OpenAI

Engineering Manager, Artifacts

OpenAI$160K — $190K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in engineering management or similar roles
  • Strong full-stack product engineering skills
  • Background in AI or ML technologies
  • Ability to navigate fast-paced and ambiguous environments
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including research and product design
  • High attention to craft, quality, and user experience
  • Proven track record of hands-on architecture and debugging expertise

Responsibilities

  • Lead and expand an engineering team focused on AI-native artifact creation
  • Define technical direction for product systems from inception to execution
  • Engage in hands-on architecture, code review, and system design
  • Collaborate with research to translate AI capabilities into product features
  • Work alongside product and design to enhance user experiences
  • Develop an engineering roadmap that includes hiring and project milestones
  • Balance immediate product development needs with long-term system reliability and quality

Benefits

  • Work in a dynamic and innovative environment focused on AI technologies
  • Opportunity to shape a new category of AI-native products
  • Flexible work arrangements to support a productive work-life balance
  • Access to professional development and team growth initiatives
  • Collaborative culture emphasizing team success and individual contributions
Full Job Description
About the Role

As Engineering Manager, Artifacts, you will lead and grow the engineering team responsible for building this product and technical foundation. You will manage a team of full-stack and infrastructure-oriented engineers, set technical direction, and stay hands-on enough to shape architecture and debug hard problems.

This role sits at the intersection of product engineering, research, and infrastructure. You will partner with researchers on how models are trained and evaluated for artifact creation, with product and design on the user experience.

This is a strong fit for a technical manager who wants to build and ship, not only coordinate. The team has a fast trajectory, so you will help define both the product surface and the team that builds it.

In this role, you will:
  • Lead, manage, and grow a team building AI-native artifact creation experiences across documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, and emerging artifact formats.
  • Set technical direction across full-stack product systems, generation orchestration, editing and rendering surfaces, storage, reliability, and model integration.
  • Responsible for hands-on architecture, code review, debugging, system design, and critical product decisions.
  • Partner closely with research teams to translate model capabilities, training needs, evals, and behavioral insights into shipped product improvements.
  • Work with product, design, infrastructure, and safety partners to define what excellent artifact creation should feel like for users.
  • Create the engineering plan for the next phase of the team, including hiring, execution milestones, technical investments, and operating cadence.
  • Balance near-term product velocity with long-term platform quality, reliability, extensibility, and developer productivity.
  • Debug complex failures across model behavior, product surfaces, infrastructure, latency, and user-facing quality.
  • Help expand the team's scope from familiar artifact types into new forms of AI-native work products.
You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have experience leading engineering teams while remaining technically close to the work.
  • Have strong full-stack product engineering fundamentals and can reason across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and model-facing systems.
  • Are excited by AI-native creation tools and have opinions about what makes documents, slides, spreadsheets, dashboards, and interactive artifacts genuinely useful.
  • Can operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the product, model capability, and technical architecture are all evolving at once.
  • Have experience partnering with research, ML, product, design, infrastructure, or data teams.
  • Care about craft, quality, latency, reliability, and user experience, not just whether a system technically works.
  • Have strong judgment about when to build product-specific systems versus reusable platform foundations.
  • Learn quickly, communicate clearly, and bring enough technical depth to raise the bar for the team.
  • Desire to help define and own a new category of AI-native work.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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2015

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