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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

IC Agentic Engineering Manager - Stargate

Leads development of agent-based systems for large-scale AI infrastructure operations, including deployment, triage, and capacity management. Hands-on IC role managing small team, requiring strong distributed systems and AI/ML experience in complex environments.

293k – 490k
On-siteEngineering Management

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and build agent-based systems to support infrastructure deployment and operations
  • Identify high-impact opportunities to apply agents across workflows such as:
    • cluster bring-up and deployment readiness
    • incident triage and root cause analysis
    • system validation and health monitoring
    • capacity management and operational decision-making
  • Lead a small team while contributing directly as an IC across system design, development, and integration
  • Partner with infrastructure, hardware, and networking teams to integrate agentic systems into production workflows
  • Develop systems that leverage telemetry, logs, and system signals to enable closed-loop automation
  • Define evaluation frameworks to measure system effectiveness, reliability, and operational impact
  • Drive iteration from prototype to production, ensuring robustness and scalability

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering background in distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering
  • Experience building production automation systems or data-driven operational tooling
  • Experience applying AI, ML, or agent-based approaches to real-world systems or workflows
  • Ability to operate as a hands-on IC while leading a small team
  • Experience working cross-functionally with infrastructure, hardware, or systems teams
  • Strong problem-solving skills in complex, ambiguous environments

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with LLM-based systems, agents, or autonomous workflows
  • Background in infrastructure operations, SRE, or large-scale system deployment
  • Experience working on cluster bring-up, debugging, or data center infrastructure systems
  • Familiarity with telemetry, monitoring systems, and observability pipelines
  • Experience building internal tools or platforms for engineering productivity and operations

Skills

Distributed SystemsPlatform EngineeringAIMachine LearningLLMsAgentsSRETelemetryObservabilityAutomationKubernetesInfrastructure As CodePrometheusGrafanaPython

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