Research Program Manager, Frontier Assurance
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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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About the Role
You will build programs that bring independent expertise into frontier AI safety decisions. You will run third-party assessments, manage external research partnerships, translate findings into actionable recommendations, and lead public transparency efforts while working across research, engineering, product, policy and communications.
Requirements
- Understanding of AI evaluations and measurement
- Ability to interpret evaluation findings and communicate limitations and uncertainty
- Experience building research partnerships and managing external stakeholders
- Ability to synthesize technical and social science research into clear summaries
- Experience delivering technical publications or public reports
- Cross-functional experience across product, research and engineering
- Understanding of and interest in frontier AI safety and policy
Responsibilities
- Design and run third-party assessment programs for frontier models and safeguards
- Build and manage strategic research partnerships with third-party evaluators, academic labs and independent experts
- Bring external findings to safety decision-makers and translate them into actionable recommendations
- Partner with research, product, policy and communications teams to explain the evidence behind safety approach
- Lead public transparency programs including system cards and assessment summaries
- Create channels for researchers and civil society to provide feedback
- Own program goals, milestones, dependencies and risks
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices
- Relocation assistance
- Equity
- Performance bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
