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Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsitemanager$400k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead team building detection and mitigation systems for frontier model misuse.
  • Protect model IP with distillation detection at billions of users scale.
  • Ship services and pipelines tackling emerging risks from autonomous agents.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Software engineering leader who thrives in adversarial, ambiguous spaces and cares about protecting frontier AI. Pragmatic, collaborative builder who earns trust quickly and wants to ship reliable systems that reduce real-world misuse risk.

Requirements

  • Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering production systems end-to-end
  • Strong technical judgment in system design, distributed systems, data pipelines, observability and operational reliability
  • Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments
  • Experience adjacent to security such as abuse prevention, fraud, integrity or platform defense
  • Ability to partner with Research, Product and Security to ship systems that reduce risk at scale
  • Familiarity with model extraction / distillation, adversarial evaluation or scalable detection/mitigation

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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