Technical Program Manager, Foundations Data and Operations
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labremote$207k–$285k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead research and engineering programs powering search for over a billion users.
- Drive work across retrieval, indexing, and model improvements for Search.
- Partner across policy, legal, and external data partners on data access.
What they offer
- equity
Ideal candidate
A hands-on technical program leader who thrives in ambiguity and cares about search quality. You bring clarity, product judgment, and cross-functional trust to move complex research into impact.
Requirements
- Substantial technical experience delivering complex programs across multiple engineering teams
- Experience with search, information retrieval, indexing, or similarly complex systems
- Ability to understand technical architectures and tradeoffs and communicate with engineers and researchers
- Brings clarity to ambiguous research problems and adapts plans while maintaining momentum
- Combines product judgment with program discipline tied to user experience quality
- Resourceful and hands-on, comfortable moving between strategy and execution details
- Builds trust across functions and influences decisions across differing priorities
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