OpenAI is looking to build the foundational systems that will help scale access to intelligence responsibly, including developing user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products like next-generation ads experiences, to strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI’s long-term innovation.
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating distributed systems at large scale
- Have a track record of building and scaling critical systems with strong reliability, performance, and safety constraints
- Skilled at defining technical roadmaps, setting long-term direction, and navigating ambiguous product spaces
- Thrive in 0→1 environments where strategy, architecture, and execution all need to be defined from scratch
- Bring experience collaborating in AI/ML, ads systems, marketplaces, or other monetization-heavy domains
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a diverse, high-performing engineering team working across backend, full-stack, and systems engineering
- Define and own the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution plan for OpenAI’s core monetization and ads systems
- Guide the architecture of distributed systems that operate at massive scale and require high reliability, privacy, and performance
- Collaborate with Product, Research, and Design partners to define product requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and bring new experiences to market
- Drive 0→1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment
- Ensure your team operates effectively, maintains high engineering rigor, and consistently delivers against ambitious goals
- Ensure all monetization systems meet the highest standards for safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance
Other
- Have 7+ years of experience managing high-performance engineering teams in fast-paced, rapidly shifting environments
- Care deeply about people leadership, coaching, and helping engineers achieve peak performance
- Bring strong product intuition and can work across Product, Design, and Research to shape new user experiences
- Communicate clearly, think holistically, and make decisions grounded in both user needs and long-term sustainability
- This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
