Model Policy Manager, National Security

About the Role

About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives—from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming—all aimed at mitigating misuse, misalignment, and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency. Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI’s benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations. Within Safety Systems, the Model Policy team works to ensure that frontier models behave safely and reliably in real-world environments by designing policies that define safe model behavior. We've had several relevant publications, including: - Safety at every step https://openai.com/safety/ - OpenAI GPT6 System Card https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra - OpenAI Model Spec https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-model-spec/ About the Role We’re hiring a Model Policy Manager to shape model behavior for U.S. government use, with a focus on national security applications. You’ll define nuanced policies and translate them into training and evaluation criteria, helping models navigate high-stakes scenarios while preserving their usefulness and capabilities. In this role, you’ll: - Develop model policies that guide safe and useful behavior. - Build evaluations, identify policy gaps and model failures, and use findings to improve policies and training. - Work with research, engineering, and domain experts to support safe, reliable deployment. You might thrive in this role if you: - Bring relevant experience in AI safety, policy, or risk assessment. - Have strong judgment and can turn complex saf

Key Responsibilities

• Safety at every step https://openai.com/safety/
• OpenAI GPT6 System Card https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra
• OpenAI Model Spec https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-model-spec/
• Develop model policies that guide safe and useful behavior.
• Build evaluations, identify policy gaps and model failures, and use findings to improve policies and training.
• Work with research, engineering, and domain experts to support safe, reliable deployment.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.