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 position is $257K – $445K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses 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.
About the Team
The Strategic Initiatives & Operations team is in need of a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to streamline processes, including full safety governance and integration of various safety research and mitigations into ChatGPT, API, and frontier models. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of new models, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders, and ensuring all risks are effectively monitored, mitigated, or resolved.
About the Role
As a TPM, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety research progress and risk tables to overseeing the quality of human data campaigns. You will act as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of OpenAI's safety system. Additionally, you will create and execute a compute roadmap for your team to ensure that top priorities are resourced while taking advantage of new opportunities to make key safety research discoveries. Your primary focus will be to ensure models are qualified for safe deployment.
Responsibilities
- Manage key risk areas and corresponding stakeholders.
- Keep track of existing and future mitigations for every major product and model deployment.
- Standardize the lifecycle of risk assessment, setting safety bars, consolidating inputs from multiple stakeholders across research, product, engineering, legal, and policy, pre-launch safety reviews, and post-launch follow-up.
- Manage pre-launch safety reviews.
- Share launch calendars and key safety practices and evaluations with partners, such as Microsoft.
- Develop comprehensive documentation for all safety work, including metrics, evaluations, and progress tracking across multiple teams within OpenAI.
- Help publish and open-source safety learnings, standards, datasets, and benchmarks with the public.
Requirements
- Possess an advanced degree in a hard science, with a PhD being advantageous, or a demonstrated track record of engineering expertise.
- Have an extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex technical projects against tight deadlines.
- Be technically adept and have effectively partnered with engineering and fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.
- Expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.
- Be relentlessly resourceful and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
- Strong knowledge of content integrity and moderation, including industry best practices and regulatory guidelines.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Care about AGI safety.