Posted on September 5, 2024
About the Team
The ChatGPT Research Acceleration team works closely with our research, engineering, product, and design teams to deliver model improvements for our users. We build the systems and tools that empower our researchers and engineers to rapidly, safely, and easily ship new models.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced tech lead/manager (TLM) to lead one of the teams within the ChatGPT Research Acceleration team. Our focus is to increase research productivity across OpenAI, thereby accelerating progress towards AGI. Better tooling will significantly improve our throughput of testing out new ideas.
In this role, you will:
Lead and manage a diverse, inclusive, high-performing engineering team
Build systems and tools that increase our research deployment velocity and help develop our technical roadmap and prioritization
Contribute meaningful amounts of code
Ensure projects are on track, your team is utilized effectively, and core engineering needs are continuously addressed
You might thrive in this role if you:
Are a seasoned technical leader, with 8+ years experience in the industry, and 2+ years in engineering management
Are experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that reliability and scalability are considered in the design and development of new systems and tools
Are willing to 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.
Excited to do hands-on technical work but equally excited to lead technical teams to peak performance
Can create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think
Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
As a bonus, understand of AI/ML workloads
This role is based in our San Francisco office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
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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