Engineering Manager, API Multicloud

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid workplace

Salary: $325K–$405K annually, plus equity.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building and safely deploying general-purpose artificial intelligence products.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, grow, and recruit a high-performing engineering team responsible for OpenAI's API infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.
• Define the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for the API Multicloud platform.
• Drive architecture and execution for distributed systems supporting API routing, model serving, and cloud infrastructure across CSP environments.
• Partner with inference, API, infrastructure, security, Safety Systems, and CSP engineering teams to launch models and expand platform capabilities.
• Own platform reliability, performance, operational excellence, capacity planning, infrastructure efficiency, and deployment improvements.
• Set priorities, navigate ambiguity, and balance near-term delivery with long-term technical investments.

Requirements

• Experience leading, building, and developing high-performing engineering teams responsible for large-scale cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including the ability to make architectural decisions and guide senior engineers.
• Experience building and operating production infrastructure on major cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives from architecture through production launch and ongoing operations.
• Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, performance optimization, and infrastructure efficiency in large-scale production environments.
• Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent while fostering technical excellence, ownership, and execution.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience influencing technical direction across engineering teams and external partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI infrastructure, inference systems, or model serving.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in San Francisco.
• Work with inference, API, infrastructure, security, Safety Systems, and cloud service provider engineering teams.
• Focus on ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, continuous improvement, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.