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Posted May 20, 2026 · Applied AI

Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform

Open 120d+ Real people manager Managerest Balanced Onsite $400k–445k
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Direct from OpenAI's careers pageVerified fresh Oct 17, 2026 via their Ashby job board. Removed here within a day of closing.
Open 150 days
Since May 20, 2026 · open 4+ months, possibly an evergreen or ghost posting
No reposts seen. Repost tracking started Oct 17, 2026.
Pay: top 25%
Midpoint $422k vs median $270k for non-remote Manager roles we track (n=188)
Percentile 96 of posted US base ranges at this level · See the Manager salary page
Real people manager
The posting describes people-management duties:
  • ✓ hiring for the teamHire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains as needed.
  • ✓ manages a team of engineersLead 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…

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. Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model misuse, with an emphasis on model IP…

Short summary only. The full description, requirements and application are on OpenAI's careers site.

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