OpenAI · 6 hours ago
Manager, Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$320K/yr - $425K/yr
2+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. In this role, you will lead a team of Protection Scientist Engineers to design and build systems that proactively identify and enforce on abuse of OpenAI’s products, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to address key risks.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Lead, manage, and support an interdisciplinary and technical team across US timezones, working with them to chart longer term strategies
Leverage your expertise in designing, launching, and improving systems of defense to mentor the team and develop both technical and organisational solutions
Identify and create opportunities to enhance and make more efficient the team’s core work through understanding both cross-functional and technical challenges
Review, and at times design and participate in, the implementation of abuse detection, review, and enforcement for new product launches and major harms
Work with Product, Policy, Ops, and Investigative teams to understand key risks and how to address them, and with Engineering teams to ensure we have sufficient data and scaled tooling
Communicate the work of the team, at times externally, and coordinate with cross-functional partners to scope and prioritize work across abuse response
Qualification
Required
Have at least two years of experience managing or tech leading teams that fight threats at a tech company and/or government organization
Have deep experience with technical analysis and harm detection, especially using SQL and Python
Have experience in trust and safety and/or have worked closely with policy, enforcement, and engineering teams. An investigative mindset is key
Have experience with basic data engineering, such as building core tables or writing data pipelines in production, and with machine learning principles and execution. Basic software development skills are a plus as this role writes productionised code
Have experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
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2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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