Engineering Manager, Preparedness

The role

You will lead a team of software engineers building detection and mitigation systems for frontier model harms. You will build production services, pipelines, and tooling that scale with frontier model usage.

What you will do

• Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model harms.
• Set the technical roadmap and execution strategy.
• Build production systems including services, pipelines, tooling, instrumentation, and automation.
• Partner with Research and Product to translate model capabilities into tests, signals, and mitigations.
• Drive engineering fundamentals in architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence.
• Hire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains.
• Anticipate what breaks at scale as agentic workflows become more capable.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering production systems end-to-end.
• Strong technical judgment in system design, distributed systems, data pipelines, observability, and operational reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally with Research/Product/Security to ship systems that materially reduce risk or abuse at scale.
• Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments.
• Ability to thrive in high context environments.
• Comfort with ambiguity and novelty.
• Ability to communicate clearly and build trust quickly with senior stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Background in autonomy, high-scale real-time systems, or intelligence-adjacent technical domains

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.