Technical Program Manager, Safety Systems Engineering · OpenAI

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:23:50 GMT
Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco · $207K – $335K · hybrid

Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

401(k) retirement plan with employer match

Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

Mental health and wellness support

Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

Relocation support for eligible employees

Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

About the Team

The Safety Systems team is in need of a Technical Program Manager to streamline our full safety stack and integration of various safety research and mitigations into ChatGPT and our API. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of our new models, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders , ranging across research, product, engineering, legal, and policy , and ensuring all the risks are effectively and properly monitored, mitigated, or resolved.

About the Role

As a Safety Engineering TPM, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety engineering progress and risk tables to overseeing critical data infrastructure programs, acting as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of OpenAI’s safety system. Additionally, you will create and execute a compute roadmap for your team to ensure that our top priorities are resourced while taking advantage of new opportunities to make key safety infrastructure investments. Your primary focus will be to build a foundational layer to support the safety of all of our models and products.

Responsibilities

Manage key risk areas and corresponding stakeholders.

Work directly with safety engineers, engineering managers, and product managers to build common safety infrastructure.

Manage data and compute infrastructure, including data residency and capacity planning.

Design and run key internal programs, including incident management and processes for regularly updating our safety mitigations.

Prioritize and manage a portfolio of infrastructure requests from other internal teams.

Requirements

Have an undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science or computer engineering, or a demonstrated track record of engineering expertise.

Have an extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex technical projects against tight deadlines.

Are technically adept, and have effectively partnered with engineering and fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.

Have expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.

Are relentlessly resourceful and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

Have strong knowledge of content integrity and moderation, including industry best practices and regulatory guidelines.

Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Care about AGI safety.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.