About the Position

Engineering Manager, Library

Seattle

About the Team

The ChatGPT Library team is building the persistence layer that helps people and organizations collaborate with increasingly capable AI systems. ChatGPT Library provides users with a durable place for their files, context, and creations, forming a substrate between humans and agents-a foundation for AI that can remember, retrieve, and act on the right context over time.

The team sits within the Personalization organization and partners closely with product, design, research, model, and infrastructure teams. Its work helps models become a useful second brain for individuals-for example, answering questions such as “What did I work on last week?”-and supports enterprise use cases that turn company knowledge into accessible, actionable context.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and grow a team of approximately 9–10 engineers while creating clarity, accountability, and a healthy execution rhythm.
Own the engineering roadmap for Library, working with product and design partners to prioritize the highest-impact problems.
Set a high bar for product quality, technical excellence, reliability, privacy, and user trust.
Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews, prototyping, debugging, and coding when it will accelerate the team or unblock a critical path.
Build systems that allow AI products to persist, retrieve, and use personal and organizational context effectively.
Partner across Personalization, model, research, infrastructure, enterprise, and third-party integration teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences.
Navigate ambiguity, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and turn emerging AI capabilities into a clear product and engineering plan.
Hire exceptional engineers and develop technical leaders who can scale the team’s impact.

Requirements

Engineering Management: Experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams while remaining technically hands-on.
Technical Leadership: Strong software engineering foundation and comfortable contributing production code in a modern codebase.
Product Development: Built and shipped user-facing products with a high quality bar, ideally in fast-moving or zero-to-one environments.
AI Systems: Founder, startup, or early-stage product experience and know how to create momentum with limited structure.
Distributed Systems: Ability to reason about distributed systems, data persistence, retrieval, permissions, collaboration, and the product implications of AI-native architectures.
Communication: Communicate clearly across engineering, product, design, research, and executive stakeholders.
Balancing Direction and Delivery: Balance long-term technical direction with near-term delivery and know when to simplify, prototype, or invest for scale.

Nice to Have

Startup Experience: Experience in a startup or early-stage environment.
People Leadership: Strong people leadership skills.
Technical Design: Expertise in technical design.
Coding: Proficient coding skills.
Communication: Excellent communication skills.

We Offer

Competitive salary
Opportunity to shape the future of AI collaboration
Work with a team dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity

About the Company

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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Engineering Manager, Library

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