Engineering Manager, Distillation & Dectection Platform
About the role We’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 production services, detection pipelines, and mitigation mechanisms that protect
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Engineering Manager, Distillation & Dectection Platform at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the role We’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 production services, detection pipelines, and mitigation mechanisms that protect
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- 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.
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