Data Engineering Manager at OpenAI

San Francisco, California, United States

OpenAI Logo
$405,000 – $490,000Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in data engineering, including significant leadership experience building and scaling high-performing teams
  • Successfully built or scaled modern data platforms and pipelines in high-growth, dynamic environments
  • Passionate about building trustworthy, secure, and operationally excellent data systems
  • Skilled at partnering across technical and non-technical teams to drive meaningful product and business outcomes
  • Comfortable leading through ambiguity and setting technical strategy in rapidly evolving environments
  • Strong technical expertise in one or more programming languages commonly used in data engineering (e.g., Python, Scala, Java)

Responsibilities

  • Build, manage, and grow a diverse, high-performing Data Engineering team
  • Define and deliver the data strategy for major product and business domains
  • Guide data architecture and infrastructure decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and trustworthiness
  • Partner closely with teams across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, and Research to understand data needs and deliver impactful solutions
  • Develop robust, secure, and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion, transformation, and delivery
  • Champion data quality, governance, and privacy practices that uphold OpenAI’s highest standards

Skills

Data Pipelines
Data Architecture
Data Infrastructure
Scalability
Reliability
Analytics
Data Strategy
ETL
Data Modeling
Team Leadership

OpenAI

Develops safe and beneficial AI technologies

About OpenAI

OpenAI develops and deploys artificial intelligence technologies aimed at benefiting humanity. The company creates advanced AI models capable of performing various tasks, such as automating processes and enhancing creativity. OpenAI's products, like Sora, allow users to generate videos from text descriptions, showcasing the versatility of its AI applications. Unlike many competitors, OpenAI operates under a capped profit model, which limits the profits it can make and ensures that excess earnings are redistributed to maximize the social benefits of AI. This commitment to safety and ethical considerations is central to its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) serves all of humanity.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$18,433.2MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
Mental healthcare service
Fertility treatment coverage
401(k) with generous matching
20-week paid parental leave
Life insurance (complimentary)
AD&D insurance (complimentary)
Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
Optional buy-up life insurance
Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
Annual learning & development stipend
Regular team happy hours and outings
Daily catered lunch and dinner
Travel to domestic conferences

Risks

Elon Musk's legal battle may pose financial and reputational challenges for OpenAI.
Customizable ChatGPT personas could lead to privacy and ethical concerns.
Competitors like Anthropic raising capital may intensify market competition.

Differentiation

OpenAI's capped profit model prioritizes ethical AI development over unlimited profit.
OpenAI's AI models, like Sora, offer unique video creation from text descriptions.
OpenAI's focus on AGI aims to create AI systems smarter than humans.

Upsides

OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding boosts its AI research and computational capacity.
Customizable ChatGPT personas enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
OpenAI's 'Operator' AI agent could revolutionize workforce automation by 2025.

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