Engineering Manager, Search Product Infra
Job Description
- Hire and manage a diverse, high-performing engineering team
- Evolve search systems for speed and reliability, collaborating across teams
- Coach engineers to maximize their impact and growth
- Create an inclusive culture enabling radical candor and challenging groupthink
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, including 5+ years in engineering management
- Passion for building and evolving large-scale distributed systems to be fast, reliable, and maintainable
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change, eager to solve problems deeply
- Strong track record of coaching engineers to achieve their peak potential
- Voracious desire to learn and share knowledge clearly and concisely
- Experience attracting and hiring top talent for highly competitive technical roles
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Employment Type
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Full time
Department
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Applied AI
Compensation
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- $325K – $405K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
The OpenAI Search team is reimagining the search experience for the AI era. Working across research, engineering, product, and design, we’re bringing real-time information seamlessly into ChatGPT and our API, and innovating across the full stack to create an experience that’s delightful, reliable, and blazing fast.
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to guide our product infrastructure team. As part of this, your team will make search fast and reliable, while building strong foundations that enable the team to innovate quickly and safely.
We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader who can go deep to help us craft the right strategy, build a world-class team, and enable strong execution.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
- Hire and manage a diverse, high-performing engineering team
- Evolve our search systems to deliver speed and reliability to our users, collaborating with teams ranging from research to infrastructure to product and enabling step-change improvements
- Coach engineers to maximize their impact and growth
- Create an inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of groupthink
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 10+ years of experience in engineering, including 5+ years of experience in engineering management
- Have a passion for building and evolving large-scale distributed systems to be fast, reliable, and maintainable
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change, and eager to get deep into the weeds to help solve problems
- Have a strong track record of coaching engineers to achieve their peak potential
- Feel a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills—and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others
- Have experience attracting and hiring top talent for highly competitive technical roles, and can effectively communicate a vision that resonates with candidates
