# Researcher, Automated Red Teaming

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, California
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $295k – $445k/yr
**Skills:** LLMs, AI Agents, Automated Red Teaming, Adversarial Ml, Jailbreak Detection, Chain-Of-Thought, Python, Machine Learning, Evaluations, Software Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-02-23

> Leads automated red teaming efforts to discover failure modes in frontier AI models, focusing on cyber, bio, and loss-of-control risks. Builds scalable systems and partners across teams to implement mitigations reducing catastrophic harm.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Own research and technical direction for automated red teaming across catastrophic risk areas, initially emphasizing:
  - Automated classifier jailbreak discovery (cyber and bio)
  - Automated bio threat-development elicitation (worst-feasible planning uplift)
  - CoT monitoring evasion probing (and adjacent loss-of-control evaluations)
- Partner with vertical risk teams (Cyber, Bio, Loss of Control) to define threat models, prioritize targets, and land mitigations
- Collaborate with Classifiers team to turn attacks into training data, evals, and robustness gains
- Work with product/eng/safety stakeholders to ensure ART outputs are operationally useful

## Requirements

- Strong motivation toward AI safety and reducing catastrophic risk
- Experience breaking systems and finding high-severity failure modes
- Strong applied research instincts for reproducible, interpretable evaluations
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and agents (multi-turn behaviors, tool use, adaptation to constraints)
- Ability to build scalable automation and production pipelines
- Solid software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, testing)
- Threat modeling and incentive thinking
- Clear communication to drive alignment and prioritization

**Nice to have:** Experience in adversarial ML, security research/red teaming, abuse prevention, or large-scale eval infrastructure.

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