OpenAI
Research Program Manager, Safety Systems
$239K–$328K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; experience in technical safety work, owning technical programs, or related roles.
About the job
Leads research and technical programs to develop safeguards, assess frontier AI risks, and inform safe model launches and deployment decisions.
What you'll do
- Shape safety programs and roadmaps; coordinate milestones, dependencies, priorities, and execution across research and engineering.
- Drive safeguard development, deployment, testing, and remediation across models and products.
- Coordinate safety assessments, launch readiness, and trusted-access programs; communicate evidence, limitations, and unresolved risks.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in technical safety work, owning technical programs, or related roles in fast-moving environments.
- Experience leading complex research or technical programs involving researchers and engineers.
- Understanding of frontier AI safety concepts, including capability evaluations, alignment, control, monitoring, and safeguard robustness.
- Ability to assess evaluation evidence and limitations, translate ambiguous questions into programs, and communicate complex technical work clearly.
Pay
$239K – $328K USD base salary
AI focus
Develop and deploy AI safeguards; evaluate and mitigate frontier-model risks, including risks from autonomous and multi-agent systems; support responsible launches and trusted access.
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