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Research Program Manager

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Embed with research teams to translate evolving research priorities into actionable programs for OpenAI's model development, spanning training, reasoning, evaluations, compute, and safety.

Role type

Senior Research Program Manager (hands-on technical)

Builds

Coordinated execution across model training, alignment, safety, and research infrastructure

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Research program management, technical program management, experimental design, model safety, evaluation methods, data workflows, compute infrastructure, distributed systems, technical systems navigation, stakeholder management across teams

Preferred skills

Ability to distinguish known from uncertain information, introducing structure without unnecessary processes, high bar for quality, adaptability to changing priorities

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Translate research priorities into actionable programs, navigate technical and operational tradeoffs, engage directly with research workflows and experimental results, move complex technical initiatives forward across multiple teams, help teams make sound decisions with incomplete information

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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