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OpenAI

Engineering Manager

OpenAI

. Hire and develop engineers, coach technical leaders, provide feedback, and establish ownership and accountability .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $401,000 - $536,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Hire and develop engineers, coach technical leaders, provide feedback, and establish ownership and accountability
  • Set technical direction and turn the product roadmap into focused, reliable releases
  • Review architecture and code, investigate difficult failures, and guide consequential technical decisions
  • Translate scientific and customer needs into scoped milestones
  • Make tradeoffs, resolve dependencies, and maintain focus as product and research agendas evolve
  • Guide architecture across scientific interfaces, agent and tool orchestration, local and remote compute, durable execution, and persistent project state
  • Build shared components supporting new scientific workflows
  • Preserve analysis inputs, versions, results, and decisions to make scientific work inspectable and reproducible
  • Establish testing, release practices, observability, and an effective on-call process
  • Improve workflow reliability, latency, and cost; lead resolution of production problems
  • Coordinate with Codex, product, design, research, customer-facing engineers, security, privacy, and safety teams
  • Lead decisions about building or integrating scientific tools, specialist models, data sources, and experimental service providers
  • Work with scientists and design partners to understand workflows and turn customer learning into reusable improvements
  • Address enterprise requirements including private compute, credentials, networking, permissions, and data handling
  • Connect internal research capabilities with supported product features
  • Build instrumentation and feedback pipelines to measure successful workflows and repeat use
  • Support evaluation and model improvement under consent and data-use requirements
  • Implement access controls, review points, auditability, and retention policies throughout scientific workflows

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience managing engineering teams that ship and operate complex software products
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Technical judgment across user-facing applications, backend services, data systems, and compute infrastructure
  • Experience turning early prototypes or research capabilities into reliable products used by external customers
  • Ability to create clarity in ambiguous situations, communicate technical decisions plainly, and coordinate teams with different priorities and reporting structures
  • Strong product usability orientation and ability to translate expert workflows into understandable, inspectable, and trustworthy software
  • Motivation by scientific discovery and willingness to learn from scientists and domain experts
  • Experience in scientific software, computational biology, bioinformatics, chemistry, or laboratory workflows is particularly relevant
  • Experience with AI agents, model inference, tool integrations, or evaluation infrastructure is particularly relevant
  • Experience with workflow orchestration, long-running jobs, reproducible computation, or artifact versioning is particularly relevant
  • Experience with enterprise software deployed with private data, customer-managed infrastructure, and organizational access controls is particularly relevant
  • Experience with developer platforms for building, validating, and sharing reusable tools or workflows is particularly relevant
  • Ability to work from the US office three days per week
  • Authorization to work in the country where the job is located

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays
  • Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year
  • Paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices
  • Meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching
  • Wellness stipends
  • Immigration and sponsorship support may be provided based on individual circumstances