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Technical Program Manager, AI Safety & Safeguards

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labonsite$257k–$445k
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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
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