Red Team Specialist - Cyber

About the Team

The Intelligence and Investigations team is dedicated to ensuring the safe, responsible deployment of AI by rapidly detecting and mitigating abuse. Our team leverages the latest testing methodologies to uncover vulnerabilities and emerging threats, helping safeguard OpenAI’s products and users. We work closely with cross-functional partners across product, policy, and engineering to drive a comprehensive defense strategy against evolving adversarial challenges.

You might thrive in this role if you:

Bring substantial depth in at least one of the following areas:

• Cybersecurity, such as application security, penetration testing, vulnerability research, adversary simulation, or red-team operations. You can assess whether a demonstrated capability is reliable, feasible, and meaningfully dangerous.
• AI model evaluation, such as designing and running evals, building agentic harnesses, automating adversarial testing, constructing datasets, or analyzing model behavior at scale. You can turn an ambiguous risk question into a reproducible testing approach.

Across either profile, you should also have:

• Working literacy across both cybersecurity and model evaluation, with an interest in developing further depth outside your primary area.
• The ability to write code and build practical testing tools, particularly for automating experiments, orchestrating models, or analyzing results.
• An attacker mindset and an interest in discovering failure modes that standard evaluations may not capture.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical findings, limitations, and risk to audiences with different backgrounds.
• Experience working across technical and non-technical teams to move from a finding to a decision, mitigation, or follow-up test.

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.

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