Engineering Manager, Production Inference

About the Team

The Production Inference team is responsible for delivering scalable, efficient, and reliable inference systems for OpenAI's production models, including ChatGPT, API, Search and many more products. Our mission is to provide inference solutions that empower various product teams to bring AI features to our customers and users efficiently and effectively.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead the Production Inference team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between our inference stack and production teams, ensuring seamless deployment of AI models, unlocking model capabilities, while maintaining high performance and reliability. As well as building inference systems that meet the need for both internal and external users. This position requires a seasoned leader with a pragmatic approach to applied AI.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with production teams to develop performant, reliable inference solutions for their products.

• Partner with research teams to bring their research work into production.

• Define and execute technical roadmaps to support model deployment and inference at scale.

• Provide strong technical leadership, focusing on applied AI solutions for product inference needs, while ensuring high-performing, collaborative team dynamics.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are highly technical.

• Have 10+ years of experience in ML model serving, ML infrastructure, or applied AI, with 5+ years in engineering management.

• Possess a strong background in ML inference, production AI systems, and distributed systems.

• Have experience in building high-scale, high-reliability production AI systems.

• Are an effective collaborator, capable of aligning technical, research and business stakeholders to drive impactful solutions.

• Have experience leading high performing teams with a focus on scaling and fostering a culture of inclusion and performance.

• Thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and ambitious goals, with the ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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