# Threat Modeler, Preparedness

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $325k – $325k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Threat Modeling, Risk Analysis, Adversarial Simulation, Ai Alignment, Ai Evaluations, Bio Risk Assessment, Cyber Risk Assessment, Systems Thinking, Technical Foresight, Multidisciplinary Risk Assessment
**Posted:** 2026-06-17

> Own OpenAI’s holistic approach to identifying, modeling, and forecasting frontier risks from frontier AI systems. Develop threat models across misuse and alignment domains and translate them into actionable mitigation priorities.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain comprehensive threat models across all misuse areas (bio, cyber, attack planning, etc.).
- Develop plausible and convincing threat models across loss of control, self-improvement, and other possible alignment risks from frontier AI systems.
- Forecast risks by combining technical foresight, adversarial simulation, and emerging trends.
- Pair closely with technical partners on capability evaluations to ensure these map to and cover the gambit of severe risks differentially enabled by frontier AI systems.
- Pair closely with Bio and Cyber Leads to size the remaining risk of the designed safeguards and translate threat models into actionable mitigation designs.
- Act as the thought partner and explainer of “why” and “when” for high-investment mitigation efforts—helping stakeholders understand the rationale behind prioritization.
- Serve as the central node connecting technical, governance, and policy perspectives on prioritization, focus and rationale on our approach to misuse risk.

## Requirements
- Understand risks from frontier AI systems and have a strong grasp of AI alignment literature.
- Bring deep experience in threat modeling, risk analysis, or adversarial thinking (e.g., security, national security, or safety).
- Know how AI evaluations work and can connect eval results to both capability testing and safeguard sufficiency.
- Enjoy working across technical and policy domains to drive rigorous, multidisciplinary risk assessments.
- Communicate complex risks clearly and compellingly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Think in systems and naturally anticipate second-order and cascading risks.

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