# Engineering Manager, Artifacts

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $347k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** full-stack engineering, frontend engineering, backend engineering, Infrastructure, model integration, System Design, Code Review, Debugging, rendering systems, storage systems, reliability engineering, Machine Learning, product engineering, research collaboration, ai-native products
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Leads and grows the engineering team building AI-native artifacts such as documents, spreadsheets, slides, and dashboards. The role sets technical direction across product, infrastructure, rendering, storage, reliability, and model integration while partnering closely with research and product teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and grow a team building AI-native artifact creation experiences across documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, and emerging artifact formats.
- Set technical direction across full-stack product systems, generation orchestration, editing and rendering surfaces, storage, reliability, and model integration.
- Own hands-on architecture, code review, debugging, system design, and critical product decisions.
- Partner with research teams to translate model capabilities, training needs, evaluations, and behavioral insights into shipped product improvements.
- Work with product, design, infrastructure, and safety partners to define excellent artifact creation experiences.
- Create the engineering plan for the team, including hiring, execution milestones, technical investments, and operating cadence.
- Balance near-term product velocity with long-term platform quality, reliability, extensibility, and developer productivity.
- Debug complex failures across model behavior, product surfaces, infrastructure, latency, and user-facing quality.
- Expand the team’s scope from familiar artifact types into new forms of AI-native work products.

## Requirements
- Experience leading engineering teams while remaining technically close to the work.
- Strong full-stack product engineering fundamentals across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and model-facing systems.
- Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where product, model capability, and technical architecture are evolving.
- Experience partnering with research, machine learning, product, design, infrastructure, or data teams.
- Strong judgment about product-specific systems versus reusable platform foundations.
- Clear communication, fast learning, and sufficient technical depth to raise the bar for the team.
- Care for craft, quality, latency, reliability, and user experience.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: $347,000–$405,000

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