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Models are becoming increasingly capable—moving from tools that assist humans to agents that can plan, execute, and adapt in the real world. Mitigating the frontier risks resulting from these capabilities is paramount to OpenAI’s ability to continue deploying models safely. The Preparedness team is dedicated to addressing these critical risks. Our work includes:
- Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems.
- Mitigation. Keeping misalignment safeguards, alignment tools, and 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
Preparedness is hiring strong technical executors to support preparations for accelerated AI development, which may culminate in recursive self-improvement. This work relies on anticipating misalignment risks that might exist in the future, but might not exist now; so it’s especially important that people in this role are tasteful and strategic. The role is wide-ranging, covering any mitigation for loss of control risk, spanning the design and implementation of better pre-deployment risk-assessment, control measures, RSI-relevant training interventions, and turning one’s technical work into established institutional practices and external-facing communications.
Below Is a Subset Of Our Focus Areas
- Scalable oversight: Establishing practices for model misbehavior monitoring and oversight which remain effective in superhuman model capability regimes, with a focus on bridging from today’s monitoring approaches to future-proof ones.
- Automated auditing: As model capabilities increase, we’ll increasingly rely on automated approaches for finding the most severe forms of model misalignments. We’ll both need to sift through large swaths of production traffic to find the most egregious misalignments, and reliably elicit tail risks before deployment.
- Rigorous monitorability: Rigorous testing and red-teaming of our measurements of model misbehavior related to loss-of-control (e.g. reward hacking, sandbagging, scheming). This includes better understanding monitorability, and e.g. preparing for potential losses of Chain-of-Thought monitorability.
- Model behavior science: Design experiments and evaluations to understand the extent to which models are problematically misaligned, or their safety-relevant capabilities lag behind dangerous capabilities. This may include training model organisms of misbehavior for behaviors not currently present in production, or training interventions to increase safety-relevant capabilities.
- Coordination and verification: Prototype technical mechanisms for verifying compliance with potential future AI safety agreements.
- AI R&D risk measurement: Track progress toward automation of technical staff to inform OpenAI’s near-term investments in alignment and security.
- Maintaining and strengthening RSI safety cases: We’re especially interested in identifying and addressing blindspots of mitigation areas which we may have missed. Generally, our team alternates between performing rigorous hypothesis-driven research and turning our insights into interventions or control systems which impact production models, with occasional support of engineering teams.
In This Role, You Will
- Carefully consider the problems OpenAI might face in the future and how to prepare for them.
- Turn an open-ended objective like “prepare for future misalignment threats” into a much more concrete direction (e.g. “stress-test monitors for scheming”) – prioritizing the work that is most useful to start right now.
- Execute quickly, building scrappy prototypes, and then improving them iteratively until they become established components of our safety pipelines.
- Secure buy-in from other staff at OpenAI when necessary, and communicate your work clearly.
- Collaborate with or manage other staff as needed, since we might need to rapidly scale to tackle these problems quickly.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
- Are an exceptional technical executor.
- Have strong strategic and research taste: you can prioritize effectively in domains with weak feedback loops.
- Are passionate about mitigating the risks associated with recursive self-improvement.
- Are driven by a desire to do whatever work most positively impacts the future of AI development.
- Bonus: you have already done work in one of the domains listed above (ML research, AI alignment, AI verification etc).
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, and requests can be made via this link.
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 Range: $295K - $445K
About The Team
Models are becoming increasingly capable—moving from tools that assist humans to agents that can plan, execute, and adapt in the real world. Mitigating the frontier risks resulting from these capabilities is paramount to OpenAI’s ability to continue deploying models safely. The Preparedness team is dedicated to addressing these critical risks. Our work includes:
- Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems.
- Mitigation. Keeping misalignment safeguards, alignment tools, and 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
Preparedness is hiring strong technical executors to support preparations for accelerated AI development, which may culminate in recursive self-improvement. This work relies on anticipating misalignment risks that might exist in the future, but might not exist now; so it’s especially important that people in this role are tasteful and strategic. The role is wide-ranging, covering any mitigation for loss of control risk, spanning the design and implementation of better pre-deployment risk-assessment, control measures, RSI-relevant training interventions, and turning one’s technical work into established institutional practices and external-facing communications.
Below Is a Subset Of Our Focus Areas
- Scalable oversight: Establishing practices for model misbehavior monitoring and oversight which remain effective in superhuman model capability regimes, with a focus on bridging from today’s monitoring approaches to future-proof ones.
- Automated auditing: As model capabilities increase, we’ll increasingly rely on automated approaches for finding the most severe forms of model misalignments. We’ll both need to sift through large swaths of production traffic to find the most egregious misalignments, and reliably elicit tail risks before deployment.
- Rigorous monitorability: Rigorous testing and red-teaming of our measurements of model misbehavior related to loss-of-control (e.g. reward hacking, sandbagging, scheming). This includes better understanding monitorability, and e.g. preparing for potential losses of Chain-of-Thought monitorability.
