Technical Program Manager, Sora

About the Team 

The Sora team is working on making video a key capability of OpenAI’s foundation models. We are a hybrid research and product team that seeks to understand and expand the capabilities of our video models, while ensuring their reliability and safety. We accomplish this both through directly studying and experimenting with the models, as well as deploying them into the real-world to distribute their benefits widely.

About The Role
The Sora team is in need of a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to streamline the development and integration of ongoing training and research efforts. Your primary focus will be to organize research processes, improve the information flow within our team and ensure projects progress efficiently and smoothly.
As an TPM on the Sora team, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from driving long-term and short-term research progress to overseeing the quality of human data campaigns – acting as the connective tissue within the team to enhance the deployment of model capabilities. Additionally, you will create and execute a compute roadmap for our team to ensure that our top priorities are resourced while taking advantage of new opportunities to make research discoveries. Your primary focus will be to ensure our models remain cutting-edge and our research development efforts are agile and informed. 

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Possess an advanced degree in a hard science, with a PhD being advantageous OR a demonstrated track record of engineering expertise. 

• Have an extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex technical projects against tight deadlines.

• Are technically adept, and have effectively partnered with engineering and fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.

• Have expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.

• Are relentlessly resourceful and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

• Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Are interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AGI.

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. 

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