Research Program Manager – Adversarial Model Research

The role

You will lead initiatives to test the safety and robustness of OpenAI's models through experimentation and evaluation. You will coordinate across research and engineering teams to transform risks into research programs.

What you will do

• Lead programs that explore unexpected model behaviors and identify failure modes.
• Translate vague or emergent risk signals into clear priorities and actionable research plans.
• Design and run creative evaluations, experiments, and red-teaming campaigns.
• Collaborate with research, product, and deployment teams to integrate findings into model training and deployment cycles.
• Develop repeatable systems for tracking model performance and understanding emerging behavior patterns.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience in technical program management.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Familiarity with large language models, prompt engineering, or model evaluation techniques.
• Comfortable managing fast-paced, high-uncertainty projects and shaping them from the ground up.
• Creative and resourceful in devising new methods for testing model behavior and performance.
• Can effectively coordinate across technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.

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.