Overview
- CEO Sam Altman announced the opening and cautioned the job will be stressful with an immediate ramp into high‑stakes work.
- The position pays $555,000 plus equity, is based in San Francisco, and sits within the company’s Safety Systems team.
- The hire will lead OpenAI’s Preparedness framework by building capability evaluations, threat models, and operational mitigations for frontier models.
- Priority risk areas include impacts on mental health, AI‑enabled cybersecurity threats, biological capabilities, and guardrails for self‑improving systems.
- The move follows leadership turnover in preparedness and intensified public scrutiny, including wrongful‑death lawsuits linked to ChatGPT use.