Engineering Manager, ChatGPT Space

We Love AI Jobs; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 401,000 - 445,000; Full time

Job summary

We Love AI Jobs is hiring an Engineering Manager for ChatGPT Space in San Francisco. You will lead the product engineering team building a collaborative workspace where teams and AI agents create and edit work products.

This role blends product direction, full-stack systems, and model integrations while developing engineers and partnering with Product, Design, Research, and infrastructure teams. The role is based in San Francisco with hybrid work.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product engineering teams and developing engineers
• Ability to set technical direction across frontend, backend, and model-facing systems
• Strong collaboration with Product, Design, Research, and Infrastructure teams

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop the product engineering team.
• Set technical direction for full-stack and model-facing systems.
• Partner with Product, Design, Research, and Infrastructure teams to deliver reliable releases.
• Establish a high bar for editor quality, latency, and reliability.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Frontend systems

Backend systems

Editing and rendering systems

Model integration

Collaboration systems

Product engineering

Reliability and performance

Job description

# Engineering Manager, ChatGPT SpaceOpenAISan Francisco (Hybrid)Full-time$401,000 – $445,000 / yearAI tools:ChatGPTUpload your resume once and Scout applies for youApply with ScoutShare this job:LinkedInXSave imageYou’ll lead the engineering team building ChatGPT Space, a collaborative workspace where teams and agents create and edit work products. The role spans product direction, full-stack systems, and model integrations, while developing engineers and working with Product, Design, Research, and infrastructure teams.* Permanent* Hybrid### Skills and expertiseFull-stack engineeringFrontend systemsBackend systemsEditing and rendering systemsModel integrationCollaboration systemsProduct engineeringReliability and performance### Key responsibilities* Lead, grow, and develop the product engineering team building ChatGPT Space.* Set technical direction for creation, editing, collaboration, and model-facing systems.* Partner with Product, Design, Research, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable releases.## How this job comparesCompared with 203 open manager engineering jobs on October 10, 2026.Pay: This job pays $401K to $445K a year. The 113 open manager engineering jobs that publish US pay start at $199K on average, so this job starts about 102% higher.Similar open jobs: We Love AI Jobs lists 203 open manager engineering jobs at 92 companies.Remote work: This job is hybrid. 31 of the 203 manager engineering jobs (15%) are remote.AI in this role: Medium. The role uses AI tools and works with AI systems as a regular part of the job. The team builds a product for collaboration between people and AI agents and integrates models into its editing and creation experiences. The manager’s work also covers broader product engineering and team leadership.## Full descriptionAbout the TeamThe ChatGPT Space team is rethinking what work looks like when teams and agents can create together. We are building a shared workspace where a rough idea can become a polished, editable artifact, from Pages, Sheets, and Slides to entirely new kinds of work products.Our ambition is to build the best place for teams and agents to turn ideas into things they could not make alone. The work should keep evolving after the first draft, drawing on shared context, improving through collaboration, and staying current as a project moves forward.This is a high-agency team working across product, design, and research. We partner closely with model training teams to shape how frontier models create and edit artifacts, then bring those capabilities into a coherent experience across Pages, files, and tools. The work spans full-stack product engineering, editing and rendering systems, model integration, and collaboration, with a high bar for taste, correctness, and speed.About the RoleAs Engineering Manager, ChatGPT Space, you will lead and grow the product engineering team defining this experience. You will help shape both the product and the team that builds it, turning an ambitious, evolving vision into software people love to use.You will partner with product and design on what great collaboration between teams and agents should feel like, with research on what models can create, and with infrastructure and enterprise partners on a dependable experience at scale.This is a role for a leader who has built from zero to one and wants to help define a new category of work. You will bring the technical depth to guide hard decisions and the product judgment to know what is worth building, while developing engineers and giving them the clarity and autonomy to ship.This role is based in San Francisco.In this role, you will• Lead, manage, and grow a product engineering team, creating clear ownership, supporting engineers’ development, and hiring exceptional people• Partner with product and design to shape the ChatGPT Space roadmap and translate user needs into focused, well-crafted releases• Lead the development of creation, editing, and collaboration experiences for teams and agents, including tools that connect project context and keep work up to date• Set technical direction for full-stack product systems, editing and rendering surfaces, and model-facing integrations• Partner closely with research teams on artifact tools, model behavior, training needs, and evaluations, turning improvements in model capability into better products• Establish a high bar for editor quality, correctness, latency, and reliability, and use user feedback and evaluation results to guide improvements• Work with infrastructure and enterprise partners to deliver dependable experiences, align interfaces and ownership, and resolve problems across team boundaries• Balance new product development with the technical investments and operational discipline needed to sustain quality as the product grows• Build an effective operating cadence that keeps a fast-moving team aligned and gives engineers the context and autonomy to do their best workYou might thrive in this role if you• Have a track record of leading engineering teams and helping engineers grow while delivering excellent products• Have built products from zero to one and can turn an ambiguous opportunity into a clear direction and practical execution plan• Bring strong product judgment and design taste, with a deep interest in how teams and agents create, edit, and collaborate• Have strong full-stack engineering fundamentals and can guide technical decisions across frontend, backend, and model-facing systems• Work effectively with product, design, research, and infrastructure partners, building alignment without losing momentum• Care deeply about craft, performance, correctness, and reliability, and can help a team improve all four while moving quickly• Communicate clearly, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and adapt as user needs and model capabilities evolve