About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on May 20, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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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 frontier model integrity and reduce high-severity misuse risk.
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.