# Model Policy Manager, National Security

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $266K - $335K
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

The base pay for this role is $266K – $335K, with additional compensation including equity, performance-related bonuses, and benefits.

Benefits include:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)

- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

## About the Team

The Safety Systems team manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring they are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. The Model Policy team works to ensure that frontier models behave safely and reliably in real-world environments by designing policies that define safe model behavior.

## About the Role

We’re hiring a Model Policy Manager to shape model behavior for U.S. government use, with a focus on national security applications. You’ll define nuanced policies and translate them into training and evaluation criteria, helping models navigate high-stakes scenarios while preserving their usefulness and capabilities.

## Responsibilities

- Develop model policies that guide safe and useful behavior

- Build evaluations, identify policy gaps and model failures, and use findings to improve policies and training

- Work with research, engineering, and domain experts to support safe, reliable deployment

## Requirements

- Relevant experience in AI safety, policy, or risk assessment

- Strong judgment and ability to turn complex safety questions into clear, practical policies

- Technical fluency to work hands-on with model data and evaluations

- Motivation by OpenAI’s mission and the responsible use of AI in safety-critical settings

- Active TS/SCI clearance or equivalent

## Skills

### Required
- AI safety
- policy
- risk assessment
- model data analysis

### Nice to have
- TS/SCI clearance

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