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📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are hiring a talented Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead Snowflake’s System Under Test (SUT) team, responsible for evolving how Snowflake engineers test the Snowflake product locally and at scale in CI. The SUT empowers Snowflake engineers by delivering a reliable, low-latency and cost-efficient developer experience across a high-growth, high-demand surface area. As the TLM for SUT, you will lead a small and highly technical team at the intersection of CI, developer infrastructure, and product engineering. You will set direction, drive execution, and partner broadly across Engineering Systems and product teams to deliver a more reliable, faster, and more maintainable test platform for Snowflake’s engineers. In this role, you will: Lead, coach, and grow the SUT team while creating a high-energy, cohesive environment with strong planning, ownership, and career development. Own the roadmap and execution for SUT rollout across development environments, CI and AI workflows. Drive measurable improvements in startup reliability, latency, and cost, using clear SLOs, dashboards, and operational metrics to guide decisions and raise the bar on execution. Serve as the technical anchor for the SUT domain, shaping architecture and guiding the evolution from legacy systems to a composable

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are building the next generation of advertising in an immersive metaverse. Our team sits at the core of the Roblox Ads ecosystem, serving billions of impressions while providing the critical infrastructure that connects global brands with our massive community of creators. We are seeking a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to drive the technical strategy and lead the execution of the Ads Experience team. This team is responsible for the full spectrum of our monetization experience, including Advertiser Experience (Roblox Ads Manager), Brand Experience (Brand Ads & Integrations), and Publisher Experience (Creator Monetization & Commerce). This is a foundational leadership challenge beyond standard ad-tech. As a TLM, you will be responsible for both the technical vision of our high-scale monetization backbone and the growth and management of a high-performing engineering team. You will pioneer AI integration and balance a three-sided marketplace economy in real-time while fostering a culture of technical excellence. You Will Drive Technical Strategy: Act as the technical authority for the Ads Experience team. Translate ambitious busi

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $295.3K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Engineering Manager, Home Infrastructure The Home Infrastructure team builds the mission-critical backend and data systems that power Roblox’s Homepage and Experience Details Page, two of the highest-traffic surfaces on Roblox. These surfaces reach the vast majority of Roblox’s daily active users and are core drivers of discovery, engagement, retention, and platform growth. We are a full-stack product infrastructure team responsible for content distribution across Roblox. Our systems support multiple modes of user interaction, including exploratory browsing, directed discovery, and personalized content recommendations across the many types of content that make up the Roblox ecosystem. This team sits at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, machine learning-powered personalization, data infrastructure, and product experimentation. We partner closely with Machine Learning, Data Science, Product, Design, Frontend, Ads, Marketplace, Virtual Economy, and other teams across Roblox to build the platforms that help users find the most relevant and engaging content. As Engineering Manager for Home Infrastructure, you will lead a team of Backend and Data Engineers responsible for the e

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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. We are looking for a Security Operations Lead (SOC Lead) to build, mature, and operate our 24/7 detection and response capabilities across a modern cloud-native and AI-driven environment. This role leads the global SOC function—monitoring, SIEM ownership, detection engineering, alert triage, and operational readiness—while also evaluating and integrating emerging AI-based SOC products and autonomous response platforms . You will oversee monitoring across multi-cloud environments (GCP primary, AWS/Azure secondary), Kubernetes, SaaS services, endpoints, developer tools, and AI workloads . You’ll collaborate closely with Cloud Security, Compliance/GRC, SRE, Platform Engineering, IT/Endpoint teams, and AI Infrastructure to ensure our detection strategy scales and stays ahead of evolving threats. This is a hands-on leadership role perfect for someone who wants to shape the SOC of the future while solving complex challenges in a high-scale AI setting. What You’ll Do SOC Leadership & 24/7 Monitoring Lead, mentor, and scale a global SOC team responsible for 24/7 monitoring, alert intake, triage, correlation, and escalation. Build operational rigor: processes, runbooks, SLAs, metrics, and quality standards for high-scale environments. Cover monitoring across: Cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Kubernetes/GKE/EKS/AKS clusters SaaS platforms (Google Workspace, GitHub, Slack, Okta, etc.) Endpoints (macOS, Linux, Windows) including EDR/XDR telemetry Developer platforms + CI/CD pipelines AI/ML systems and model-serving workflows AI-Based SOC Integration & Innovation Evaluate, adopt, and integrate AI-native SOC technologies for triaging, detection, and correlation Identify opportunities to automate triage, investigations,

