Engineering Manager, AI-Native Artifacts

AI Chopping Block; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager, Artifacts, to lead a team building AI-native artifact creation experiences across documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, and emerging formats. You will set technical direction across full-stack systems and oversee architecture, debugging, and product decisions.

You will partner with research, product, design, and infrastructure to translate model capabilities into shipped improvements while balancing velocity with long-term platform quality 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 is seeking an Engineering Manager, Artifacts, to lead a team building AI-native artifact creation experiences across documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, and emerging formats. You will set technical direction across full-stack systems and oversee architecture, debugging, and product decisions.

You will partner with research, product, design, and infrastructure to translate model capabilities into shipped improvements while balancing velocity with long-term platform quality and