Research Program Manager, Safety Systems
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 lead programs that develop safeguards or assess frontier risks, shape technical roadmaps, coordinate evaluations and assessments, drive safety readiness and trusted-access programs, triage safeguard gaps, and support safety cases and reports.
Requirements
- 5+ years in technical safety work or owning technical programs
- Experience leading complex research or technical programs in AI, cybersecurity, biosafety or similar fields
- Understanding of frontier AI safety concepts including evaluations, alignment, control and monitoring
- Ability to assess evaluation results and limitations
- Experience across research, engineering and product teams
- Clear communication of complex technical work
Responsibilities
- Shape safety programs and technical roadmaps
- Drive safeguards development and deployment
- Coordinate evaluations and safety assessments
- Drive safety readiness and trusted-access programs
- Triage safeguard gaps, jailbreaks and overflagging and track remediation
- Support safety cases and communicate methods, results and limitations
- Coordinate shared tooling, privacy and security requirements and quality assurance across products
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