Research Program Manager, Frontier Assurance

The role

You will build programs that bring independent expertise into frontier AI safety decisions and make the evidence behind those decisions understandable to the public. You will lead external research partnerships, third-party assessments, and coordinate public safety documentation.

What you will do

• Design and run third-party assessment programs for frontier models and safeguards.
• Build and manage strategic research partnerships with third-party evaluators, academic labs, and independent experts.
• Bring external findings to safety decision-makers and translate them into actionable recommendations.
• Partner with research, product, policy, and communications teams to explain the evidence behind OpenAI’s safety approach.
• Lead public transparency programs, including system cards and summaries of third-party assessments.
• Create channels for researchers and civil society to provide feedback and inform future assessments.
• Own program goals, milestones, dependencies, and risks across assessment and transparency work.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience in research partnerships and program management with technical and research teams.
• Understanding of AI evaluations and measurement.
• Experience building research partnerships and managing external stakeholders.
• Experience delivering technical publications or public reports across multiple contributors.
• Experience working cross-functionally across product, research, and engineering teams.
• Understanding of and interest in frontier AI safety and policy.

Nice to have

• Can interpret evaluation findings and communicate what they do and do not establish.
• Can synthesize technical and social science research into clear executive summaries and accessible explanations.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.