Engineering Manager, Networking

About the Team

The Platform Networking team is responsible for the collective communication stack used in our largest training jobs. Using a combination of C++ and CUDA we work on novel collective communication techniques that enable efficient training of our flagship models on our largest custom built supercomputers.

The models we train are key ingredients to the AI research progress at OpenAI and the field as a whole, and we continually incorporate learnings from our entire research org into our training platform.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager, Networking, you will lead a world‑class team focused on building and optimizing the performance‑critical systems that power OpenAI’s largest training runs.

We’re looking for someone with a strong technical background in low‑level systems work who is excited to step into a full‑time management role.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will :

• Manage a highly senior team that develops the communication and systems software behind OpenAI’s largest training workloads.
• Collaborate closely with ML research and infrastructure teams to ensure system priorities align with evolving model needs; grow and support engineers on your team through mentorship, project alignment, and performance development.
• Prioritize across projects and maintain visibility into incoming research demands to keep critical training infrastructure ahead of bottlenecks.

You might thrive in this role if you :

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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