Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI's Client Platform Engineering (CPE) team builds trusted, cross‑platform client foundation across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux. The Engineering Manager will lead a high‑performing team, shape multi‑year strategy, review architecture, and create operating mechanisms that translate ambiguous needs into durable platform outcomes.

This role sits at the intersection of security, reliability, developer velocity, and employee experience, collaborating across partners to raise the bar

Job description

About the Team OpenAI’s Client Platform Engineering (CPE) team delivers trusted devices at scale: secure by default, reliable by design, and effortless to use. We own platform capabilities across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, spanning endpoint posture and device trust, application delivery, onboarding, updates, telemetry, workflow orchestration, and employee-facing remediation. The team partners deeply with Security, Research, Applied, and specialized engineering groups to enable and protect OpenAI while reducing friction for the people advancing our mission.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager for CPE, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operation of OpenAI’s cross-platform client foundation. You will combine people leadership with strong technical judgment: setting direction, developing engineers, reviewing architecture and tradeoffs, and creating the operating mechanisms that turn ambiguous needs into durable platform outcomes. This is a high-leverage role at the intersection of security, reliability, developer velocity, and employee experience. CPE is a highly technical platform engineering organization delivering first-party services, automation, observability, and safe fleet operations. We’re looking for a leader who can guide its next chapter, scaling the team and its systems, partnering across the company, and raising the bar for secure, reliable, low-friction experiences across every supported platform.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team; hire thoughtfully, coach engineers, create clarity, and foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture that pushes perceived limits.
• Define and execute a multi-year client-platform strategy and roadmap across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, including how Codex and agents can reshape employee computing.
• Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, application delivery, device onboarding, updates,