Product Manager, Core Models: AI Platform & Launch

OpenAI; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Product Manager for the Core Models team in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model (3 days in office) and relocation assistance. You will define model requirements and research priorities, bridging research, engineering, and product surfaces to bring capabilities from prototypes into the mainline model and launch stack.

You will collaborate with research, engineering, and data science to build evaluation loops, define success metrics, and drive product decisions across

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in product management or closely related experience with ownership of technically complex products or platforms.
• Fluency in domains such as search and information retrieval, recommendation or personalization systems, ML platforms, large-scale data systems, model evaluation, or AI product infrastructure.
• Ability to pair offline evaluation with online experimentation and user signals, and distinguish a useful metric from a convenient one.

Responsibilities

• Translate user and product goals into clear model requirements, system architecture choices, and research priorities across query understanding, indexing, retrieval, ranking, tool boundaries, data, training, inference, and evaluation.
• Build closed learning loops that turn product usage, explicit feedback, and other user signals into datasets, evaluations, experiments, training priorities, and launch decisions.
• Define success across offline evaluations and online product metrics, balancing model quality, usefulness, latency, safety, reliability, and cost.
• Partner closely with post-training research, applied product engineering, Model Design, and Data Science to integrate capabilities into the mainline model stack.
• Create reusable platforms and operating systems for evaluation, experimentation, and signal collection so that new capabilities improve faster over time.
• Use concrete product failures and emerging user needs to identify gaps, form hypotheses, and shape the next wave of research and product investment.

Skills

Product management

Technical ownership

Information retrieval

Recommendation systems

ML platforms

Model evaluation

AI product infra

Offline vs online evaluation

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Product Manager for the Core Models team in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model (3 days in office) and relocation assistance. You will define model requirements and research priorities, bridging research, engineering, and product surfaces to bring capabilities from prototypes into the mainline model and launch stack.

You will collaborate with research, engineering, and data science to build evaluation loops, define success metrics, and drive product decisions across