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the role We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models—before incidents occur. This is a builder’s role: you’ll lead engineers shipping production services, detection pipelines, and mitigation mechanisms that protect frontier model integrity and reduce high-severity misuse risk. While this work intersects with frontier model development, security and risk, we’re explicitly seeking someone with a software engineering foundation who is comfortable building reliable systems that can operate at billions of users scale. In this role you will: Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model misuse, with an emphasis on model IP protection / distillation detection and emerging risk surfaces from autonomous agents. Set the technical roadmap and execution strategy: prioritize, design, ship, iterate, measure impact. Build production systems: services, pipelines, tooling, instrumentation, and automation that scale with frontier model usage. Partner deeply with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into concrete tests, signals, and mitigations that can be deployed at scale. Drive strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence. Hire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains as needed. Anticipate what breaks at scale as agentic workflows become more capable. You might thrive in this role if you: Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments Are comfortable with ambiguity and novelty Have experience adjacent to security (e.g., abuse prevention, fraud, integrity, platform defense, auth/identity, malware/spam, adversarial environments) Communicate clearly and build trust quickly with senior stakeholders—pragmatic, collaborative, and calm under scrutiny. Significant experience

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team We’re hiring Software Engineers to join our broader Infrastructure organization, which supports multiple high-impact teams. Depending on your interests and experience, you could work on one of several focus areas—including Core Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Observability, Developer Productivity or Cloud Infrastructure. About the Role All teams are deeply collaborative, work on mission-critical services, and are responsible for building distributed, scalable infrastructure to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to understand infrastructure, data and compute needs, setting the technical strategy that supports cutting-edge research and product development. This is a critical role for someone who is passionate about solving complex engineering problems at scale, ensuring their performance, scalability and reliability Team Focus Areas Distributed Systems: Owning and building important, highly scalable, available, performant, and reliable distributed systems (and their building blocks) to power the entire stack at OpenAI Systems Engineering: Work across layers of the stack—debugging system bottlenecks, evolving core infrastructure, and solving novel problems in performance and scalability. Reliability Engineering: Build scalable, fault-tolerant systems and lead efforts around service health, incident response, and resilience. Observability: Design and maintain observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing) to give teams visibility into production systems at scale. Developer Productivity: Create tools, environments, and workflows that help engineers ship high-quality software faster and more safely. Cloud Infrastructure: Own the cloud-native infrastructure (compute, networking, storage) that underpins all services and research workloads. Databases: Building high performance, distributed database systems that power all of OpenAI's product stack. In this

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI's research training infrastructure powers how our frontier models are trained and evaluated. The Simulation team sits at the intersection between the agentic harness that powers OpenAI's products and the research infrastructure where GPT-next is trained, ensuring that our model's training environment is as realistic as possible. This team owns the integration layer that connects our production harness capabilities into the training stack. The work is highly cross-functional and high leverage: researchers depend on it to run experiments and evaluations reliably as well as to develop the next generation of harness capabilities. Failures in this surface can materially affect training velocity and correctness. About the Role We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of the Simulation Platform. You'll own a critical interface between research and engineering, building the systems, APIs, and operational patterns that let researchers use agentic coding infrastructure safely and effectively in training environments. This role is ideal for a senior backend or infrastructure engineer with strong technical judgment, product sense for highly technical users, and the ability to drive execution across multiple teams. The highest-leverage work is building robust infrastructure that supports and accelerates research without compromising engineering quality. In this role, you will Design, build, and evolve the integration between the Codex harness that powers OpenAI's products and research training infrastructure used for training GPT-next Build a platform for our LLMs to train and be evaluated in simulated environments that mimic their deployment setting as closely as possible, on every axis: agentic harness, compute substrate, timing, tools, data sources, humans in the loop, and more Own major integration surfaces end-to-end, from architecture and API design through rollout, operations, and long-term maintenance Bu

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Applied organization brings OpenAI’s most advanced technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the APIs that power a growing ecosystem of developer and enterprise applications. Data Engineering builds and operates the trustworthy, secure, and reliable data systems that power decisions across OpenAI. About the Role We’re looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead the Growth & Revenue data engineering team. This leader will own the data strategy and execution for the data subject areas spanning growth accounting across all product surfaces, product partnerships, checkout, billing, payments, revenue, and monetization, helping OpenAI understand how people adopt, engage with, and pay for our products. You will partner closely with several Data Science, Business, and Engineering partners to connect product behavior to trustworthy subscriber, payment, and revenue measurement. In this role, you will: Build, manage, and grow a high-performing, inclusive team across the Growth & Revenue data subject areas. Define the data strategy for all the data subject areas you own. Deliver durable, well-modeled data products that connect product behavior, subscription state, checkout events, payment outcomes, and revenue. Establish trusted metric definitions and data quality standards so product, growth, finance, and executive leaders can make fast, consistent decisions. Partner with Data Science and Product teams to support experimentation, causal measurement, funnel analysis, and scalable self-serve analytics. Partner with Finance and Financial Engineering to ensure analytical revenue views reconcile to financial truth and production billing systems. Raise operational excellence for critical pipelines, including reliability, observability, privacy, governance, and incident response. Set a clear roadmap, make principled tradeoffs, and communicate progress and risk across technical and business stakeholders. You might thrive in this role if yo