- Model behavior science: Design experiments and evaluations to understand the extent to which models are problematically misaligned, or their safety-relevant capabilities lag behind dangerous capabilities. This may include training model organisms of misbehavior for behaviors not currently present in production, or training interventions to increase safety-relevant capabilities.
- Coordination and verification: Prototype technical mechanisms for verifying compliance with potential future AI safety agreements.
- AI R&D risk measurement: Track progress toward automation of technical staff to inform OpenAI’s near-term investments in alignment and security.
- Maintaining and strengthening RSI safety cases: We’re especially interested in identifying and addressing blindspots of mitigation areas which we may have missed. Generally, our team alternates between performing rigorous hypothesis-driven research and turning our insights into interventions or control systems which impact production models, with occasional support of engineering teams.
In This Role, You Will
- Carefully consider the problems OpenAI might face in the future and how to prepare for them.
- Turn an open-ended objective like “prepare for future misalignment threats” into a much more concrete direction (e.g. “stress-test monitors for scheming”) – prioritizing the work that is most useful to start right now.
- Execute quickly, building scrappy prototypes, and then improving them iteratively until they become established components of our safety pipelines.
- Secure buy-in from other staff at OpenAI when necessary, and communicate your work clearly.
- Collaborate with or manage other staff as needed, since we might need to rapidly scale to tackle these problems quickly.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
- Are an exceptional technical executor.
- Have strong strategic and research taste: you can prioritize effectively in domains with weak feedback loops.
- Are passionate about mitigating the risks associated with recursive self-improvement.
- Are driven by a desire to do whatever work most positively impacts the future of AI development.
- Bonus: you have already done work in one of the domains listed above (ML research, AI alignment, AI verification etc).
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, and requests can be made via this link.
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 Range: $295K - $445K
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Verify your degree field matches the role
H-1B1 visa eligibility requires your degree to align directly with the Senior Researcher position, not just research broadly. A chemistry degree won't support a computational neuroscience role. Pull the O*NET profile for your target occupation to confirm the standard educational requirement before applying.
Target employers with existing H-1B1 filing history
Research institutions, biotech firms, and federal contractors that have sponsored H-1B1 Singapore visas before already understand the consular process. Use Migrate Mate to filter job listings by employers with verified H-1B1 LCA filing history, so you're not educating a hiring team from scratch.
Request the LCA before your visa appointment
Your employer must file and receive a certified Labor Condition Application from DOL before you can apply at the consulate. Confirm the LCA certification is complete and matches your job title, worksite, and prevailing wage before scheduling your appointment at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore.
Check prevailing wage tier for your specialty
Senior Researcher roles span multiple wage levels depending on specialization and institution type. Run the OFLC Wage Search using your specific Standard Occupational Classification code and worksite zip code to verify your offered wage meets DOL requirements before the LCA is submitted.
Prepare your credential documentation for specialty occupation
Consular officers assess specialty occupation on-the-spot without the USCIS petition process as a buffer. Bring your degree transcripts, any foreign credential evaluations, and a detailed employer letter explaining why the role requires your specific disciplinary training, not just a general research background.
Plan your initial visa duration and renewal cycle
H-1B1 Singapore visas are issued in one-year increments and must be renewed annually through the consulate. Align your renewal timeline with your research contract dates and confirm your employer will resubmit the LCA for each renewal period before signing a multi-year appointment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Researcher role qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as biology, chemistry, computer science, or another relevant discipline. Roles that accept any degree regardless of field, or that substitute years of experience for educational requirements without restriction, may not qualify. Your employer's LCA and supporting documentation must establish the specific degree requirement for your position.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa compare to the H-1B for Senior Researcher positions?
The H-1B1 Singapore visa has no lottery, no USCIS petition filing requirement, and a dedicated annual cap of 5,400 visas that rarely fills, making it significantly more accessible for Singaporean nationals than the H-1B visa. The trade-off is that H-1B1 visas are issued in one-year increments requiring annual consular renewal, whereas approved H-1B petitions can cover up to three years initially.
Where can I find Senior Researcher jobs that specifically offer H-1B1 Singapore visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search for Senior Researcher roles filtered by employers with verified H-1B1 visa LCA filing history, so you can identify institutions already familiar with the consular process. General job boards don't filter by visa type or filing history, which means you'd have to assess each employer's sponsorship experience individually before investing time in an application.
Can I work at multiple research sites on a single H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Each primary worksite must be covered by a separate LCA certified by DOL before you work there. If your Senior Researcher role involves field work, satellite labs, or affiliated institutions in different metropolitan areas, your employer needs to file additional LCAs for each location. Short-term placements at a client or partner site may qualify under a blanket LCA if the employer has one in place.
What happens to my H-1B1 status if my research grant ends before my visa expires?
H-1B1 visa status is tied to your employer and the specific position described in the LCA. If your funding ends and your employment terminates, your authorized status ends with it. Unlike H-1B, there's no statutory grace period codified for H-1B1, so you should immediately discuss a new employer filing or a change of status with your employer's immigration contact if your grant timeline is uncertain.