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Engineering Manager, Preparedness

OpenAI · San Francisco

Frontier labremotemanager$445k–$510k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build safeguards detecting and preventing harmful misuse of frontier AI models.
  • Ship detection pipelines and mitigations protecting frontier model integrity.
  • Operate production services at billions-user scale for advanced capabilities.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Builder-minded engineering leader who thrives in ambiguity and adversarial, fast-evolving environments. Cares about safely enabling frontier capabilities while reducing high-severity misuse risk at scale.

Requirements

  • Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments
  • Thrive in high-context environments and comfortable with ambiguity and novelty
  • Communicate clearly and build trust quickly with senior stakeholders
  • Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering production systems end-to-end
  • Strong technical judgment in system design, distributed systems, data pipelines and operational reliability
  • Ability to partner with Research/Product/Security to ship systems that reduce risk at scale
remote policy
3 days in office per week

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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