Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform
Openai · San Francisco
- Level
- Lead
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-05-20
- Compensation
- $400K – $445K • Offers Equity
- Team
- Applied AI, Applied AI Engineering
Role description
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.…
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