Technical Program Manager, Trustworthy AI
About The Position
About the Team The Trustworthy AI team is investing in external assurances to build out a robust safety ecosystem. This includes enabling third party assessments for OpenAI’s flagship launches, piloting new assurance mechanisms like safety compliance reviews, and incorporating independent expert input as evidence for critical safety decisions. This role requires a blend of partnership management, cross functional coordination, an understanding of AI safety research and evaluations, and strong communication skills to synthesize findings and translate into decision relevant actions. About the Role As a Technical Program Manager on the Trustworthy AI team, you will drive interdisciplinary programs in collaboration with external partners. This includes strategizing and executing on the vision for strategic research partnerships, and growing and managing our external assurance programs which include third party assessments and enabling independent academic research. We’re looking for people who have experience running strategic academic collaborations and program management with technical and research teams. You will work with researchers/engineers both internal to OpenAI and as a part of the external community to initiate new projects, set ambitious goals and milestones, and drive execution across multiple teams. 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.
Requirements
- Have an understanding of AI evaluations and measurements and ability to engage with technical teams on AI evaluations
- Have experience working with and managing stakeholders external to an organization, especially academic researchers
- Can create executive summaries and synthesis of technical and social science research
- Have worked cross functionally across product, research, and engineering teams
- Have an understanding and interest in frontier AI safety and policy
Responsibilities
- Create strategic research partnerships
- Proactively identify new partners for external assurances such as high quality third party evaluators and academic research labs
- Create feedback mechanisms for translating external research into actionable product and policy recommendations
- Communicate progress, status and risk effectively to stakeholders internally and externally
- Drive tool and process improvements to improve efficiency
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
