Hiring: Red Team Specialist - Cyber Company: OpenAI Location: Washington, DC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:39:12 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AI, Penetration Testing About the job Required Skills: •As a Red Team Specialist focused on cyber, you will help answer two practical questions: What cyber capabilities can our models provide to real-world attackers, and do our safeguards remain effective when those attackers use increasingly sophisticated techniques? •Most of your work will focus on model cyber capabilities and safeguards; you will also spend a portion of your time testing novel abuse risks in agentic systems. •This role is located in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. •In This Role, You Will •Design and run rigorous evaluations of model cyber capabilities and safeguards, including policy adherence, correct refusal, over refusal, and resilience to jailbreaking and other adversarial techniques. •Conduct hands-on testing to understand what models can enable when used by experienced security practitioners, including through task-specific harnesses, scaffolding, and multi-step workflows. •Distinguish benchmark or policy failures from behavior that creates meaningful real-world risk, considering feasibility, attacker uplift, reliability, and the capabilities already available elsewhere. •Build and improve automated testing infrastructure that supports repeatable measurement, rapid iteration, and statistically grounded analysis across models and product surfaces. Compensation: •$198,000 - $320,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!