Senior Technical Advisor, National Security Policy – Global Affairs
Job in
California, Moniteau County, Missouri, 65018, USA
Listed on 2026-07-20
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Jobtailor
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-20
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, AI Business & Operations, Information Security, AI Evaluation
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Serve as a senior technical-policy advisor to the National Security Policy team on frontier AI safety and governance issues, including CBRN, cyber, autonomous agents, automated AI R&D, evaluations, risk thresholds, and societal resilience.
- Act as a cross-functional connector between National Security Policy and internal teams including Safety Systems, Preparedness, Alignment, Research, Security, Legal, and Product Policy.
- Drive OpenAI’s engagement with national AI institutes, the Frontier Model Forum, third-party evaluators, research organizations, and other technical governance bodies.
- Develop proactive policy strategies that help governments and other institutions prepare for and react to increasingly capable AI systems, including responsible national security adoption, defensive acceleration, democratic oversight, and societal resilience.
- Represent OpenAI externally with sound judgment, integrity, and credibility in sensitive engagements with policymakers, technical experts, civil society, and national security stakeholders.
- Translate technical realities into clear policy products, including memos, briefs, talking points, government responses, strategy documents, and internal decision materials.
- Build and sustain trusted relationships with AI safety researchers, technical policy experts, think tanks, standards bodies, civil society organizations, and current or former government officials.
- Help OpenAI identify emerging technical-policy opportunities, pressure-test novel ideas, and determine which initiatives are most important to advance the mission.
- 5+ years of experience in frontier AI policy, AI safety, technical AI governance, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated credibility in the AI safety or frontier AI governance fields.
- Familiarity with frontier AI risk management issues, including areas such as risk taxonomies, evaluations, model access, CBRN, cyber, recursive self-improvement, and AI safety standards.
- Experience working with senior internal or external stakeholders on sensitive policy or technology issues.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical and policy concepts to diverse audiences.
- Sound judgment, outstanding personal integrity, and the ability to represent OpenAI responsibly in high-trust external settings.
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and project management skills.
- Track record of effectively working with cross-functional teams and aligning a diverse range of internal and external partners.
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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