Engineering Manager, Cooperative Systems

About the Position

Engineering Manager, Cooperative Systems

San Francisco

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About the Team

The Cooperative AI team is scaling OpenAI with groundbreaking advancements. We are building a model-powered, scaled automated workforce and knowledge system that evolves and learns alongside a human workforce. By leveraging state-of-the-art models and technologies, we develop systems that reason and work autonomously for a wide variety of operational tasks.

We leverage real workloads for critical systems across finance, sales, customer support, integrity, product insights, internal operations, and more. This proximity allows us to iterate quickly, validate impact in real time, and accelerate impactful learnings and system builds.

We are a highly multidisciplinary, self-contained team focused on transforming the workplace via smart systems, knowledge, scalable, and reliable primitives that apply world-class AI capabilities across domains. Our mission is to learn fast and transform how humans collaborate with AI at scale.

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Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a small team building applied AI systems for internal operations
• Design and build AI-powered automation systems in close proximity to customers
• Stay hands-on in architecture and implementation across the full stack
• Develop evolving systems spanning developer tools, automation platforms, knowledge graphs, and data systems
• Deploy systems directly to internal users and close customers to iterate rapidly based on real-world feedback
• Engage frequently with scaled workforces to understand needs and validate solutions
• Create systems for visibility and learning in hybrid workforces
• Partner with product, research, and ops teams daily

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Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in engineering, including 3+ years of experience in engineering management, and at least 7 years as an IC engineer
• Hands-on builder who enjoys operating across the stack
• Deep experience applying AI, and ready to experiment with frontier approaches
• Strong technical judgment across systems design, infrastructure, and full-stack development
• Experience in building developer tools, internal platforms, or workflow automation systems
• Enjoy frequent interaction with customers and thrive in feedback-driven development loops
• Comfortable with ambiguity and excited to operate in a rapidly evolving space
• Experience in operationally complex environments (e.g., logistics, support systems, internal tooling, warehouse automation, etc.)

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About the Company

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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