About the company
OpenAIās mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team is composed of PR/Media Relations, Events, Design, and other external-facing functions. The teamās ethos is to support OpenAI's mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI. The Events team is a dynamic group dedicated to crafting extraordinary experiences that encompass our company's values and mission. Our team is driven by a passion for bringing people together to connect in meaningful ways.
Job Summary
In this role you might:
šDirectly manage ICs / TLs on Human Data, a core part of the Research organization. You will collaborate with product managers, researchers, and the rest of our engineering team to create new data and tooling around emerging research capabilities and unsolved customer needs. šBuild and grow high performing teams in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure itās delivered with safety and reliability in mind. šBe responsible for the team that will architect, build, and design our tooling, infra, products, and evals that power our data collection and management platform, including collecting important training signals from products like ChatGPT, Dall-E, Sora, along with the key interfaces used by our AI human labelers. šIterate rapidly to improve user and developer experience both for our internal team as well as partner research teams while advancing scalability, performance, observability, and security. šUnderstand training and eval data needs from across all of OpenAI and research opportunities to improve our platform, and help develop our technical roadmap and prioritization. šHelp drive the high leverage projects for our team and ensure our team engagement is high and team, technical, and organizational blockers are resolved and milestones are delivered. šEnsure that our overall data collection platform is secure, scalable, highly available, and maximally useful. šThis 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.
You might thrive in this role if you:
šHold a Ph.D., M.S., or B.S. or other degree in computer science, AI, machine learning, or a related field. šHave experience being a hands-on individual contributor, while simultaneously managing a high performing team. šAre comfortable rolling up your sleeves to write code and be a major contributor to a project. šHave experience hiring, coaching, and inspiring senior engineers or other TLs. šAre willing to both own important problems end-to-end, but also have good delegation skills and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done. šAre strongly motivated by OpenAIās mission of building safe, universally beneficial AGI and are aligned with OpenAIās charter šStay goal-oriented instead of method-oriented, and are not afraid of tedious but high-value work when needed. šAre a team player who enjoys collaborative work environments.