Technical Program Manager, AI

Technical Program Manager, Trustworthy AI About The Team

The Trustworthy AI team is investing in external assurances to build out a robust safety ecosystem. This includes enabling third party assessments for OpenAI’s flagship launches, piloting new assurance mechanisms like safety compliance reviews, and incorporating independent expert input as evidence for critical safety decisions. This role requires a blend of partnership management, cross functional coordination, an understanding of AI safety research and evaluations, and strong communication skills to synthesize findings and translate into decision relevant actions.

As a Technical Program Manager on the Trustworthy AI team, you will drive interdisciplinary programs in collaboration with external partners. This includes strategizing and executing on the vision for strategic research partnerships, and growing and managing our external assurance programs which include third party assessments and enabling independent academic research. We’re looking for people who have experience running strategic academic collaborations and program management with technical and research teams.

You will work with researchers/engineers both internal to OpenAI and as a part of the external community to initiate new projects, set ambitious goals and milestones, and drive execution across multiple teams. This role is 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.

• Create strategic research partnerships
• Proactively identify new partners for external assurances such as high quality third party evaluators and academic research labs
• Create feedback mechanisms for translating external research into actionable product and policy recommendations
• Communicate progress, status and risk effectively to stakeholders internally and externally
• Drive tool and process improvements to improve efficiency

• Have an understanding of AI evaluations and measurements and ability to engage with technical teams on AI evaluations
• Have experience working with and managing stakeholders external to an organization, especially academic researchers
• Can create executive summaries and synthesis of technical and social science research
• Have worked cross functionally across product, research, and engineering teams
• Have an understanding and interest in frontier AI safety and policy

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage;

return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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