Applied Risk Standards Specialist
OpenAI · San Francisco
About this role
## About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Global Affairs team builds authentic, collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community to inform and support shared work in public policy and related domains. ## About the Role OpenAI is seeking an **Applied Risk Standards Specialist** to lead standards work for **applied AI risk** in applications, including: - Mental health - Youth safety - Age assurance - Functional efficacy - Reliability - Privacy-related risks In this role, you’ll turn internal research, safety policies, and evaluation methods into **technically sound, measurable, and adaptable standards** that build public trust and support responsible deployment. This position sits within **AI standards and global assurance** in Global Affairs. You’ll work closely with **Safety Systems, Research, Product, Model Policy, Legal, and third-party evaluators** to author proposals, negotiate requirements, and represent OpenAI in priority standards bodies. You’ll also bring emerging requirements back into internal planning before they become established expectations. You will support frontier AI assurance alongside the AI Standards and Global Assurance Lead, including risk-management standards, evaluation/benchmarking requirements, and approaches to independent assessment. > Note: This role connects technical practice with external standards. It does not replace teams responsible for evaluation methods, safety decisions, controls, internal compliance, or implementation. ## What You’ll Do - **Lead the development of applied AI risk standards**, defining and advancing standards for mental health, youth safety, age assurance, efficacy, reliability, and privacy-related risks—especially around evaluations and assessments. - **Translate research and internal policies into credible test methods**: assessment criteria and standards grounded in real system behavior. - **Bring emerging requirements into internal planning** and clarify implications for evaluations, controls, and assurance for products. - Partner with **technical and GRC stakeholders** on assessor competence, independence, conflicts of interest, evidence access, reporting, and the distinction between management-system audits vs. technical evaluations. - **Contribute to drafting and representation** on frontier risk-management and independent-assessment standards. - **Lead assigned standards-body workstreams**, negotiate proposals, and coordinate internal input to reduce external engagement burden on technical experts. - Contribute to relevant **ISO/IEC, INCITS, NIST consortium, and cross-industry** work. - Maintain clear **approvals, negotiating positions, contribution records, and implementation handoffs** so external commitments stay connected to technical owners and available capacity. ## You Might Thrive If You - Have technical depth in **evaluation science**, AI evaluations/red teaming, AI safety, or trust & safety—and can translate that expertise into credible standards or assessment methods. - Have authored or materially shaped standards, evaluation criteria, control frameworks, or normative technical contributions (not just coordinated participation). - Can translate a broad safety objective into a clear requirement and explain what evidence demonstrates it’s met. - Understand differences among **organizational risk-management**, model/system evaluations,
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