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Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)

OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City

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Frontier labremotemanager$302k–$335k
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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
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