Engineering Manager Client Platform Engineering
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead engineers responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operation of cross-platform client foundations. You will set technical direction, develop engineers, guide architectural decisions, improve secure fleet operations, and establish operating practices that deliver reliable, low-friction employee experiences.
Requirements
- Experience building and leading teams that own secure, reliable, mission-critical services and infrastructure at scale.
- Experience delivering internal platforms, tooling, and services that improve reliability, security, and employee experience.
- Sound software and infrastructure engineering judgment at scale.
- Experience reviewing architecture, automation, code, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
- Experience operating infrastructure with material security or identity risk.
- Commitment to joining the engineering on-call rotation after ramp-up.
- Experience building inclusive teams and influencing Security, IT, and Product/Engineering partners.
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, coach, and develop an engineering team.
- Define and execute the multi-year client-platform strategy and roadmap.
- Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, application delivery, onboarding, updates, telemetry, workflow orchestration, and remediation.
- Guide architecture and tradeoffs across services, tooling, SaaS platforms, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
- Establish goals, ownership, planning, design reviews, and execution rhythms.
- Improve reliability and security through observability, staged rollouts, release gates, rollback paths, incident learning, and runbooks.
- Partner with Security, IT, Research, Applied, Product, and engineering teams to deliver company-wide changes.
- Define agent and human approval boundaries and auditability.
- Use operational and employee-experience metrics to guide investment and communicate impact.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families, with employer Health Savings Account contributions.
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees or up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
- 13+ paid company holidays, coordinated office closures, and paid sick or safe time.
- Mental health and wellness support.
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
- Annual learning and development stipend.
- Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits.
- Relocation support for eligible employees.
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided.
