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Threat Modeler, Preparedness

325k – 325kSan Francisco, CAOnsite7+ YOE
Summary

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.

About the role

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.
Skills
Threat modelingRisk analysisAdversarial simulationAI alignmentAI evaluationsBio risk assessmentCyber risk assessmentSystems thinkingTechnical foresightMultidisciplinary risk assessment
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