Research Program Manager
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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will embed with research teams and help drive technically complex work behind model development, spanning areas like training, reasoning, evaluations, compute, research infrastructure, safety, launch readiness and governance. You will translate evolving research priorities into actionable programs, help teams navigate tradeoffs, and engage directly with research workflows and technical systems. The role is hybrid in San Francisco, three days per week in the office.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in research or technical program management or related roles
- Ability to engage with researchers and engineers on model training, evaluation, safety, data workflows and compute infrastructure
- Comfort working with technical tools and research data
- Track record of moving complex ambiguous initiatives across teams
- Clear communication across technical and nontechnical audiences
Responsibilities
- Embed with research teams and drive complex technical programs
- Translate evolving research priorities into actionable programs
- Help teams navigate technical and operational tradeoffs
- Engage directly with research workflows, experimental results and technical systems
- Keep important work moving as new issues emerge
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
