# Engineering Manager, Model Flywheel

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $293k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Model Deployment, Experimentation Platforms, Distributed Infrastructure, Ai Systems, Measurement Tooling, Evaluation Systems, Capacity Management, Health Monitoring
**Posted:** 2026-07-14

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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