Technical Program Manager, AI Safety & Safeguards
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- USD $207,000 – $445,000 base
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- AI Safety
- Posted
- 8 weeks ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Scaled Ops & Moderation is $190k to $260k at a frontier lab. Key skills at this level: forecasts volume and staffs against it with real error bars, owns service levels and can explain a miss without blaming the queue, and governs a vendor relationship on quality, not only on cost per action.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P2 · posts $207k to $445k base at a frontier lab.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from OpenAI's posting.
Technical program management for AI safety and safeguards across ChatGPT, the API, enterprise and cloud deployments. The team turns safety commitments into deployed systems and works to keep the technology from being used to cause serious real-world harm, including violent misuse. Work covers model, infrastructure, product and operational response layers.
What you'd do
- Build and run cross-functional roadmaps for safeguards across ChatGPT, API, enterprise and cloud products.
- Own milestones, dependencies and risk decisions across engineering, integrity, trust and safety, legal, policy and operations.
- Coordinate readiness and escalation paths for sensitive or high-impact model deployments with cloud and enterprise partners.
- Identify emerging misuse and severe-harm risks and define ownership and response across prevention through enforcement.
- Set metrics for deployment readiness, safety effectiveness and operational quality, and report tradeoffs to executives.
What it asks for
- Show a record of running high-impact programs in product, platform, API, infrastructure, ML or safety work.
- Judge technical tradeoffs well across distributed systems, cloud hosting, APIs and production ML.
- Working understanding of safety, abuse-prevention and incident response systems, including evaluations and guardrails.
- Strong program management discipline across multiple workstreams and complex dependencies.
- Background with sensitive launches, large cloud vendors or serious-harm areas like child safety or cybersecurity (preferred).
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About OpenAI

The employer
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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