Technical Program Manager, Foundation Data
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 230 - 285
Posted on:
18-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Team
The Foundations TPM Team is responsible for providing the training data to advance our models intelligence and expand their capabilities. We build and manage some of the largest datasets in the world spanning trillions of tokens across modalities and languages. Our work directly shapes what our models learn and teaches them new skills that hundreds of millions of people use.
About the Role
As a Foundations TPM youll work directly with researchers to create the datasets we need to achieve AGI. Youll work with researchers to understand what data we need and drive our efforts to acquire it. Youll also lead the development of our data platform to power both human researchers and AI agents to search filter and curate massive datasets for training.
Were looking for people who want to push the frontier of AI through better data and build the next generation of tooling for working with internet-scale pipelines and training datasets.
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:
Lead end-to-end programs to acquire and deliver high-impact data and training environments collaborating closely with our research crawling partnership and human data teams.
Drive the end-to-end creation of mission-critical training datasets for major model training runs.
Own the data platform roadmap and lead the development of new features proposing prioritizing and iterating on features that unlock research velocity.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Youve led large and ambitious technical programs that had a major impact.
Are fluent in infrastructure data or AI/ML and love working shoulder-to-shoulder with researchers and engineers.
You have excellent communication skills - you are able to articulate problems clearly and drive decision making in the face of ambiguity.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- Management Experience
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- DoD Experience
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Contracts
About Company
We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems. Building safe and beneficial AGI is our mission.
