AI Safety & Safeguards TPM — Lead Safe Deployments

Society for AI Security; San Francisco (CA); Hybride; USD 150 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Program Manager for AI Safety & Safeguards in San Francisco. You will drive cross-functional product, platform, and safety initiatives across ChatGPT, API, enterprise deployments, and related environments.

This role blends technical strategy with execution, turning safety priorities into durable capabilities and measurable outcomes. You will partner with engineers, researchers, and leaders to balance safety with usefulness, oversee deployments, risk management, and

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high-impact technical programs across product, platform, API, infrastructure, machine learning, or safety domains.
• Strong technical judgment across distributed systems, cloud deployments, public or internal APIs, developer platforms, production ML, or scalable product architecture.
• Ability to engage credibly with engineers on system design, implementation tradeoffs, reliability, deployment constraints, and operational risks.
• Experience delivering platforms or developer-facing capabilities and understanding of how technical decisions affect customer and developer experience and product usefulness.
• Understanding of safety, integrity, or abuse-prevention systems including evaluations, guardrails, classifiers, monitoring, enforcement, investigations, and incident response.
• Strong program management discipline with ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and resolve dependencies.
• Clear communication with engineers, executives, policy and legal partners, and external stakeholders.
• Comfort owning high-stakes programs with executive presence and cross-organizational influence.

Responsabilités

• Partner with product, engineering, research, and design to shape technical roadmaps, long-term platform direction, and safeguards priorities across ChatGPT, API, enterprise, and cloud environments.
• Translate product and safety objectives into execution plans balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform evolution and customer needs.
• Lead cross-functional programs end to end—from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, iteration, and operational follow-through.
• Own milestones, dependencies, risk mitigation, decision-making, and accountability across multiple teams.
• Partner with engineers on system architecture, APIs, cloud deployment patterns, platform integrations, and tradeoffs.
• Drive development, integration, or rollout of safeguards such as model evaluations, post-training mitigations, classifiers, abuse detection, and monitoring.
• Coordinate readiness for sensitive deployments, ensuring safety coverage, escalation paths, and alignment with external partners.
• Identify emerging risks; define ownership and response mechanisms across prevention, detection, investigation, enforcement, and improvement.
• Establish meaningful metrics for program delivery, deployment readiness, safety effectiveness, and user experience.
• Represent customer needs in technical and leadership decisions; balance risk, usefulness, and complexity.
• Communicate program health and tradeoffs clearly to engineering teams, partners, and executives.
• Improve delivery and safety outcomes through scalable tooling and data-/AI-assisted workflows.

Description du poste

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Program Manager for AI Safety & Safeguards in San Francisco. You will drive cross-functional product, platform, and safety initiatives across ChatGPT, API, enterprise deployments, and related environments.

This role blends technical strategy with execution, turning safety priorities into durable capabilities and measurable outcomes. You will partner with engineers, researchers, and leaders to balance safety with usefulness, oversee deployments, risk management, and