Hiring: Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform Company: OpenAI Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 07:41:08 Target Skills & Keywords : AI, Data Pipeline, Systems Design About the job Required Skills: •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. •In This Role You Will •Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model misuse, with an emphasis on model IP protection / distillation detection and emerging risk surfaces from autonomous agents. •Set the technical roadmap and execution strategy: prioritize, design, ship, iterate, measure impact. •Build production systems: services, pipelines, tooling, instrumentation, and automation that scale with frontier model usage. •Partner deeply with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into concrete tests, signals, and mitigations that can be deployed at scale. •Drive strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence. •Hire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains as needed. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!