OpenAI
Manager, Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations
OpenAI, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Manager, Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations
About The Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires real‑world deployment and iteratively updating based on what we learn.
About The Role Protection Science Engineering is an interdisciplinary role that mixes data science, machine learning, investigation and policy/protocol development. As a manager of Protection Scientist Engineers you will lead a small but growing team to design and build systems that proactively identify and enforce abuse on OpenAI’s products. This includes maintaining robust abuse monitoring for new and existing products and prototyping systems that defend against our highest‑risk harms. The team also responds to and investigates critical escalations that are not caught by existing safety systems. You will collaborate cross‑functionally with product, policy, ops and engineering teams.
Location: San Francisco office. The role may involve urgent escalations outside normal work hours and can expose you to sensitive content such as sexual, child safety, violent or disturbing material.
In This Role, You Will
Lead, manage and support an interdisciplinary, technical team across U.S. time zones.
Leverage expertise in designing, launching and improving defense systems to mentor the team and develop technical and organizational solutions.
Identify opportunities to enhance the team’s core work through understanding cross‑functional and technical challenges.
Review and, when appropriate, design and participate in the implementation of abuse detection, review and enforcement for new product launches and major harms.
Partner with Product, Policy, Ops and Investigative teams to understand key risks and with Engineering to secure sufficient data and scaled tooling.
Communicate the team’s work externally, coordinate cross‑functional partners, and scope and prioritize work across abuse response.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
Have at least two years of experience managing or tech‑leading teams that fight threats at a tech company or government organization.
Have deep experience with technical analysis and harm detection, especially using SQL and Python.
Have experience in trust and safety and/or worked closely with policy, enforcement and engineering teams; an investigative mindset is key.
Have basic data‑engineering experience such as building core tables or writing data pipelines in production, and understand machine‑learning principles and execution. Basic software development skills are a plus.
Have experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models.
About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission we must value the many different perspectives, voices and experiences that comprise humanity.
We are an equal‑opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristic. For more information, see OpenAI’s
Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, for U.S.‑based candidates.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Requests can be made via the link provided.
Compensation Range: $320,000 – $425,000
Key Details Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level Employment type: Full‑time Job function: Other Industries: Research Services
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About The Role Protection Science Engineering is an interdisciplinary role that mixes data science, machine learning, investigation and policy/protocol development. As a manager of Protection Scientist Engineers you will lead a small but growing team to design and build systems that proactively identify and enforce abuse on OpenAI’s products. This includes maintaining robust abuse monitoring for new and existing products and prototyping systems that defend against our highest‑risk harms. The team also responds to and investigates critical escalations that are not caught by existing safety systems. You will collaborate cross‑functionally with product, policy, ops and engineering teams.
Location: San Francisco office. The role may involve urgent escalations outside normal work hours and can expose you to sensitive content such as sexual, child safety, violent or disturbing material.
In This Role, You Will
Lead, manage and support an interdisciplinary, technical team across U.S. time zones.
Leverage expertise in designing, launching and improving defense systems to mentor the team and develop technical and organizational solutions.
Identify opportunities to enhance the team’s core work through understanding cross‑functional and technical challenges.
Review and, when appropriate, design and participate in the implementation of abuse detection, review and enforcement for new product launches and major harms.
Partner with Product, Policy, Ops and Investigative teams to understand key risks and with Engineering to secure sufficient data and scaled tooling.
Communicate the team’s work externally, coordinate cross‑functional partners, and scope and prioritize work across abuse response.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
Have at least two years of experience managing or tech‑leading teams that fight threats at a tech company or government organization.
Have deep experience with technical analysis and harm detection, especially using SQL and Python.
Have experience in trust and safety and/or worked closely with policy, enforcement and engineering teams; an investigative mindset is key.
Have basic data‑engineering experience such as building core tables or writing data pipelines in production, and understand machine‑learning principles and execution. Basic software development skills are a plus.
Have experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models.
About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission we must value the many different perspectives, voices and experiences that comprise humanity.
We are an equal‑opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristic. For more information, see OpenAI’s
Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, for U.S.‑based candidates.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Requests can be made via the link provided.
Compensation Range: $320,000 – $425,000
Key Details Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level Employment type: Full‑time Job function: Other Industries: Research Services
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