Safety Transparency Editor, Safety Systems

Details

Safety Systems works to ensure OpenAI’s most capable models can be developed and deployed responsibly. The Trustworthy AI team is growing its safety transparency function: a practice focused on helping external audiences understand OpenAI’s technical safety work with clarity, rigor, and continuity. This includes system cards, the Deployment Safety Hub, safety-related blogs, public governance documents, and other outputs that communicate technical safety topics. The role also involves building AI-assisted workflows, data visualizations, and interactive tools to make complex technical work more legible over time.

Responsibilities

• Own the editorial quality of key safety transparency artifacts and systems (system cards, Deployment Safety Hub content, technical explainers, governance documents, blogs).
• Serve as the narrative DRI for system cards and related transparency artifacts from initiation through publication.
• Partner closely with Safety Programs, researchers, evaluators, red-teamers, policy experts, legal partners, product marketing and communications teams, and other launch stakeholders to translate technical findings into public-facing materials.
• Write clear, precise explanations of highly technical safety topics for external audiences without sacrificing rigor or nuance.
• Shape editorial structure and narrative arcs, exercise judgment about necessary context and caveats, and determine where supporting evidence is needed.
• Improve repeatable editorial processes, templates, and publication workflows.
• Use AI tools to accelerate drafting, synthesize source materials, identify precedents, prepare reviewer packets, and improve consistency across artifacts.
• Build systems and workflows that make transparency efforts faster, more scalable, and more effective over time.
• Support blogs, governance documents, technical explainers, and other technical safety communications when needed.
• Help evolve the Deployment Safety Hub and related transparency surfaces over time.

Example projects

• Drive the narrative, framing, and technical writing and editing for a system card supporting a major model launch.
• Translate novel evaluation methodologies, preparedness frameworks, and mitigation approaches into explanations accessible to policymakers, journalists, researchers, and external experts.
• Build an AI-assisted workflow that improves consistency, quality, and efficiency of the safety transparency practice.
• Help shape the evolution of the Deployment Safety Hub as a trusted destination for understanding OpenAI’s technical safety work.

Requirements / Skills & Qualifications

• Exceptional writing and editorial skills: ability to make highly technical topics understandable without sacrificing precision and nuance.
• Strong editorial judgment: identify narrative threads in complex and ambiguous material, surface salient details, and communicate uncertainty responsibly.
• Experience synthesizing diverse technical inputs into structured, publication-ready artifacts.
• Comfortable learning unfamiliar technical domains quickly and developing fluency in frontier AI safety concepts.
• Deeply AI-native in how you work: use AI tools not just for drafting but to automate, systematize, and improve editorial processes.
• Experience collaborating with researchers, evaluators, red-teamers, policy, legal, product, and communications partners to produce accurate public-facing materials.
• Strong execution instincts and ownership over complex projects from start to finish.

Benefits & Compensation

• Salary range: $284,000 – $315,000 (base). Offers equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave.
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees; paid time off policies for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays and multiple coordinated company office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend; daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company emphasizes safety, rigorous evaluation, and a commitment to diverse perspectives. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.