Research Program Manager – Adversarial Model Research
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead initiatives that test the safety and robustness of models through creative experimentation and structured evaluation. You will turn ambiguous risk signals into concrete research programs, run evaluations and red-teaming campaigns, and collaborate with research, product and deployment teams. The role is hybrid in San Francisco, three days a week in the office.
Requirements
- Strong experience in technical program management with excellent organizational and communication skills
- Familiarity with large language models, prompt engineering or model evaluation techniques
- Comfort managing fast-paced high-uncertainty projects
- Ability to coordinate across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Lead programs that explore unexpected model behaviors and identify failure modes
- Translate vague risk signals into clear priorities and actionable research plans
- Design and run creative evaluations, experiments and red-teaming campaigns
- Collaborate with research, product and deployment teams to integrate findings into training and deployment cycles
- Develop repeatable systems for tracking model performance and emerging behavior patterns
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents) plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures, plus paid sick time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Equity and performance-related bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
