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Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform

OpenAI · San Francisco

$293k - $385k/yrManagerEngineeringApplied AIApplied AI EngineeringPosted 4 months ago
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About the role We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models - before incidents occur. This is a builder’s role: you’ll lead engineers shipping production services, detection pipelines, and mitigation mechanisms that protect frontier model integrity and reduce high-severity misuse risk. While this work intersects with frontier model development, security and risk, we’re explicitly seeking someone with a software engineering foundation who is comfortable building reliable systems that can operate at billions of users scale. In this role you will: - 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. - Hire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains as needed. - Anticipate what breaks at scale as agentic workflows become more capable. You might thrive in this role if you: - Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments - Are comfortable with ambiguity and novelty - Have experience adjacent to security (e.g., abuse prevention, fraud, integrity, platform defense, auth/identity, malware/spam, adversarial environments) - Communicate clearly and build trust quickly with senior stakeholders - pragmatic, collaborative, and calm under scruti

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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