Safety Transparency Editor, Safety Systems

About the Team

Safety Systems ensures OpenAI’s most capable models can be developed and deployed responsibly. The Trustworthy AI team focuses on safety transparency, creating public artifacts such as system cards, the Deployment Safety Hub, blogs, governance documents, and other outputs that communicate technical safety topics to external audiences.

The Safety Transparency Editor owns the editorial quality of key safety transparency artifacts and systems, transforming complex technical safety topics into clear, public-facing materials while building AI‑enabled workflows to scale and improve the practice.

• Serve as the narrative DRI for system cards and related transparency artifacts from initiation through publication.
• Partner with Safety Programs, researchers, evaluators, red‑teamers, policy experts, legal teams, communications partners, and launch teams 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 the editorial structure and narrative arc of transparency artifacts, ensuring they accurately communicate what OpenAI has done, why it matters, and where uncertainty remains.
• Exercise strong editorial judgment to determine what context is necessary, what caveats should be highlighted, and where additional explanation or supporting evidence may be needed to strengthen public understanding.
• 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.

• 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 our safety transparency practice.
• Help shape the evolution of the Deployment Safety Hub as a trusted destination for understanding OpenAI’s technical safety work.

• Are an exceptional writer and editor who can make highly technical topics understandable without sacrificing precision.
• Have strong editorial judgment and know how to identify the narrative thread in complex, ambiguous material, surfacing what details matter, what context is needed, and how to communicate uncertainty responsibly.
• Have strong execution instincts and enjoy owning complex projects from start to finish.
• Can synthesize diverse inputs into structured, publication‑ready artifacts.
• Can earn trust and work in close partnership with technical experts to make their work accessible without oversimplifying it.
• Are deeply AI‑native in how you work, and instinctively look for opportunities to automate, systematize, and improve editorial processes.
• Care deeply about rigor, intellectual honesty, and earning trust through accuracy.
• Have the confidence to use your voice and judgment while remaining humble, evidence‑driven, and open to feedback.
• Enjoy learning unfamiliar technical domains quickly and developing fluency in frontier AI safety concepts.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.