Description
Job Summary
We are seeking a Research Program Manager, Safety Systems to join our team at OpenAI. You will lead programs that develop and improve the safeguards used across our models and products, or assess and mitigate risks associated with frontier capabilities, launches, and trusted-access programs. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and offers a salary range of $239K - $328K.
Responsibilities
- Shape safety programs and technical roadmaps, partnering with research and engineering leads to define goals, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria.
- Drive safeguards development and deployment, translating safety research into safeguards across models and products.
- Coordinate evaluations and safety assessments, organizing capability evaluations, alignment and control assessments, adversarial testing, and safeguard stress-testing.
- Drive safety readiness and trusted-access programs, coordinating safety requirements and execution across frontier model launches and deployments.
- Turn findings into improvements, triaging safeguard gaps, jailbreaks, and overflagging with accountable teams.
- Strengthen the evidence behind safety decisions, supporting safety cases that connect claims to evaluations, safeguards, assumptions, and remaining uncertainty.
- Build programs that scale across products, coordinating shared tooling and feedback workflows, privacy and security requirements, and safeguard user experience and quality assurance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in technical safety work, owning technical programs, or related roles in fast-moving environments.
- Experience leading complex research or technical programs involving researchers and engineers, particularly in AI, cybersecurity, biosafety, or another field where failures can have serious consequences.
- Understanding of frontier AI safety concepts, including capability evaluations, alignment, control, monitoring, and safeguard robustness.
- Ability to assess what evaluation results do and do not establish, including methodological limitations, uncertainty, and the difference between model capability and real-world risk.
- Strong technical judgment, experience managing complex research programs, and a commitment to AI safety.
Benefits
While not explicitly listed, OpenAI offers relocation assistance to new employees and uses a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
Company Culture
OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. We are dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.