Technical Program Manager, Safety Systems Engineering

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About the Team

The Safety Systems team is in need of a Technical Program Manager to streamline our full safety stack and integration of various safety research and mitigations into ChatGPT and our API. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of our new models, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders — ranging across research, product, engineering, legal, and policy — and ensuring all the risks are effectively and properly monitored, mitigated, or resolved.

About the Role

As a Safety Engineering TPM, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety engineering progress and risk tables to overseeing critical data infrastructure programs, acting as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of OpenAI’s safety system. Additionally, you will create and execute a compute roadmap for your team to ensure that our top priorities are resourced while taking advantage of new opportunities to make key safety infrastructure investments. Your primary focus will be to build a foundational layer to support the safety of all of our models and products.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Manage key risk areas and corresponding stakeholders.
• Work directly with safety engineers, engineering managers, and product managers to build common safety infrastructure.
• Manage data and compute infrastructure, including data residency and capacity planning.
• Design and run key internal programs, including incident management and processes for regularly updating our safety mitigations.
• Prioritize and manage a portfolio of infrastructure requests from other internal teams.

Requirements

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science or computer engineering, or a demonstrated track record of engineering expertise.
• Extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex technical projects against tight deadlines.
• Technically adept, with experience partnering with engineering and fundamental research teams.
• Experience designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and be relentlessly resourceful.
• Strong knowledge of content integrity and moderation, including industry best practices and regulatory guidelines.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Care about AGI safety.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and provide background checks consistent with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Salary range: $207K – $335K (base pay varies depending on location, skills, and experience). Total compensation includes equity and potential performance-related bonuses.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts (Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA) and commuter benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave.
• Flexible PTO / paid time off policies and paid company holidays/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 as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees and additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., donation matching, wellness stipends).