# IC Agentic Engineering Manager - Stargate

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $293k – $490k/yr
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Platform Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, LLMs, Agents, SRE, Telemetry, Observability, Automation, Kubernetes, Infrastructure As Code, Prometheus, Grafana, Python
**Posted:** 2026-03-31

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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