Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Startups)
OpenAI · San Francisco · Mountain View
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremotemanager$302k–$335k
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