Research Program Manager
Openai · San Francisco
- Level
- Lead
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-08-31
- Compensation
- $239K – $328K • Offers Equity
- Team
- Research, Research Program Management
Role description
About the Team OpenAI’s Research Program Management team partners with researchers and engineers to advance the development of increasingly capable, safe, and beneficial AI systems. We work alongside teams developing our core models, helping turn ambitious research goals into coordinated execution across model training, alignment and safety, and research infrastructure. The team also regularly collaborates with our closest cross-functional partners such as Security, Applied product and engineering, Strategy, and Scaling. About the Role As a Research Program Manager, you will embed with research teams and help drive some of the most technically complex and consequential work behind OpenAI’s model development.…
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