Engineering Manager, ChatGPT Search Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for ChatGPT’s Search Infrastructure. You will set the technical and organizational direction for the systems that bring search capabilities into ChatGPT.

🏢 About OpenAI

OpenAI is a research laboratory that focuses on artificial intelligence. The company's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

🎯 The Role

You will guide architectural decisions across search orchestration, model and prompt integration, serving infrastructure, experimentation, observability, evaluation, and product integrations. You will balance immediate launch and product needs with the long-term reliability, scalability, latency, and maintainability of the platform.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for ChatGPT Search Infrastructure, spanning search orchestration, APIs, model and prompt integration, serving, experimentation, evaluation, observability, and product integrations.
• Lead and develop a team of experienced engineers, create meaningful ownership opportunities, and foster an inclusive, high-trust culture with clear accountability and high standards.
• Partner with Post-Training on model launches, A/B experiments, search-behavior evaluation, and prompt optimization, translating model improvements into production-ready product experiences.
• Build reusable platforms that enable Search product vertical teams to independently implement, test, and launch features, with automated guardrails that protect reliability, scalability, quality, and latency.
• Partner with Inference, Indexing, and Retrieval teams to evolve the end-to-end Search architecture, adapt serving optimizations, and improve product outcomes across the stack.

🎁 Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.