About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on Aug 7, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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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:
1. Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems.
2. Mitigation. Keeping misalignment safeguards, alignment tools, and on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future.
3. Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework https://openai.com/index/updating-our-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.