Engineering Manager, Sensitive Deployments

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for complex, high-impact deployments of OpenAI technology in sensitive environments
• Own end-to-end delivery outcomes across prototype, pilot, production launch, and ongoing operation
• Partner directly with senior customer stakeholders, technical teams, and implementation partners to scope work and remove blockers
• Set and maintain a high bar for architecture, code quality, testing, observability, reliability, security, and operational readiness
• Translate field learnings into reusable tools, playbooks, reference architectures, and product requirements
• Serve as a technical escalation point for deployments where ambiguity or mission sensitivity is high
• Coach engineers on technical judgment, customer communication, and prioritization

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience
• 4+ years of experience managing high-performing engineers
• Experience leading customer-facing, forward-deployed, platform, infrastructure, or security teams
• Experience working with government, defense, intelligence, public sector, or regulated customers
• Strong technical depth in full-stack software, cloud infrastructure, APIs, data systems, and security
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages
• Understanding of deployment models involving Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and identity/access controls

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.