Research Program Manager

The role

You will embed with research teams to drive technical work behind model development. You will translate research priorities into actionable programs and engage directly with research workflows, experimental results, and technical systems.

What you will do

• Translate evolving research priorities into actionable programs
• Help teams navigate technical and operational tradeoffs
• Keep important work moving as new issues emerge
• Engage directly with research workflows, experimental results, technical systems, and engineering constraints
• Move complex, ambiguous technical initiatives forward across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Introduce structure without creating unnecessary processes
• Recognize when evidence, evaluation results, or execution plans need closer scrutiny
• Communicate clearly across technical and nontechnical audiences

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in research program management, technical program management, or related roles in fast-moving environments
• Ability to engage substantively with researchers and engineers on topics such as model training, experimental design, model safety, evaluation methods, data workflows, compute infrastructure, or distr
• Comfort working directly with technical tools, research data, experimental results, or operational workflows
• Track record of moving complex, ambiguous technical initiatives forward across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Ability to distinguish what is known from what is uncertain and ask incisive technical questions
• Ability to introduce structure without creating unnecessary processes
• Ability to communicate clearly across technical and nontechnical audiences
• Ability to take ownership and adapt quickly as priorities change

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.