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Posted Oct 19, 2026 · Safety Systems

Engineering Manager, Preparedness

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New today Fresh · today Real people manager Senior Managerest Balanced Hybrid $445k–510k/yr
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Direct from OpenAI's careers pageLast verified Oct 20, 2026 on their Ashby job board. We re-check every day and take a role down once it's gone from the company's board.
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Posted Oct 19, 2026 · opened in the last 14 days
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Pay: top 25%
Midpoint $478k vs median $277k for non-remote Senior Manager roles we track (n=86)
Percentile 95 of posted US base ranges at this level · See the Senior 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 harms.

About the role

The Preparedness Engineering team is responsible for building and operating safeguards for frontier model risks, to safely enable advanced capabilities while detecting and limiting harm. We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent…

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