Technical Program Manager, Safety Systems Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Technical Program Management
About this role
OpenAI is hiring a mid-level Technical Program Manager in the software engineering function based in San Francisco, CA (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with API Development, Incident Response, OpenAI. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $207,000–$335,000 per year.
- Role
- Technical Program Manager
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Department
- Technical Program Management
- Posted
- Mar 16, 2026
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Job description
from OpenAI careersAbout the Team
The Safety Systems team is in need of a Technical Program Manager to streamline our full safety stack and integration of various safety research and mitigations into ChatGPT and our API. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of our new models, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders — ranging across research, product, engineering, legal, and policy — and ensuring all the risks are effectively and properly monitored, mitigated, or resolved.
About the Role
As a Safety Engineering TPM, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety engineering progress and risk tables to overseeing critical data infrastructure programs, acting as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of OpenAI’s safety system. Additionally, you will create and execute a compute roadmap for your team to ensure that our top priorities are resourced while taking advantage of new opportunities to make key safety infrastructure investments. Your primary focus will be to build a foundational layer to support the safety of all of our models and products.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will: