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Engineering Manager, Distributed Systems

OpenAISan Francisco, California, United StatesOnsite

About the Team


The Platform Runtime team builds the low level framework components to power our ML training systems.  We work on building robust, scalable, high performance components to support our distributed training workloads.  Our priorities are to maximize the productivity of our researchers and our hardware, with the goal of accelerating progress towards AGI.  

About the Role


In this role, you will be directly managing our teams responsible for our distributed systems, specifically to deliver powerful APIs orchestrating thousands of computers moving/persisting vast amounts of data. This requires both providing easy to use, introspectible systems that can promote a fast debugging/development cycle, while also enabling that experience to scale to our newest supercomputers maintaining stability and performance throughout.We’re looking for people who love optimizing an end to end system, understanding high performance I/O to maximize local performance and distributed across our compute resources.

We want someone excited by the rapid pace of responding to the dynamic and evolving needs of our training systems architectures. Our team uses Python and Rust, and we are looking for someone who is excited to work in this stack and learn it if they're not familiar.You will build teams in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind.This role is based in San Francisco, CA or remote in the United States (ideally in the West Coast). We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

You might thrive in this role if you:



  • Have 5+ years of management experience, including previous experience managing managers

  • Have been responsible for building large scale systems to distribute workloads and industry-changing scale.

  • Are a seasoned technical leader, excited to do hand-on technical work but equally excited to lead technical teams to peak performance.

  • Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think.

  • Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.

  • Are experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that reliability and scalability are considered in the design and development of new features and services.

  • Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.

  • Have excellent communication skills. Expressing ideas clearly and listening carefully are among the most important requirements for success in this role.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy StatementFor US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt 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.Compensation Range: $360K - $530K

Life at OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. Their main product is ChatGPT. They've trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. 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.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer that values diverse perspectives, voices, and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.2. Our commitment to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities is demonstrated through our global applicant privacy policy and the option for requests via a provided link.3. We believe in shaping the future of technology by creating AI systems that are safe, reliable, and have human needs at their core. Our mission includes encompassing diverse perspectives, voices, and experiences to benefit all of humanity.4. OpenAI's hybrid work model consists of 3 days in the office per week, promoting a collaborative environment while offering relocation assistance for new employees.5. We prioritize impact by supporting researchers, enabling initiatives that have enduring customer and business impact, focusing on data and insights, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging in robust security practices.6. Our commitment to safety is evident through our emphasis on creating AI systems with human needs at their core and a fast-paced environment that provides individuals with high autonomy while valuing diverse perspectives and experiences.7. OpenAI's dedication to ensuring AI benefits all of humanity includes providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, adhering to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and considering qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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