OpenAI

Engineering Manager, Rosalind Workbench

OpenAI • $160K — $190K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in engineering management roles leading software development teams.
  • Proficient in software engineering fundamentals across diverse tech stacks.
  • Experience turning prototypes into robust external customer products.
  • Skilled in simplifying complex technical concepts and enhancing cross-team collaboration.
  • Passion for product usability with a focus on user-centric design and trust.
  • Ability to foster ownership, learning, and high standards within engineering teams.
  • Interest in scientific discovery and eagerness to collaborate with domain experts.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a high-performing engineering team.
  • Drive technical planning and project delivery aligned with customer and scientific needs.
  • Shape the architecture of the Rosalind Workbench and its ecosystem.
  • Ensure scientific work is reproducible and inspectable across workflows.
  • Establish engineering quality standards in production environments.
  • Coordinate efforts across teams and external partners for successful integrations.
  • Translate customer feedback into systematic product improvements.
  • Connect research insights to product features for enhanced usability and performance.
  • Implement safety measures and privacy protocols in scientific workflows.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the future of scientific software and engineering processes.
  • Collaborative environment with interdisciplinary teams including scientists and product designers.
  • Focus on personal growth with an emphasis on coaching and team ownership.
  • Involvement in cutting-edge technologies and innovations in computational biology.
  • Chance to contribute to meaningful scientific advancements that impact users' work.
Full Job Description
About the role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team building Rosalind Workbench and its supporting infrastructure. You'll hire and develop engineers, set technical direction, and turn an ambitious product roadmap into focused, reliable releases.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You should be comfortable reviewing architecture and code, investigating difficult failures, and helping engineers make consequential technical decisions. You'll work closely with product, design, research, Codex engineering, and customer-facing teams to bring new scientific capabilities into everyday use.

In this role, you will
  • Build and lead the engineering team. Hire strong engineers, coach technical leaders, provide clear feedback, and establish ownership and accountability across product and infrastructure work.
  • Drive technical planning and delivery. Translate scientific and customer needs into scoped milestones. Make explicit tradeoffs, resolve dependencies, and keep a small team focused as the product and research agenda evolve.
  • Shape the Workbench architecture. Guide development across scientific interfaces, agent and tool orchestration, local and remote compute, durable execution, and persistent project state. Build shared components that support new scientific workflows.
  • Make scientific work inspectable and reproducible. Preserve the inputs, versions, results, and decisions behind an analysis. Ensure scientists can move between conversations, viewers, and follow-up investigations without losing context or control.
  • Own engineering quality in production. Establish testing, release practices, observability, and an effective on-call process. Improve workflow reliability, latency, and cost, and lead resolution of problems that prevent scientists from completing their work.
  • Coordinate across teams and partners. Align with Codex on shared platform capabilities and with customer-facing engineers on deployment needs. Lead technical decisions about building or integrating scientific tools, specialist models, data sources, and experimental service providers.
  • Turn customer learning into reusable improvements. Work directly with scientists and design partners to understand their workflows. Address enterprise requirements such as private compute, credentials, networking, permissions, and data handling, with clear ownership for common product improvements and customer-specific integrations.
  • Connect product engineering with research. Help turn capabilities proven in internal research into supported product features. Build instrumentation and feedback pipelines that measure successful workflows and repeat use, and support evaluation and model improvement under explicit consent and data-use requirements.
  • Build safety and trust into the product. Partner with security, privacy, and safety teams to implement appropriate access controls, review points, auditability, and retention policies throughout scientific workflows.


You might thrive in this role if you
  • Have experience managing engineering teams that ship and operate complex software products.
  • Bring strong software engineering fundamentals and the technical judgment to work across user-facing applications, backend services, data systems, and compute infrastructure.
  • Have helped turn early prototypes or research capabilities into reliable products used by external customers.
  • Can create clarity in ambiguous situations, communicate technical decisions plainly, and coordinate teams with different priorities and reporting structures.
  • Care deeply about product usability and can translate expert workflows into software that users can understand, inspect, and trust.
  • Build teams where engineers take ownership, learn quickly, and maintain high standards while shipping.
  • Are motivated by scientific discovery and willing to learn closely from scientists and domain experts.


Particularly relevant experience
  • Scientific software, computational biology, bioinformatics, chemistry, or laboratory workflows.
  • AI agents, model inference, tool integrations, or evaluation infrastructure.
  • Workflow orchestration, long-running jobs, reproducible computation, or artifact versioning.
  • Enterprise software deployed with private data, customer-managed infrastructure, and organizational access controls.
  • Developer platforms that let users build, validate, and share reusable tools or workflows.


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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