Technical Program Manager, AI Safety & Safeguards

What you'll do

• Turn safety and product priorities into roadmaps and execution plans, and lead programs from design through launch and ongoing operations.
• Coordinate safeguards development, deployment readiness, risk response, and operational controls across technical and partner teams.
• Track program outcomes and communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs to teams and executives.

What they ask for

• Track record of delivering high-impact technical programs across product, platform, API, infrastructure, machine learning, or safety domains.
• Technical judgment across distributed systems, cloud deployments, APIs, developer platforms, production machine learning, or scalable product architecture.
• Ability to engage with engineers on system design, implementation tradeoffs, reliability, deployment constraints, and operational risks.
• Program management, product judgment, and communication skills to coordinate complex work and balance user needs, usefulness, safety, and technical complexity.

Nice to have

• Experience with sensitive deployments or major cloud providers.
• Experience in serious-harm domains such as violent misuse, child safety, cybersecurity, or other emerging threats.

Pay

$207K – $445K USD base salary

Tools

ChatGPT, API, cloud, distributed systems, public or internal APIs, production machine learning, classifiers

AI focus

Develops and rolls out safeguards for AI systems, including model evaluations, post-training mitigations, abuse detection, monitoring, enforcement, and AI-assisted workflows.