{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a67f8f4178c637422c911ecb","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a67f8f4178c637422c911ecb","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a67f8f4178c637422c911ecb","title":"Technical Program Manager, Frontier Evals","description":"About the Team\n\nOpenAI’s Frontier Evals team designs and builds evaluations that measure the capabilities, limitations, and emerging behaviors of our most advanced models. As a research team, we advance both the science and infrastructure of model evaluation, developing methods, systems, and datasets that help us understand where frontier models succeed, where they fail, and what those results imply for future development and deployment.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nAs a Technical Program Manager on Frontier Evals, you will drive high-priority evaluation and research programs from concept through design, execution, and analysis. This is a hybrid IC and program management role: you will help design evals, build lightweight technical workflows, manage human data campaigns, create project roadmaps, track execution, and coordinate across researchers, engineers, data teams, vendors, and domain experts. You should be comfortable ramping quickly on unfamiliar topics, turning open-ended research questions into concrete plans, and doing the hands-on work required to make progress before perfect infrastructure exists. The right person is operationally strong, highly resourceful, and excited to work on research projects where the path is not already defined.\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA. We require 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.\n\nIn this role, you will:\nManage frontier evaluation projects from initial research questions to delivered benchmarks.\n\nPartner with researchers and engineers to translate ambiguous model capability questions into concrete eval designs, success metrics, timelines, and execution plans.\n\nDesign and manage human data campaigns, including task design, trainer or expert instructions, and quality control workflows.\n\nDo hands-on technical work where needed, including prompt iteration, model-based evaluation workflows, data analysis, lightweight scripting, dashboarding, and debugging eval pipelines.\n\nBuild roadmaps and operating rhythms that keep fast-moving research efforts aligned and unblocked.\n\nCoordinate across research, engineering, human data, product, safety, legal, external vendors, and domain experts to deliver high-quality evals under tight timelines.\n\nRamp quickly on new domains and project areas, identifying what needs to be learned, who needs to be involved, and whatever is required to complete the project.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nHave experience in technical program management, research operations, data operations, evaluation, or a similarly ambiguous technical execution role.\n\nAre proficient enough in Python, SQL, or similar tools to analyze datasets, inspect model outputs, automate workflows, and unblock yourself without waiting on engineering support for every step.\n\nHave a strong understanding of how large language models work, including prompting, model evaluation, grading, and common failure modes.\n\nAre excited to work as both an IC and a program manager: writing analysis scripts one day, aligning stakeholders the next, and then redesigning a data campaign or eval rubric when results reveal a flaw.\n\nCan quickly turn vague research goals into clear plans, crisp milestones, owners, risks, and decision points.\n\nAre relentlessly resourceful: you find partial, scrappy, technically sound ways to make progress while helping teams build more scalable systems over time.\n\nCommunicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, especially when explaining tradeoffs, uncertainty, quality risks, and research findings.\n\nLearn new technical domains quickly and enjoy context switching across multiple high-priority projects.\n\nCare deeply about building rigorous evaluations that help OpenAI understand and safely deploy increasingly capable models.\n\nCompensation Range\n\n: $207K - $230K USD\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world 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 encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nFor additional information, please see\n\nOpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement\n\n.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and 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 US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through\n\nthis form\n\n. 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We require 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.\n\nIn this role, you will:\nManage frontier evaluation projects from initial research questions to delivered benchmarks.\n\nPartner with researchers and engineers to translate ambiguous model capability questions into concrete eval designs, success metrics, timelines, and execution plans.\n\nDesign and manage human data campaigns, including task design, trainer or expert instructions, and quality control workflows.\n\nDo hands-on technical work where needed, including prompt iteration, model-based evaluation workflows, data analysis, lightweight scripting, dashboarding, and debugging eval pipelines.\n\nBuild roadmaps and operating rhythms that keep fast-moving research efforts aligned and unblocked.\n\nCoordinate across research, engineering, human data, product, safety, legal, external vendors, and domain experts to deliver high-quality evals under tight timelines.\n\nRamp quickly on new domains and project areas, identifying what needs to be learned, who needs to be involved, and whatever is required to complete the project.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nHave experience in technical program management, research operations, data operations, evaluation, or a similarly ambiguous technical execution role.\n\nAre proficient enough in Python, SQL, or similar tools to analyze datasets, inspect model outputs, automate workflows, and unblock yourself without waiting on engineering support for every step.\n\nHave a strong understanding of how large language models work, including prompting, model evaluation, grading, and common failure modes.\n\nAre excited to work as both an IC and a program manager: writing analysis scripts one day, aligning stakeholders the next, and then redesigning a data campaign or eval rubric when results reveal a flaw.\n\nCan quickly turn vague research goals into clear plans, crisp milestones, owners, risks, and decision points.\n\nAre relentlessly resourceful: you find partial, scrappy, technically sound ways to make progress while helping teams build more scalable systems over time.\n\nCommunicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, especially when explaining tradeoffs, uncertainty, quality risks, and research findings.\n\nLearn new technical domains quickly and enjoy context switching across multiple high-priority projects.\n\nCare deeply about building rigorous evaluations that help OpenAI understand and safely deploy increasingly capable models.\n\nCompensation Range\n\n: $207K - $230K USD\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world 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 encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nFor additional information, please see\n\nOpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement\n\n.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and 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 US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through\n\nthis form\n\n. 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