Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 293,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Strategic thinking"]

Engineering manager leading a team building scalable detection and mitigation systems to prevent misuse of frontier AI models. You’ll guide production services, detection pipelines, and risk mitigation, partnering with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into tests and signals, while ensuring reliability and operational excellence at billions of user scale.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
4 months ago

Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform

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Job Summary

Engineering manager leading a team building scalable detection and mitigation systems to prevent misuse of frontier AI models. You’ll guide production services, detection pipelines, and risk mitigation, partnering with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into tests and signals, while ensuring reliability and operational excellence at billions of user scale.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model misuse, with an emphasis on model IP protection / distillation detection and emerging risk surfaces from autonomous agents.
  • •Set the technical roadmap and execution strategy: prioritize, design, ship, iterate, measure impact.
  • •Build production systems: services, pipelines, tooling, instrumentation, and automation that scale with frontier model usage.
  • •Partner deeply with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into concrete tests, signals, and mitigations that can be deployed at scale.
  • •Drive strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Experience leading engineering teams delivering production systems end-to-end.
  • •Strong software engineering foundation with ability to build reliable systems at large scale.
  • •Ability to set technical roadmaps and execution strategies: prioritize, design, ship, iterate, measure impact.
  • •Experience partnering with Research and Product to translate model capabilities into concrete tests, signals, and mitigations.
  • •Strong focus on architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence.
Experience:Frontier AISecurityRisk mitigationApplied ML engineering
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingStrategic thinking
Tech Stack:Distributed systemsData pipelinesProduction systemsObservabilityScalability

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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