Biosafety Red Teaming Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead bio red teaming work from a domain perspective, including shaping evaluation questions, scenarios, and success criteria for biology-relevant misuse pathways.
• Review and pressure-test bio red teaming outputs, assess report quality, and help translate findings into concise risk calls and recommended next steps.
• Identify new red teaming engagements or external expert collaborations that would improve OpenAI's visibility into biological and overall CBRN misuse risks.
• Bring an adversarial mindset to assess how malicious actors could attempt to misuse model capabilities across planning, protocol design, procurement, troubleshooting, and operationalization.
• Directly manage Bio Bounty program strategy and maturity, including challenge-question lifecycle, expert researcher pipeline, submission review standards, and program health.
• Partner with operations owners on program execution while providing subject-matter review where biological expertise is required.
• Review Bio Bounty applications and invite known experts when appropriate to strengthen the researcher pool.
• Lead final biological-risk review on eligible submissions before awards, including severity, impact, novelty, and mitigation.
• Lead cross-functional efforts with Preparedness, Safety Systems, Policy, Legal, and other teams to turn high-quality findings into concrete follow-up work.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including concise briefings for leadership when needed.

Requirements

• Technical/scientific background with at least 8 years of technical CBRN experience.
• Deep subject-matter expertise in biosafety, biosecurity, biodefense, synthetic biology, microbiology, public health security, or adjacent CBRN domains, ideally with experience assessing dual-use biological risks.
• Experience with bio red teaming, threat modeling, misuse analysis, adversarial testing, intelligence analysis, or professional casework involving malicious actors or weaponization pathways.
• Strong operations and/or program management experience.
• Ability to prioritize ambiguous findings based on severity, feasibility, novelty, exposure, and potential real-world impact.
• Excellent judgment when handling sensitive biological information and can separate legitimate research from content that may enable harm.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and risk judgments in clear, grounded language for product, policy, safety, legal, and leadership audiences.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally in fast-changing environments where the right answer may require both technical depth and pragmatic execution.
• Technical fluency to partner with data, engineering, and safety teams on signals, tooling, and scalable review processes.
• Resilient and thoughtful when engaging with sensitive, high-stakes material.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience managing a bounty, vulnerability disclosure, external researcher, or expert review program.
• Experience with AI safety evaluations, model red teaming, or frontier model risk assessment.
• Familiarity with how advanced AI systems may affect biological safety, biosecurity, or CBRN risk.