Model Policy Manager, Multimodal Safety
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- USD $266,000 – $335,000 base
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Manager
- Job family
- AI Safety
- Posted
- 3 weeks ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M3, Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Content Policy & Governance is $170k to $260k at a frontier lab. Key skills at this level: owns a policy area end to end, from drafting through enforcement guidance, runs consultation with legal, product and operations without losing the policy intent, and designs enforcement ladders proportionate to harm and to error cost.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · the title reads as M3 · posts $266k to $335k base at a frontier lab.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from OpenAI's posting.
Model policy work for multimodal AI safety inside Safety Systems, covering audio, image, video and omni-modal behavior of OpenAI's models such as GPT-Live and ChatGPT Images, plus multimodal capabilities in frontier models. The Model Policy team defines what safe model behavior looks like and turns it into measurable policy that can be trained and evaluated.
What you'd do
- Write and upkeep the rules governing how models act across audio, image, video and omni-modal output.
- Convert threat models and harm theories into behavior rules, grading guidance, evaluation criteria and safeguards.
- Spot safety regressions and recurring failure patterns, then revise policy where gaps show up.
- Produce training and evaluation inputs such as behavior instructions, human data projects, golden sets and evals.
- Work with AI researchers, domain experts and product teams to make policy into measurable model behavior.
- Inspect model examples and evaluation results to separate policy failures from grader, model or system failures.
What it asks for
- Strong judgment about real-world risks of advanced multimodal AI systems.
- Track record of turning fuzzy safety problems into data-backed rules and testable evaluation standards.
- Hands-on comfort with model data, evaluation results and data quality assessment.
- Strong technical fluency, including using AI tools to speed up policy development and failure analysis.
- Ability to get teams to agree and move forward when the problem space is unclear.
Terms in this role
- Red teaming.
- Testing a system, often an AI model, by deliberately trying to make it fail or misbehave, so problems are found and fixed first.
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About OpenAI
AI and model safety · San Francisco, CA · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2015
AI research company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models.
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