Researcher, Misalignment Monitoring Lead
OpenAI, San Francisco
The role
We are looking for a senior researcher to lead technical work on misalignment monitoring for frontier AI systems. You will develop methods to evaluate the effectiveness of AI monitors, understand their limitations, and improve our ability to detect and stop concerning model behavior reliably.
This role combines research leadership with hands-on technical execution. You will set research priorities, design rigorous evaluations, investigate monitoring failures, and develop approaches for stress-testing and improving monitoring systems. A key focus will be understanding where monitors produce false positives, miss important behaviors, or become less effective as models grow more capable.