OpenAI
Research Program Manager
$239K–$328K
San Francisco · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; research program management, technical program management, or related roles in fast-moving environments.
About the job
Embed with research teams to turn evolving AI research priorities into coordinated technical programs spanning model development, safety, infrastructure, and launch readiness.
What you'll do
- Translate research priorities into actionable programs and navigate technical and operational tradeoffs.
- Engage directly with research workflows, experimental results, technical systems, and engineering constraints.
- Move complex, ambiguous technical initiatives forward across teams and stakeholders.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in research program management, technical program management, or related roles in fast-moving environments.
- Ability to engage substantively with researchers and engineers on technical topics such as model training, safety, evaluations, data workflows, compute infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- Experience moving complex, ambiguous technical initiatives forward across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Comfort working directly with technical tools, research data, experimental results, or operational workflows.
Pay
$239K – $328K (base salary)
AI focus
Supports AI model development research, including training, reasoning, evaluations, safety, research infrastructure, model launch readiness, and governance.
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