Tech Lead Manager, Data Engineering for Trust & Safety

OpenAI; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Technical Lead Manager to lead and grow the Trust & Safety Data Engineering team in San Francisco. This is a hands-on leadership role to set strategy, shape data architecture, align senior stakeholders, and coach engineers to deliver high-impact data systems at scale.

You will turn fragmented launch and incident data into durable, privacy-safe foundations that Trust & Safety teams can rely on to detect risk, investigate abuse, power operational workflows, measure

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in data engineering and leading production data systems at scale.
• Experience in trust, safety, privacy, or adjacent domains.
• Deep technical skills in data architecture, modeling, pipelines, governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing Trust & Safety Data Engineering team.
• Define roadmap and technical strategy for Trust & Safety data systems.
• Build privacy-safe datasets and pipelines for abuse detection, fraud detection, risk signals, enforcement, and safety monitoring.
• Create reusable foundations for Trust & Safety model development, including features, labels, training data, backtesting, evaluation, and production inputs.
• Establish ownership, documentation, data quality standards, monitoring, and operational rigor for critical datasets and workflows.
• Reduce dependence on sensitive raw logs by building structured alternatives with appropriate access controls.
• Partner with Trust & Safety, Product, Policy, Privacy, Data Science, Engineering, and Data Platform on launch readiness, operational systems, and safety measurement.
• Raise the bar for technical judgment, prioritization, communication, and execution in a fast-moving environment.

Skills

Data engineering

Team leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Data architectures

Tools

Spark

Airflow

Job description

OpenAI is hiring a Technical Lead Manager to lead and grow the Trust & Safety Data Engineering team in San Francisco. This is a hands-on leadership role to set strategy, shape data architecture, align senior stakeholders, and coach engineers to deliver high-impact data systems at scale.

You will turn fragmented launch and incident data into durable, privacy-safe foundations that Trust & Safety teams can rely on to detect risk, investigate abuse, power operational workflows, measure