Engineering Manager, Inference Engine

About the Team

The Inference Engine team builds and scales the inference infrastructure powering OpenAI’s research and production models. Our mission is to ensure high availability, performant, and cost-effective utilization of AI models at scale. We manage all OpenAI GPU-related code and infrastructure, enabling seamless execution of AI workloads.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead our inference engine team, overseeing key technical designs and operations to deliver high-performance inference capabilities.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and scale a team of engineers across multiple domains in the model inference.

• Define and execute a technical roadmap to optimize inference engine performance, flexibility and scalability.

• Define and achieve goals to efficiently serve AI models with an emphasis on GPU workload optimization, and inference performance.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical solutions meeting research and business goals.

• Provide strong technical leadership, driving best practices in execution and collaboration.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are highly technical.

• Have 10+ years of experience in ML model training, serving, infrastructure or Performance Engineering, with 5+ years in management.

• Possess deep expertise in LLM inference systems and distributed computing.

• Have experience in GPU kernel programming or optimization.

• Have experience in close collaboration with ML researchers.

• (Nice to have) Have experience in performance engineering.

• Thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and ambitious goals, with the ability to work closely with technical and research stakeholders.

• Have experience leading high performing teams with a focus on scaling and fostering a culture of inclusion and performance.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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