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Engineering Manager, Model Flywheel

Lead engineering efforts to enhance ChatGPT model capabilities through improved experimentation, safe deployment, measurement systems, and multi-tier experiences. Requires proven leadership in scaling AI or large backend production systems with cross-functional collaboration.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Elevate and consolidate ChatGPT’s harness, context management, and system prompt frameworks.
  • Drive expansion and improvement of multi-tier model experiences.
  • Support and scale self-serve experiment capabilities and automated guardrails.
  • Lead model rollout automation, capacity management, and health monitoring.
  • Shape end-to-end measurement systems (evals, grader signals, user feedback, etc.).

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading engineering teams in complex, cross-functional environments.
  • Demonstrated success shipping production systems at scale (ideally for AI or large backend services).
  • Deep understanding of model-driven product development, deployment lifecycle, and measurement tooling.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills—experience interfacing directly with engineering, research, and product stakeholders.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Prior involvement with large language models, distributed infrastructure, or experimentation platforms.

Skills

LLMs, Model Deployment, Experimentation Platforms, Distributed Infrastructure, Ai Systems, Measurement Tooling, Evaluation Systems, Capacity Management, Health Monitoring

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