Engineering Manager, Rosalind Workbench

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 401,000 - 536,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Rosalind Workbench team and its infrastructure. You will hire and develop engineers, set technical direction, and translate ambitious roadmaps into reliable releases.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring architecture review and difficult problem-solving across product, design, research, and customer-facing teams. You will work with engineers to ensure reproducible scientific workflows, build instrumentation, and align work across teams

Qualifications

• Have experience managing engineering teams that ship and operate complex software products.
• Bring strong software engineering fundamentals and the technical judgment to work across user-facing applications, backend services, data systems, and compute infrastructure.
• Have helped turn early prototypes or research capabilities into reliable products used by external customers.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the engineering team. Hire strong engineers, coach technical leaders, provide clear feedback, and establish ownership and accountability across product and infrastructure work.
• Drive technical planning and delivery. Translate scientific and customer needs into scoped milestones. Make explicit tradeoffs, resolve dependencies, and keep a small team focused as the product and research agenda evolve.
• Shape the Workbench architecture. Guide development across scientific interfaces, agent and tool orchestration, local and remote compute, durable execution, and persistent project state.
• Make scientific work inspectable and reproducible. Preserve the inputs, versions, results, and decisions behind an analysis.
• Own engineering quality in production. Establish testing, release practices, observability, and an effective on-call process.
• Coordinate across teams and partners. Align with Codex on shared platform capabilities and with customer-facing engineers on deployment needs.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Rosalind Workbench team and its infrastructure. You will hire and develop engineers, set technical direction, and translate ambitious roadmaps into reliable releases.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring architecture review and difficult problem-solving across product, design, research, and customer-facing teams. You will work with engineers to ensure reproducible scientific workflows, build instrumentation, and align work across teams