Technical Program Manager, AI Safety & Safeguards
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labonsite$257k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Drive high-stakes AI safety programs from design through launch and operations.
- Integrate safeguards across ChatGPT, API, enterprise and cloud deployments.
- Prevent violent misuse by improving detection, enforcement and review systems.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
A technically fluent program leader who thrives in ambiguity and owns high-stakes cross-functional delivery. You care deeply about deploying capable AI responsibly while balancing safety, usefulness, and speed.
Requirements
- Strong track record delivering high-impact technical programs across product, platform, API, infrastructure, ML, or safety domains
- Strong technical judgment across distributed systems, cloud deployments, APIs, developer platforms, and production ML
- Able to engage credibly with engineers on system design, tradeoffs, reliability, and operational risks
- Understanding of safety and abuse-prevention systems including evaluations, guardrails, classifiers, monitoring, and enforcement
- Strong program management discipline coordinating multiple workstreams and complex dependencies
- Clear communication with engineering, executives, policy and legal partners, and external stakeholders
- Experience with sensitive deployments, major cloud providers, or serious-harm domains
- remote policy
- Hybrid, 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