Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)
OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremotemanager$302k–$335k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead team helping customers turn frontier AI into real products and impact.
- Drive scaled Codex adoption across strategic engineering organizations.
- Build repeatable patterns for AI-powered software development.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
A hands-on technical leader who loves partnering with customers and coaching engineers. You thrive in ambiguity and care deeply about transforming how software is built with AI.
Requirements
- 8+ years in deeply technical, customer-facing roles such as applied engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, or technical consulting
- 2+ years leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers
- Experience building or deploying generative AI, developer platforms, agentic systems, or cloud-based software in production
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience and fluency with Python or JavaScript
- Understand modern software development lifecycles and how AI and coding agents change software development
- Can work with customer engineering teams on ambiguous problems and turn ideas into working solutions
- Effective communicator for engineering teams and executive stakeholders
- Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments building operating models and teams from first principles
- Strong ownership, humility, technical judgment, and commitment to safe and beneficial AI
- remote policy
- Hybrid – 3 days in office per week
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets