
System‑Level Stress Testing
– Build automated infrastructure to probe entire product stacks, assessing end‑to‑end robustness under extreme conditions. We treat misalignment as an evolving adversary, escalating tests until we find breaking points even as systems continue to improve.
Alignment Stress‑Testing Research
– Investigate why mitigations break, publishing insights that shape strategy and next‑generation safeguards. We collaborate with other labs when useful and actively share misalignment findings to accelerate collective progress.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Researcher who is passionate about red‑teaming and AI safety. In this role you will design and execute cutting‑edge attacks, build adversarial evaluations, and advance our understanding of how safety measures can fail—and how to fix them. Your insights will directly influence OpenAI’s product launches and long‑term safety roadmap.
In this role, you will
- Design and implement worst‑case demonstrations that make AGI alignment risks concrete for stakeholders, focused on high stakes use cases described above.
- Develop adversarial and system‑level evaluations grounded in those demonstrations, driving adoption across OpenAI.
- Create automated tools and infrastructure to scale automated red‑teaming and stress testing.
- Conduct research on failure modes of alignment techniques and propose improvements.
- Publish influential internal or external papers that shift safety strategy or industry practice. We aim to concretely reduce existential AI risk.
- Partner with engineering, research, policy, and legal teams to integrate findings into product safeguards and governance processes.
- Mentor engineers and researchers, fostering a culture of rigorous, impact‑oriented safety work.
You might thrive in this role if you
- Already are thinking about these problems night and day, and share our mission to build safe, universally beneficial AGI and align with the OpenAI Charter.
- Have 4+ years of experience in AI red‑teaming, security research, adversarial ML, or related safety fields.
- Possess a strong research track record—publications, open‑source projects, or high‑impact internal work—demonstrating creativity in uncovering and exploiting system weaknesses.
- Are fluent in modern ML / AI techniques and comfortable hacking on large‑scale codebases and evaluation infrastructure.
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical audiences, translating complex findings into actionable recommendations.
- Enjoy collaboration and can drive cross‑functional projects that span research, engineering, and policy.
- Hold a Ph.D., master’s degree, or equivalent experience in computer science, machine learning, security, or a related discipline (nice to have but not required).
ABOUT OPENAI
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see
OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $295K – $445K + Offers Equity
ABOUT THE TEAM
Safety Systems sits at the forefront of OpenAI’s mission to build and deploy safe AGI, ensuring our most capable models can be released responsibly and for the benefit of society. Within Safety Systems, we are building a misalignment research team to focus on the most pressing problems for the future of AGI. Our mandate is to identify, quantify, and understand future AGI misalignment risks far in advance of when they can pose harm.
The work of this research taskforce spans four pillars:
Worst‑Case Demonstrations
– Craft compelling, reality‑anchored demos that reveal how AI systems can go wrong. We focus especially on high importance cases where misaligned AGI could pursue goals at odds with human well being.
Adversarial & Frontier Safety Evaluations
– Transform those demos into rigorous, repeatable evaluations that measure dangerous capabilities and residual risks. Topics of interest include deceptive behavior, scheming, reward hacking, deception in reasoning, and power-seeking, along with other related areas.
System‑Level Stress Testing
– Build automated infrastructure to probe entire product stacks, assessing end‑to‑end robustness under extreme conditions. We treat misalignment as an evolving adversary, escalating tests until we find breaking points even as systems continue to improve.
Alignment Stress‑Testing Research
– Investigate why mitigations break, publishing insights that shape strategy and next‑generation safeguards. We collaborate with other labs when useful and actively share misalignment findings to accelerate collective progress.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Researcher who is passionate about red‑teaming and AI safety. In this role you will design and execute cutting‑edge attacks, build adversarial evaluations, and advance our understanding of how safety measures can fail—and how to fix them. Your insights will directly influence OpenAI’s product launches and long‑term safety roadmap.
In this role, you will
- Design and implement worst‑case demonstrations that make AGI alignment risks concrete for stakeholders, focused on high stakes use cases described above.
- Develop adversarial and system‑level evaluations grounded in those demonstrations, driving adoption across OpenAI.
