OpenAI
Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform
$400K–$445K
San Francisco · Manager · Full-time · Posted May 20, 2026
About the job
Leads an engineering team building and operating systems that detect and mitigate harmful misuse of frontier AI models, including model distillation and emerging risks from autonomous agents.
What you'll do
- Set the technical roadmap and lead delivery of production detection and mitigation services, pipelines, tooling, and automation.
- Partner with Research, Product, and Security to develop and deploy tests, signals, and mitigations; measure their impact.
- Build and grow the engineering team while driving reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence.
What they ask for
- Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering production systems end-to-end.
- Strong technical judgment in system design, distributed systems, data pipelines, observability, and operational reliability.
- Demonstrated cross-functional partnership to ship systems that reduce risk or abuse at scale.
- Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with model extraction or distillation, adversarial evaluation, or scalable detection and mitigation approaches.
- Background in autonomy, high-scale real-time systems, or intelligence-adjacent technical domains.
Pay
$400K – $445K USD base salary
AI focus
Builds systems to detect and mitigate frontier-model misuse, protect model IP, detect distillation, and address risks from autonomous agents.
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