Engineering Manager, Frontier AI Safety & Scalable Systems

Showcify, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an engineering manager in San Francisco to lead a team building detection and mitigation systems for frontier model harms. The role focuses on shipping reliable software that operates at billions of users and integrates with research, product, and security to reduce risk at scale.

The position requires strong backend and distributed systems experience, a proven track record of leading engineers, and a calm, collaborative leadership style suitable for navigating ambiguity and

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering production systems end-to-end.
• Strong technical judgment in system design, distributed systems, data pipelines, observability, and reliability.
• Ability to partner cross-functionally with Research/Product/Security to ship systems that reduce risk at scale.
• Background in autonomy or high-scale real-time systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model harms.
• Set the technical roadmap and execution strategy: prioritize, design, ship, iterate, measure impact.
• Build production systems: services, pipelines, tooling, instrumentation, and automation that scale with frontier model usage.
• Partner with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into tests, signals, and mitigations deployed at scale.
• Drive strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence.
• Hire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains as needed.
• Anticipate what breaks at scale as agentic workflows become more capable.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Observability

Backend engineering

Tools

Python

Go

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an engineering manager in San Francisco to lead a team building detection and mitigation systems for frontier model harms. The role focuses on shipping reliable software that operates at billions of users and integrates with research, product, and security to reduce risk at scale.

The position requires strong backend and distributed systems experience, a proven track record of leading engineers, and a calm, collaborative leadership style suitable for navigating ambiguity and