Engineering Manager - Frontier AI Safety Systems

Openai; United States; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 350,000; 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 AI model harms. The role focuses on production services and scalable pipelines that protect frontier model integrity.

The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering foundation, practical system design judgment, and experience delivering end-to-end production systems at scale. Hybrid work and relocation assistance are offered.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering production systems end-to-end.
• Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments is a plus.
• Strong technical judgment in system design, distributed systems, data pipelines, observability, and operational reliability.

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 deeply with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into concrete tests, signals, and mitigations that can be 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

Engineering leadership

Production systems

Detection pipelines

Mitigation systems

Backend systems

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an engineering manager in San Francisco to lead a team building detection and mitigation systems for frontier AI model harms. The role focuses on production services and scalable pipelines that protect frontier model integrity.

The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering foundation, practical system design judgment, and experience delivering end-to-end production systems at scale. Hybrid work and relocation assistance are offered.