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Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Startups)

OpenAI · San Francisco · Mountain View

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labremotemanager$302k–$335k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead the Startups Applied AI team helping founders move from pilots to production.
  • Build repeatable playbooks and reference architectures for startup deployments.
  • Partner with Sales, Product and Research to scale startup impact.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

A startup-savvy technical leader who thrives in ambiguity and speed, energized by coaching engineers and partnering hands-on with founders to turn AI experiments into production impact.

Requirements

  • Proven experience founding, scaling, or operating within early-stage startups in technical leadership roles
  • Track record building and leading technical, customer-facing teams in high-growth ambiguous environments
  • Strong technical depth across APIs, platform products, AI/ML systems and production deployment
  • Experience creating scalable operating models and repeatable deployment mechanisms
  • Comfortable working directly with founders, CTOs and technical executives

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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