Research Program Manager, Safety Systems

Job description

About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models. We work across research, engineering, product, and policy to understand risks, develop and validate safeguards, and support responsible deployment. Our work spans safeguards research and deployment, safety assessments, launch readiness, and trusted-access programs for advanced capabilities. We address risks including biological and cyber misuse and misalignment, with programs that strengthen safety across models and products. About the Role We’re hiring Research Program Managers across AI Safeguards and Frontier Risks Safety. You’ll lead programs that develop and improve the safeguards used across our models and products, or assess and mitigate risks associated with frontier capabilities, launches, and trusted-access programs. You will partner with researchers, engineers, and other stakeholders to turn open safety questions into clear programs of work. You’ll shape technical roadmaps, coordinate execution, and use evidence to guide priorities and inform development and deployment decisions. We’re looking for people who combine strong technical judgment, experience managing complex research programs, and a commitment to AI safety. These roles are based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Shape safety programs and technical roadmaps. Partner with research and engineering leads to define goals, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria. Prioritize intake and emerging findings, resolve blockers, and balance immediate safety needs with longer-term research and platform investments. Drive safeguards development and deployment. Translate safety research into safeguards across models and products. Maintain an end-to-end view of safeguard coverage, effectiveness, and opportunities for improvement for one or more risk areas, and drive a roadmap that advances across launches. Coordinate evaluations and safety assessments. Organize capability evaluations, alignment and control assessments, adversarial testing, and safeguard stress-testing, including risks from autonomous and multi-agent systems. Support embedded assessments throughout model development, internal use, and deployment. Drive safety readiness and trusted-access programs. Coord…