Engineering Manager, AI-Native Artifacts

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI’s Artifacts team is building the AI-native creation layer for documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, dashboards, reports, analyses, and new interactive work products. The Engineering Manager, Artifacts, will lead and grow a team of full‑stack and infrastructure engineers, shaping architecture and driving critical product decisions in a fast‑moving environment.

This role sits at the intersection of product engineering, research, and infrastructure, partnering with researchers and

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team building AI-native artifact creation experiences across documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, and emerging artifact formats.
• Set technical direction across full-stack product systems, generation orchestration, editing and rendering surfaces, storage, reliability, and model integration.
• Responsible for hands-on architecture, code review, debugging, system design, and critical product decisions.
• Partner closely with research teams to translate model capabilities, training needs, evals, and behavioral insights into shipped product improvements.
• Work with product, design, infrastructure, and safety partners to define what excellent artifact creation should feel like for users.
• Create the engineering plan for the next phase of the team, including hiring, execution milestones, technical investments, and operating cadence.
• Balance near‑term product velocity with long‑term platform quality, reliability, extensibility, and developer productivity.
• Debug complex failures across model behavior, product surfaces, infrastructure, latency, and user-facing quality.
• Help expand the team’s scope from familiar artifact types into new forms of AI-native work.

Job description

OpenAI’s Artifacts team is building the AI-native creation layer for documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, dashboards, reports, analyses, and new interactive work products. The Engineering Manager, Artifacts, will lead and grow a team of full‑stack and infrastructure engineers, shaping architecture and driving critical product decisions in a fast‑moving environment.

This role sits at the intersection of product engineering, research, and infrastructure, partnering with researchers and