TL;DR
Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems (AI Engineering): Leading a team building and operating core online database and indexing services for OpenAI's production AI applications with an accent on reliability, correctness, and scalability of the online data stack. Focus on distributed query execution, multi-region federation, and self-healing systems.
Location: San Francisco
Salary: $325K – $405K + Offers Equity
Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
What you will do
- Build, lead, and grow high-performing infrastructure engineering teams.
- Drive the evolution of OpenAI’s in-house online data technologies, including database systems, indexing technologies, and vector search.
- Anchor delivery around measurable reliability goals to ensure system performance and resiliency.
- Champion pragmatic use of agent technology to amplify execution velocity.
- Reduce operational toil and incident frequency through better abstractions, guardrails, and self-healing systems.
Requirements
- Have a truly insatiable spirit for operational excellence, demonstrated by having your hands-on in building and operating infrastructure with strict reliability, latency, and security requirements.
- Have experience managing data-intensive software engineering teams in intense, demanding environments.
- Bring deep hands-on understanding of database, indexing, storage, and distributed systems technologies.
- Effectively modulate your technical engagement to create space for a highly technical team to lead and grow.
- Have a demonstrable track record of hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineers.
Culture & Benefits
- Belief that artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges.
- Commitment to safely deploy AI to the world through our products.
- Value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.