Job Description

About the Team

The OpenAI Search team is reimagining the search experience for the AI era. Working across research, engineering, product, and design, were bringing real-time information seamlessly into ChatGPT and our API, and innovating across the full stack to create an experience thats delightful, reliable, and blazing fast.

About the Role

Were looking for an experienced engineering leader to guide our product infrastructure team. As part of this, your team will make search fast and reliable, while building strong foundations that enable the team to innovate quickly and safely.

Were looking for an experienced engineering leader who can go deep to help us craft the right strategy, build a world-class team, and enable strong execution.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Hire and manage a diverse, high-performing engineering team

• Evolve our search systems to deliver speed and reliability to our users, collaborating with teams ranging from research to infrastructure to product and enabling step-change improvements

• Coach engineers to maximize their impact and growth

• Create an inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of groupthink

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10+ years of experience in engineering, including 5+ years of experience in engineering management

• Have a passion for building and evolving large-scale distributed systems to be fast, reliable, and maintainable

• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change, and eager to get deep into the weeds to help solve problems

• Have a strong track record of coaching engineers to achieve their peak potential

• Feel a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skillsand an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others

• Have experience attracting and hiring top talent for highly competitive technical roles, and can effectively communicate a vision that resonates with candidates

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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