OpenAI · 21 hours ago
Engineering Manager, Core Services
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$293K/yr - $385K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking an Engineering Manager, Core Services to lead teams responsible for building and operating mission-critical distributed systems that support OpenAI products. The role involves managing a team of engineers, setting technical direction, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure reliable service delivery.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Managing and growing a high-performing, team of infrastructure engineers
Leading teams building and operating large, critical production platforms, including cluster reliability, scaling, and rollout safety
Building and operating mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor (SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, reliability)
Setting technical direction for platform foundations such as workflow/orchestration capabilities, large-scale file/blob/storage services, and core service foundations
Partnering with a broad set of stakeholders, including product engineering, adjacent infrastructure teams, and (where relevant) finance/cost partners
Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers and emerging leaders
Qualification
Required
Managing and growing a high-performing, team of infrastructure engineers
Leading teams building and operating large, critical production platforms, including cluster reliability, scaling, and rollout safety
Building and operating mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor (SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, reliability)
Setting technical direction for platform foundations such as workflow/orchestration capabilities, large-scale file/blob/storage services, and core service foundations
Partnering with a broad set of stakeholders, including product engineering, adjacent infrastructure teams, and (where relevant) finance/cost partners
Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers and emerging leaders
Have significant experience leading teams that run mission-critical infrastructure in production
Have experience operating mission-critical services, or core distributed systems building blocks
Have built platform-like systems (e.g., orchestration/workflow execution, service platforms) and/or large-scale storage/blob/file infrastructure
Have experience building systems spanning multiple cloud environments
Take pride in building scalable, reliable systems and improving operational health
Own problems end-to-end and can move fast in environments with ambiguity and competing priorities
Benefits
Relocation assistance for new employees
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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2025 (1)
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2022 (18)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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