Engineering Manager, Model Flywheel

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About the Team

The ChatGPT Model Capabilities and Deployment team unified goal is to transform model advancements into great ChatGPT user experiences through reliable serving, rapid experimentation, safe deployment, and continuous improvement.

Team Focus Areas

• Model Experimentation:

  • Enable rapid, safe model validation for ChatGPT and Codex products through experiment automation and lifecycle management.

• Model Deployment:

  • Ensure safe, scalable deployment of model capabilities with robust rollout and operational tooling.
  • Automate capacity management and incorporate platform-wide health monitors.

• Model Measurement:

  • Build comprehensive evaluation and measurement systems for model quality, from user signals to launch scorecards.
  • Improve end-to-end feedback loops for continual model improvement.

Key Partnerships

Collaborate cross-functionally with teams including Model Measurement DS, Research, Codex, Fleet, Inference, and API.

Responsibilities

• Elevate and consolidate ChatGPT’s harness, context management, and system prompt frameworks.
• Drive expansion and improvement of multi-tier model experiences.
• Support and scale self-serve experiment capabilities and automated guardrails.
• Lead model rollout automation, capacity management, and health monitoring.
• Shape end-to-end measurement systems (evals, grader signals, user feedback, etc.).

Requirements

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Demonstrated success shipping production systems at scale (ideally for AI or large backend services).
• Deep understanding of model-driven product development, deployment lifecycle, and measurement tooling.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills—experience interfacing directly with engineering, research, and product stakeholders.
• Prior involvement with large language models, distributed infrastructure, or experimentation platforms is a plus.

Why Work With Us

• Tackle highly impactful technical challenges at the cutting edge of AI.
• Collaborate with world-class researchers, engineers, and product leaders.
• Build infrastructure and experiences used by millions.
• Shape the future of how people interact with AI.

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, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Benefits

• Base pay within the listed range, plus equity and potential performance-related bonuses.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit).
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays and multiple company office closures throughout the year, plus paid sick or safe time as required by applicable law.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.