Engineering Manager, Cooperative Systems

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 401,000 - 445,000 annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Technical judgment","Hands-on execution","Leadership","Feedback-driven development","Comfort with ambiguity"]

Lead a small engineering team building AI-powered automation systems for OpenAI’s Cooperative AI. You’ll design and implement applied AI that learns from humans and runs real operational workloads across finance, sales, support, and IT. Stay hands-on across architecture and full-stack development, deploy directly to internal users, and use fast customer feedback to iterate and evolve scalable automation, knowledge, and data systems.

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Engineering Manager, Cooperative Systems

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Job Summary

Lead a small engineering team building AI-powered automation systems for OpenAI’s Cooperative AI. You’ll design and implement applied AI that learns from humans and runs real operational workloads across finance, sales, support, and IT. Stay hands-on across architecture and full-stack development, deploy directly to internal users, and use fast customer feedback to iterate and evolve scalable automation, knowledge, and data systems.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and grow a small team building applied AI systems for internal operations
  • •Design and build AI-powered automation systems in close proximity to customers
  • •Stay hands-on in architecture and implementation across the full stack
  • •Develop evolving systems spanning developer tools, automation platforms, knowledge graphs, and data systems
  • •Deploy systems directly to internal users, gather feedback, and iterate based on real-world inputs

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 401,000 - 445,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years in engineering management and at least 7 years as an IC engineer
  • •Hands-on builder comfortable operating across the stack
  • •Deep experience applying AI and experimenting with frontier approaches
  • •Strong technical judgment across systems design, infrastructure, and full-stack development
  • •Experience building developer tools, internal platforms, or workflow automation systems
Experience:12+ yearsAIWorkflow automationDeveloper tools
Skills:Technical judgmentHands-on executionLeadershipFeedback-driven developmentComfort with ambiguity

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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