Lead Safety Engineer, Robotics

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead Robotics Safety Engineer responsible for defining and leading product safety strategy for robotic systems across the development lifecycle, ensuring safety is integrated from earliest stages through deployment.
• Monitor and influence emerging regulatory frameworks, industry standards, and policy developments relevant to robotics and autonomous systems while partnering with engineering teams to translate safety requirements into product architecture and design decisions.
• Work within OpenAI's Robotics team focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings by integrating cutting-edge hardware and software across the model stack.
• Develop expertise in robotics safety standards, regulatory frameworks, and safety engineering practices while helping establish long-term safety strategy for products and organization, with opportunity to build and scale the safety engineering function as the robotics organization grows.

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge robotics and AGI-level intelligence research
• Collaboration with leadership, engineering, research, legal, and policy teams
• In-office work arrangement (4 days per week in San Francisco)
• Equal opportunity employer with commitment to diversity and inclusion
• Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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