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Model Policy Manager, Multimodal Safety

OpenAI · San Francisco

hybridunknown$266,000–$335,000Posted Sep 19, 2026

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## About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models—helping ensure models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Work spans system-level safeguards, model training, evaluation, and red-teaming to mitigate misuse and misalignment. ## About the Role OpenAI is hiring a **Model Policy Manager** to focus on the safety of **multimodal models**. You’ll shape how OpenAI identifies, evaluates, and addresses risks in multimodal AI systems (including audio, image, video, and omni-modal behavior). **Location:** San Francisco, CA (hybrid: **3 days in office per week**). Relocation assistance available. ## In This Role, You Will - Design and maintain model policies for **audio, image, video, and omni-modal** behavior. - Translate theories of harm and threat models into **behavioral safety policies**, evaluation criteria, grading guidance, and safeguards. - Identify and analyze **safety regressions** and failure patterns to improve policy. - Develop policy artifacts for training, evaluation, and deployment (e.g., behavior instructions, human-data campaigns, golden sets, evaluations). - Partner with AI researchers, domain experts, and product teams to operationalize policy into **measurable model behavior**. ## You Might Thrive If You - Have strong judgment about real-world risks of advanced multimodal AI systems. - Can turn ambiguous safety questions into **data-driven policies** and measurable evaluation criteria. - Treat policy as an end-to-end measurable system (diagnosing gaps across policy, data, graders, and safeguards). - Have technical fluency to design policies that can be trained, measured, and supervised at scale. - Are comfortable hands-on with model data and evaluation results (inspecting examples, analyzing failures, assessing data quality). - Enjoy fast-paced, collaborative research environments where priorities shift as evidence and risks change. - Take a pragmatic, evidence-driven approach to reducing risk while preserving beneficial uses. - Can drive consensus and action in ambiguous spaces. ## About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer. *Links referenced in the posting:* - https://openai.com/safety/ - https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra - https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-model-spec/ - https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/ - https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5/

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