IC Agentic Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Design and build agent-based systems to support infrastructure deployment and operations
• Identify high-impact opportunities to apply agents to workflows such as cluster bring-up, incident triage, and capacity management
• Lead a small team while contributing directly as an individual contributor to system design, development, and integration
• Partner with infrastructure, hardware, and networking teams to integrate agentic systems into production workflows
• Develop systems that leverage telemetry, logs, and system signals to enable closed-loop automation
• Define evaluation frameworks to measure system effectiveness, reliability, and operational impact
• Drive iteration from prototype to production, ensuring robustness and scalability

Requirements

• Strong software engineering background in distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Experience building production automation systems or data-driven operational tooling
• Experience applying AI, ML, or agent-based approaches to real-world systems or workflows
• Ability to operate as a hands-on IC while leading a small team
• Experience working cross-functionally with infrastructure, hardware, or systems teams
• Strong problem-solving skills in complex, ambiguous environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with LLM-based systems, agents, or autonomous workflows
• Background in infrastructure operations, SRE, or large-scale system deployment
• Experience working on cluster bring-up, debugging, or data center infrastructure systems
• Familiarity with telemetry, monitoring systems, and observability pipelines
• Experience building internal tools or platforms for engineering productivity and operations

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees
• Daily meals in our offices and meal delivery credits
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Relocation support for eligible employees

About the Company

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.