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The Growth Platforms team builds the systems and operating foundations that help OpenAI grow responsibly. We partner across the product portfolio to connect customer signals, identity and consent, campaign workflows, measurement, and product experiences into an AI-enabled growth engine. Our work helps teams launch, learn, and scale with a high bar for data quality, privacy, reliability, and customer trust. About the Role We’re looking for an experienced marketing technology and operations leader to drive cross-functional work at the intersection of growth, measurement, data, and automation. Your mission will be to turn fragmented tools, signals, and workflows into reliable, measurable, AI-enabled capabilities that teams can use safely at scale. You’ll work across Growth, Marketing Operations, Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Security, Privacy, Legal, and Revenue Operations, as well as external advertising platforms, measurement providers, and implementation partners. You’ll translate business requirements and privacy constraints into data contracts, integration designs, rollout plans, and reliable first-party data systems. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who brings structure to ambiguity and moves from event schemas, APIs, and data quality assurance to operating cadences, partner enablement, and executive updates. This role is based in San Francisco or New York City with a hybrid office expectation. In this role, you will: Own the operating model for Growth’s marketing technology stack across identity, consent, audiences, activation, measurement, and experimentation. Own and operate the complete paid-media tracking and measurement system, including website pixels, server-to-server conversion events, mobile measurement integrations, identity and consent controls, attribution methods, and timely signal delivery to advertising platforms. Design and implement event schemas, data mappings, APIs, and integrations; valid

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the team The Applied team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the role: We're seeking a Data Engineer to take the lead in building our data pipelines and core tables for OpenAI. These pipelines are crucial for powering analyses, safety systems that guide business decisions, product growth, and prevent bad actors. If you're passionate about working with data and are eager to create solutions with significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. This role also provides the opportunity to collaborate closely with the researchers behind ChatGPT and help them train new models to deliver to users. As we continue our rapid growth, we value data-driven insights, and your contributions will play a pivotal role in our trajectory. Join us in shaping the future of OpenAI! In this role, you will: Design, build and manage our data pipelines, ensuring all user event data is seamlessly integrated into our data warehouse. Develop canonical datasets to track key product metrics including user growth, engagement, and revenue. Work collaboratively with various teams, including, Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research to understand their data needs and provide solutions. Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing. Participate in data architecture and engineering decisions, bringing your strong experience and knowledge to bear. Ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of data according to industry and company standards. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 3+ years of experience as a data engineer and 8+ years of any software engineering experience(including data engineering). Proficiency in at least one programming language commonl

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📍 Seattle, Washington, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Statsig team at OpenAI builds and operates the experimentation platform that powers product development, measurement, and decision-making across the company. We partner closely with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure experiments are trustworthy, statistically rigorous, and scalable to the needs of frontier AI products. Our mission is to help teams make better decisions through reliable experimentation. We care deeply about statistical correctness, pragmatic solutions, and building systems that researchers and engineers can trust at massive scale. The team operates at the intersection of experimentation methodology, data infrastructure, causal inference, and product analytics. We are looking for experienced experimentation experts who want to shape the future of experimentation in the AI era. About the role: We're seeking a Data Engineer to take the lead in building our data pipelines and core tables for OpenAI. These pipelines are crucial for powering analyses, safety systems that guide business decisions, product growth, and prevent bad actors. If you're passionate about working with data and are eager to create solutions with significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. This role also provides the opportunity to collaborate closely with the researchers behind ChatGPT and help them train new models to deliver to users. As we continue our rapid growth, we value data-driven insights, and your contributions will play a pivotal role in our trajectory. Join us in shaping the future of OpenAI! In this role, you will: Design, build and manage our data pipelines, ensuring all user event data is seamlessly integrated into our data warehouse. Develop canonical datasets to track key product metrics including user growth, engagement, and revenue. Work collaboratively with various teams, including, Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research to understand their data needs and provide solutions. Implement ro

