Multimodal Safety Policy Lead

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 266,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Model Policy Manager to focus on the safety of multimodal models, shaping how OpenAI identifies, evaluates, and addresses risks in multimodal AI models such as GPT-Live and ChatGPT Images. The role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and relocation assistance for new employees.

You will design model policies for audio, image, video, and omni-modal behavior, translate harm theories into actionable safety policies, and

Qualifications

• Strong judgment about real-world risks of multimodal AI systems.
• Ability to turn ambiguous safety questions into clear data-driven policies.
• Experience turning policy into measurable evaluation criteria.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain model policies for audio, image, video, and omni-modal behavior.
• Translate theories of harm and threat models into behavioral safety policies, evaluation criteria, grading guidance, and safeguards.
• Identify and analyze safety regressions and failure patterns to identify gaps in existing policies and inform policy iteration.
• Develop policy artifacts that support model training, evaluation, and deployment, including behavior instructions, human-data campaigns, golden sets, and evaluations.
• Partner with AI researchers, domain experts, and product teams to operationalize policy into measurable model behavior.

Job description

OpenAI is hiring a Model Policy Manager to focus on the safety of multimodal models, shaping how OpenAI identifies, evaluates, and addresses risks in multimodal AI models such as GPT-Live and ChatGPT Images. The role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and relocation assistance for new employees.

You will design model policies for audio, image, video, and omni-modal behavior, translate harm theories into actionable safety policies, and