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Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform

About the roleWe’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 pr

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-05-20T13:27:56.207+00:00

OpenAI is hiring an engineering manager to lead a team that builds software detecting and preventing harmful misuse of frontier AI models before incidents happen. The work covers production services, detection pipelines and mitigation tooling, with emphasis on model IP protection and distillation detection, plus emerging risks from autonomous agents. The posting wants a software engineering foundation rather than a research track: experience leading engineers, shipping distributed systems and data pipelines, strong operational and observability judgment, and comfort partnering with Research, Product and Security in adversarial, fast-changing environments. Security-adjacent backgrounds such as abuse prevention or fraud are noted.