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Engineering Manager, ChatGPT Search Infrastructure

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the team building foundational systems for ChatGPT search, connecting models with real-time information sources to deliver timely, relevant, and trustworthy answers.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager, Search Infrastructure

Builds

Shared platforms and abstractions enabling product teams to independently develop, evaluate, and launch search-powered experiences

Domain

AI / Large-scale Infrastructure / Search Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Technical leadership for senior engineers, architectural decision-making, cross-functional partnership, platform engineering, system design, operational excellence, ambiguity management

Preferred skills

Experience with high-scale infrastructure and online serving, backend infrastructure expertise, AI-powered product development, model/prompt integration knowledge, shared platform development, service objective definition

Technologies

Search orchestration, APIs, model integration, serving infrastructure, experimentation platforms, distributed systems

Responsibilities

Define technical strategy and roadmap for search infrastructure, lead and develop experienced engineering teams, partner with Post-Training and Search Quality teams, build reusable platforms with automated guardrails, evolve end-to-end search architecture with Inference and Retrieval teams, uphold high availability and low latency service objectives, establish engineering practices for testability and incident prevention

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management

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