Engineering Manager, RL Systems

About the Team

The RL team drives the core reasoning paradigm and has created groundbreaking innovations such as O1 and O3. We focus on pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning research, building next-generation generative models, and deploying them at scale. As the leader of this team, you will help shape the future of reasoning by building new large-scale ML training infrastructure and playing a pivotal role in major research roadmaps and decision-making processes.

About the Role

• Lead a Higher-Caliber Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of ML infrastructure experts focused on designing and building large-scale systems for reinforcement learning training.

• Architect Scalable Training Platforms: Oversee the creation and optimization of distributed systems that handle massive amounts of data, ensuring robust performance and reliability.

• Embed with Research: Collaborate closely with the core reasoning research team to integrate novel approaches and breakthroughs into production pipelines.

• Ensure Operational Excellence: Define, implement, and maintain best practices for development, deployment, monitoring, and quality assurance across ML training infrastructure.

• Drive Technical Roadmaps: Contribute to and influence the overall technical direction of RL research, prioritizing key infrastructure investments to enable cutting-edge science.

We Are Looking For:

• Passion for AI and Research: Genuine enthusiasm for advancing the frontiers of AI/AGI research, with a strong desire to help shape the future of reasoning.

• Technical Expertise: Proven track record of leading world-class teams in large-scale distributed system design for ML training.

• Leadership: Ability to define and translate a broad vision into ambitious, actionable milestones that energize teams; experience in leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams.

• Collaboration & Communication: Exceptional ability to build strong, productive partnerships across cross-functional teams. Skilled at navigating diverse perspectives, fostering alignment, and driving innovation to achieve organizational goals.

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. 

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