Technical Program Manager, Foundations Data

About The Team

The Foundations TPM team supports our research program to scale learning, with a particular focus on data, frontier models and capabilities. We work closely with both research, engineering and infrastructure teams to turn ambitious ideas into reality.

About The Role

As a Foundations TPM, you’ll partner with our research teams to advance and scale high-impact research programs. You’ll operate at the intersection of research, infrastructure, and execution.

We’re looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, can go deep on both research and technical challenges, and enjoys bringing structure, clarity, and forward motion to open-ended problems.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with research leads to plan and coordinate projects, aligning the work across multiple stakeholders.
• Drive successful execution by managing timelines, technical dependencies, and scientific risks.
• Provide clear visibility into progress, tradeoffs, and risks for research leadership
• Build processes and systems that increase team velocity and execution quality over time.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

• Have experience running complex programs with ambitious goals, multiple stakeholders, and deep technical dependencies.
• Enjoy working in research environments with high levels of ambiguity and consistently find ways to make progress.
• Have experience working with infrastructure for training and serving machine learning models, and are able to engage deeply on technical challenges.

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 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.

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