Description
Compensation
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $445K – $510K, and total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
Benefits include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
About the Team
The Preparedness Engineering team is responsible for building and operating safeguards for frontier model risks, to safely enable advanced capabilities while detecting and limiting harm.
About the Role
We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models,before incidents occur. This is a builder’s role: you’ll lead engineers shipping production services, detection pipelines, and mitigation mechanisms that protect frontier model integrity and reduce high-severity misuse risk.
While this work intersects with frontier model development, security and risk, we’re explicitly seeking someone with a software engineering foundation who is comfortable building reliable systems that can operate at billions of users scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model harms.
- Set the technical roadmap and execution strategy: prioritize, design, ship, iterate, measure impact.
- Build production systems: services, pipelines, tooling, instrumentation, and automation that scale with frontier model usage.
- Partner deeply with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into concrete tests, signals, and mitigations that can be deployed at scale.
- Drive strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence.
- Hire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains as needed.
- Anticipate what breaks at scale as agentic workflows become more capable.
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.
- Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally with Research/Product/Security to ship systems that materially reduce risk or abuse at scale.
- Background in autonomy, high-scale real-time systems, or intelligence-adjacent technical domains is a plus.
Nice to Have
- Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments
- Thrive in high context environments
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and novelty
- Communicate clearly and build trust quickly with senior stakeholders,pragmatic, collaborative, and calm under scrutiny.