Description
TLM, Machine Learning, Integrity
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Applied AI
Compensation
- $347K – $490K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
- 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.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the team
The Applied team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. Our team launched ChatGPT, Advanced Voice Mode, Deep Research, and many other products, supporting scalable infrastructure and driving safe, responsible deployment. Our customers rely on our APIs to build transformative products, while we ensure responsible usage and platform integrity.
The Integrity team, within Applied Engineering, safeguards our platform by proactively identifying misuse, preventing abuse, and protecting users. We're seeking an experienced, hands-on Engineering Manager (Web Safety) to shape the future direction, architect advanced system protections, and lead a focused team of senior Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs).
In this role, you will:
- Architect and build next-generation system protections, directly contributing through hands-on design, model training, and deployment strategies.
- Lead and manage a small, senior team of Machine Learning Engineers, empowering them with clear direction and autonomy.
- Collaborate closely with Research, Safety, Product, and Policy teams to leverage existing tools and drive cutting-edge advancements.
- Utilize state-of-the-art models to detect and prevent problematic content effectively.
- Establish robust evaluation frameworks and metrics, clearly measuring progress and identifying areas for improvement.
- Support your team's professional growth and maintain high performance through mentorship and clear career progression.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Bring extensive hands-on experience managing machine learning teams, ideally in web safety, content integrity, or related domains.
- Have successfully trained, fine-tuned, or distilled LLMs and traditional ML models to solve real-world business problems.
- Enjoy being deeply involved technically—actively designing solutions, training models, and guiding deployment processes alongside your team.
- Excel at collaborating across teams to integrate existing tools and thoughtfully architect new solutions.
- Possess strong emotional intelligence, empathy, and the ability to effectively connect with colleagues.
- Embrace ambiguity and rapidly changing circumstances as opportunities to create clarity, structure, and impactful solutions.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.