- Create automated tools and infrastructure to scale automated red‑teaming and stress testing.
- Conduct research on failure modes of alignment techniques and propose improvements.
- Publish influential internal or external papers that shift safety strategy or industry practice. We aim to concretely reduce existential AI risk.
- Partner with engineering, research, policy, and legal teams to integrate findings into product safeguards and governance processes.
- Mentor engineers and researchers, fostering a culture of rigorous, impact‑oriented safety work.
You might thrive in this role if you
- Already are thinking about these problems night and day, and share our mission to build safe, universally beneficial AGI and align with the OpenAI Charter.
- Have 4+ years of experience in AI red‑teaming, security research, adversarial ML, or related safety fields.
- Possess a strong research track record—publications, open‑source projects, or high‑impact internal work—demonstrating creativity in uncovering and exploiting system weaknesses.
- Are fluent in modern ML / AI techniques and comfortable hacking on large‑scale codebases and evaluation infrastructure.
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical audiences, translating complex findings into actionable recommendations.
- Enjoy collaboration and can drive cross‑functional projects that span research, engineering, and policy.
- Hold a Ph.D., master’s degree, or equivalent experience in computer science, machine learning, security, or a related discipline (nice to have but not required).
ABOUT OPENAI
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see
OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $295K – $445K + Offers Equity
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Translate your Australian credentials for U.S. employers
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees are generally accepted as equivalent to U.S. four-year degrees for E-3 visa purposes, but your transcripts and degree certificates should explicitly list coursework. USCIS may request a credential evaluation if your degree field doesn't directly match the research role title.
Target institutions with established visa infrastructure
Universities, government-funded research labs, think tanks, and large pharmaceutical or biotech firms file LCAs regularly and have in-house HR processes for sponsoring international staff. Smaller private research consultancies may be willing but unfamiliar with E-3 mechanics, so ask whether they've sponsored before.
Confirm the role meets specialty occupation standards
A research position qualifies as a specialty occupation when a specific degree field is genuinely required, not just preferred. If the job posting says 'bachelor's degree in any field,' that language can disqualify the role for E-3 purposes, so request that the offer letter specifies the required discipline.
Get your LCA filed before scheduling your consulate appointment
The DOL must certify your Labor Condition Application before you can submit your DS-160 or schedule a consulate interview. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork so you don't create delays by booking an appointment before certification is in hand.
Understand how fixed-term research contracts affect renewals
E-3 renewals require continued employer sponsorship, so grant-funded or project-based positions can create gaps when funding cycles end. Negotiate employment letters that reflect your ongoing role rather than a single grant period, and align your E-3 validity dates with your contract end dates to avoid status gaps.
Use prior publications and grants to demonstrate specialty occupation
If a consular officer questions whether your research role genuinely requires your specific degree, peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, or competitive grant awards in your field serve as concrete evidence that the work is academically and professionally specialized, not general.
E-3 Visa Research: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Research jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. Rather than filtering through general job boards where sponsorship willingness is unclear, Migrate Mate surfaces research positions at employers with active E-3 and LCA filing history, so you're applying where sponsorship is already established practice.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a research role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the position genuinely requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific academic discipline. Roles in applied sciences, data research, social science, laboratory work, or policy analysis typically qualify. The key is that the degree requirement must be real and field-specific, not a general preference for any bachelor's degree. Your offer letter should reflect that specificity.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for research professionals?
The E-3 is available only to Australian citizens and has no lottery, meaning you can start the process as soon as you have a job offer. The H-1B visa requires entering an annual lottery with roughly a one-in-four selection rate and a cap of 85,000 slots per year. For Australians in research roles, the E-3 is a far more reliable and faster path to U.S. employment.
Can I switch research employers while on an E-3?
Yes, but you need a new LCA certified by the DOL and updated visa documentation before you start with the new employer. Unlike the H-1B, there's no portability rule that lets you begin work on receipt of a new petition. If you're already in the U.S., you can change employers but you must complete the LCA and filing process first, which typically takes a few weeks.