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Integrity team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that our cutting-edge technology is not only revolutionary, but also secure from a myriad of adversarial threats. We strive to maintain the integrity of our platforms as they scale. The Integrity team is at the front lines of defending against misuse in all its forms: content abuse, scaled attacks, and other actions that could undermine the user experience or harm our operational stability. About the Role As a Machine Learning Engineer in OpenAI's Integrity team, you will have the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in AI. You’ll work on state-of-the-art models and classifiers, experiment with new architecture and approaches, and push forward our abilities in content and user understanding. You’ll help turn research breakthroughs into tangible solutions that improve the trust and safety of our platform. If you're excited about training LLMs and building ML models, this role is your chance to make a significant mark. In this role, you will: Innovate and Deploy: Design and deploy advanced machine learning models that solve real-world problems. Bring OpenAI's research from concept to implementation, creating AI-driven applications with a direct impact. Collaborate with the Best: Work closely with researchers, software engineers, and product managers to understand complex business challenges and deliver AI-powered solutions. Be part of a dynamic team where ideas flow freely and creativity thrives. Optimize and Scale: Implement scalable data pipelines, optimize models for performance and accuracy, and ensure they are production-ready. Contribute to projects that require cutting-edge technology and innovative approaches. Learn and Lead: Stay ahead of the curve by engaging with the latest developments in machine learning and AI. Take part in code reviews, share knowledge, and lead by example to maintain high-quality engineering practices. Make a Difference: Monitor and maintain deployed m

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team: OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Our API is the industry's most widely adopted AI platform, empowering startups, indie developers, and Fortune 500 companies alike. Through multimodal APIs—spanning real-time interactions, text-to-speech (TTS), speech generation, and image generation—we enable users to harness the full potential of diverse AI modalities effectively and at scale. About the Role: We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our multimodal API product suite. Your team will be responsible for delivering innovative APIs across real-time processing, speech transcription, speech generation, and image creation. You will own the product roadmap for how we evolve our multimodal API offerings, and you will build the products that allow developers to reach millions of end users through AI audio, video, and images. In this role, you will: Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on multimodal API products – including our realtime API, our transcription models (Whisper), our speech generation models (TTS), and our image generation APIs (DALLE and native 4o). Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define the strategic vision and product roadmap. Work closely with our research teams to improve our core multimodal models for API customer use cases. Guide technical and architectural decisions, emphasizing scalability, robustness, and user experience. Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability within your team. Qualifications: Proven experience managing engineering teams that deliver complex, high-quality products at scale. Strong technical background and proficiency in modern software engineering practices and system architecture. Excellent collaboration and communication skills to effectively coordinate across diverse teams and stakeholders. Familiarity with or strong interest in multimoda

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team We bring OpenAI's technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our systems. In this role, you'll apply deep technical expertise to optimize infrastructure and application-level performance across mission-critical products like ChatGPT and our developer API. You’ll work cross-functionally with teams building core services, training models, and developing real-time user experiences to push our latency, throughput, and cost-efficiency to the next level. We are looking for engineers who thrive in ambiguous environments, value deep systems understanding, and are motivated by delivering measurable impact. This is a highly technical, individual contributor role focused on root-cause analysis, profiling, instrumentation, and architecture-level performance improvements across our stack. In this role, you will: Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers—networking, storage, Python runtime, GPU utilization, and beyond. Develop tooling and metrics that provide deep observability into system performance. Collaborate closely with infra, platform, training, and product teams to identify key performance goals and drive systemic improvements. Influence architecture and design decisions to prioritize latency, throughput, and efficiency at scale. Lead investigations into high-impact performance regressions or scalability issues in production. Drive performance testing strategies and help define SLAs/SLOs around latency and throughput for critical systems. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong tr

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📍 Seattle, Washington, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the team The ChatGPT Library team is building the persistence layer that helps people and organizations collaborate with increasingly capable AI systems. ChatGPT Library provides users with a durable place for their files, context, and creations, forming a substrate between humans and agents—a foundation for AI that can remember, retrieve, and act on the right context over time. The team sits within the Personalization organization and partners closely with product, design, research, model, and infrastructure teams. Its work helps models become a useful second brain for individuals—for example, answering questions such as “What did I work on last week?”—and supports enterprise use cases that turn company knowledge into accessible, actionable context. About the role We are looking for a hands-on engineering manager to lead a team of approximately 9–10 engineers and own execution across the product roadmap. This is a technical leadership role for someone who can set a high product bar, build a strong team, shape architecture, and contribute directly when needed. You will form and translate an ambitious product vision into a focused roadmap and help the team ship reliable, intuitive experiences at the intersection of AI, knowledge, and collaboration. The ideal candidate leads by example. You are comfortable moving between people leadership, product decisions, technical design, and code. Founder or early-stage startup experience is especially valuable because the role requires urgency, sound judgment under ambiguity, and a willingness to operate across boundaries. In this role you will • Lead, coach, and grow a team of approximately 9–10 engineers while creating clarity, accountability, and a healthy execution rhythm. • Own the engineering roadmap for Library, working with product and design partners to prioritize the highest-impact problems. • Set a high bar for product quality, technical excellence, reliability, privacy, and user trust. • Provide hands-on techni

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