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Technical Program Manager, Foundations Data and Operations

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labremote$207k–$285k
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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
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