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Engineering Manager, Preparedness

OpenAI· Safety Systems
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$445k - $510kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Engineering manager leading a team building software systems to detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models, shipping production services, detection pipelines, and mitigation mechanisms at scale.

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.

Qualifications

  • Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments
  • Thrive in high context environments
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and novelty
  • Communicate clearly and build trust quickly with senior stakeholders—pragmatic, collaborative, and calm under scrutiny.
  • Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering production systems end-to-end.
  • Strong technical judgment in system design, distributed systems, data pipelines, observability, and operational reliability.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally with Research/Product/Security to ship systems that materially reduce risk or abuse at scale.
  • Background in autonomy, high-scale real-time systems, or intelligence-adjacent technical domains is a plus.

Skills

Required:Team leadership and people managementSystem design and architectureCross-functional collaboration

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
  • 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.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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