Technical Program Manager, AI Safety & Safeguards
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Projects
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will drive complex product, platform and safety initiatives across ChatGPT, API, enterprise and cloud environments. You'll turn safety and product priorities into execution plans, partner with engineers, researchers and operational teams, and communicate tradeoffs to senior leadership. You will drive safeguards such as evaluations, classifiers, abuse detection and enforcement workflows, and coordinate readiness for sensitive deployments.
Requirements
- Track record delivering high-impact technical programs across product, platform, API, infrastructure, ML or safety domains
- Strong technical judgment across distributed systems, cloud deployments, APIs and production machine learning
- Understanding of safety, integrity or abuse-prevention systems
- Strong program management discipline
- Clear communication with engineers, executives, policy and legal partners
- Comfortable owning high-stakes programs with executive presence
Responsibilities
- Partner with product, engineering, research and design to shape technical roadmaps and safeguards priorities
- Translate product and safety objectives into execution plans
- Lead cross-functional programs end to end
- Own milestones, dependencies, risk mitigation and accountability
- Partner with engineers on system architecture, APIs and technical tradeoffs
- Drive development and rollout of safeguards such as evaluations, classifiers, abuse detection, monitoring and enforcement workflows
- Coordinate readiness for sensitive or high-impact deployments
- Identify emerging misuse and severe-harm risks and define ownership and response mechanisms
- Establish metrics for program delivery, readiness and safety effectiveness
- Communicate program health, risks and tradeoffs to engineers and executives
- Improve delivery through scalable tooling and data- or AI-assisted workflows
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
