About the role We are building a higher education researcher motion that helps funded labs adopt OpenAI across core research workflows. This role will develop relationships with principal investigators, researchers, research software engineers, research computing teams, and university technology leaders, then translate high-value use cases into sustained Pro, Codex, API, and ChatGPT Edu usage. This is a hybrid business development and program management role. You will identify and qualify priority labs, design phased access and fellows programs, run pilots, remove technical and institutional blockers, and create repeatable paths from individual researchers to lab- and institution-level adoption. Additionally, this role will launch and manage a community of researchers with events, communications and support. In this role, you will: Build a pipeline of funded labs, research centers, and technical champions at priority R1 universities; qualify opportunities based on workflow value, funding path, influence, and expansion potential. Run discovery with researchers and university stakeholders to understand workflows, data and security needs, procurement constraints, and success criteria. Design and operate phased access and fellows programs, including eligibility, selection, offer mechanics, onboarding, office hours, community programming, and pilot goals. Translate research workflows into effective use of Pro, Codex, API, and ChatGPT Edu in partnership with Solutions, Product, and Education account teams. Manage pilots end to end, remove trust, funding, and technical blockers, and drive measurable activation, retention, and expansion. Turn early usage into product feedback, workflow documentation, peer proof, case studies, and repeatable enablement. Build clear handoffs and expansion paths from researcher to lab to institution; track fellow selection, activation, retained usage, workflow proof, conversion, and expansion. You might thrive in this role if you: Relevant exp
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We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who is ready to lead through ambiguity and improve how software gets built at MongoDB. This role leads teams focused on developer productivity, with an emphasis on measurable improvements to the software development lifecycle. This role can be based remotely in the United States. The Team The AXIS team (AI, X-functional tools, Insights, and Signals) sits within Developer Productivity and is responsible for overseeing the metrics and observability infrastructure of our expansive developer environment to help build a strong data-driven culture. You’ll also be a key partner in building the agentic ecosystem for AI-driven development across engineering. Candidate Profile We’re looking for an experienced leader with a passion for solving the big challenge of measuring developer productivity and providing the actionable signals that help teams improve their performance. They should be comfortable working collaboratively with other leaders and partners across our Engineering and Data teams in maximizing the use of data for insights and AI enablement. The right candidate for this role will have 4+ years of experience managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, growth planning, and compensation; required for external candidates and preferred for internal candidates 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems; experience in developer tooling, platform engineering, observability, or data engineering is a strong plus Demonstrated the ability to lead through ambiguity, work across team boundaries, and deliver outcomes without close supervision Strong customer orientation and sound judgment in finding practical, high-leverage solutions Experience working with systems involving analytics, data pipelines, and metrics platforms Experience with AI tools development and enablement efforts Strong technical judgment, including the ability to evaluate t
About the Team At OpenAI, we are dedicated to building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) to benefit all of humanity. Our mission attracts the world’s top talent in science, engineering, and business to address one of the most ambitious challenges of our times. The Recruiting team is at the heart of this mission, tasked with identifying and hiring exceptional individuals who align with OpenAI's values and cultural ambitions. Our approach to recruitment aims to set the standard for excellence and innovation in the field, connecting outstanding candidates with opportunities to impact the future of AI. About the Role As a Senior Technical Sourcer at OpenAI, you will play a key role in identifying and engaging top-tier engineering talent across a broad range of technical domains. Your focus will be on sourcing exceptional software engineers and technical talent to help build world-class teams advancing our mission in AI research and deployment. In this role, you will: Lead sourcing strategies to identify and engage candidates across a variety of engineering disciplines, including software engineering, backend systems, product engineering, and related technical areas. Develop and maintain a strong pipeline of passive candidates through proactive outreach, research, and networking. Collaborate closely with hiring managers and technical leaders to deeply understand hiring needs and refine sourcing approaches accordingly. Leverage advanced sourcing techniques and tools to identify and attract exceptional talent. Represent OpenAI at industry events and conferences to promote our mission and connect with potential candidates. Maintain accurate and organized candidate data and metrics to inform sourcing strategies and decision-making. You might thrive in this role if you have: 5+ years of experience in technical sourcing, with a focus on engineering or technical roles. A proven track record of successfully sourcing candidates across a range of software engineering and
From $2.3M/yr
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. The Grid Service and Platform Engineering team is looking for a highly motivated and collaborative Software Engineering Manager. This role involves leading the engineering of mission-critical, tier 0 service infrastructure, the foundational data platform that powers Smartsheet at scale. You will oversee services that handle millions requests per day, operate at 99.999% availability, and deliver low-latency, high-throughput performance for millions of customers worldwide. We are an agile team that operates iteratively, focused on building high-quality software and adhering to rigorous operational best practices across complex, cross-functional distributed systems. This full-time position reports to the Director, Engineering and can be located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer. You Will: Manage one or more related teams of 6–10+ software engineers, driving development of tier 0 grid services and platform infrastructure that millions of customers depend on daily. Own and uphold 99.999% service availability targets across critical platform services, embedding reliability engineering, incident management, and on-call rigor into team culture. Help architect and guide technical vision to evolve low-latency, high-throughput service platforms capable of sustaining millions requests per day with predictable, consistent performance under load. Guide and mentor engineers on distributed systems architecture, scalability patterns, and platform best pr
About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives—from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming—all aimed at mitigating misuse, misalignment, and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency. Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI’s benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations. About the Role We are hiring a Product Manager to focus on risk related to multimodal models. In this role, you will drive initiatives which ensure that OpenAI’s audio, image, and video deployments are safe, impactful, and aligned with user needs and technical innovation. You will clarify strategic priorities, develop safety-focused product roadmaps, and collaborate closely with AI researchers, software engineers, policy experts, and cross-functional partners. This role suits a proactive, technically skilled product manager adept at adversarial thinking and excited to tackle challenging, ambiguous problems through structured analysis and collaborative decision-making. This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with relocation assistance available. In this role, you will: Partner closely with AI research, engineering, data science, policy teams, and other stakeholders to embed safety throughout the development and deployment of multimodal AI models - such as GPT-Live and ChatGPT Images - as well as multimodal capabilities in frontier AI models. Develop comprehensive frameworks for understanding and mitigating deployment safety risks, drawing on data analysis, expert consultation, and adversarial assessments. Define strate
$192K – $335K/yr · Jobiba est.
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. Location: Bellevue, WA Engineering Manager, Cost Intelligence We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Cost Intelligence engineering team. In this role, you will own the technical vision and execution for the features and systems that help Snowflake customers understand, monitor, and optimize their Snowflake consumption and spend. You will lead a talented team of engineers building the data products, APIs, and platform services that power cost visibility, usage analytics, budgeting, and cost optimization insights across Snowflake's platform. You'll work closely with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and cross-functional engineering teams to ship world-class cost intelligence capabilities to Snowflake's customer base. As manager for the Cost Intelligence team, you will: Lead and grow our talented team of software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning. Drive the roadmap for Cost Intelligence features — including cost allocation, resource budgeting, anomaly detection, and optimization recommendations — in partnership with product management. Set technical strategy for backend systems, data pipelines, and APIs that surface cost and usage insights to customers at massive scale. Own delivery end
From $280.5K/yr
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. As a Senior Product Manager in Engineering Acceleration , you will define the vision and strategy for how software engineers work at Roblox. Your mission is to ensure that Roblox engineers spend more time building the metaverse and less time managing infrastructure complexity in your areas of responsibility. The Engineering Acceleration portfolio includes Source Control, Testing, Secure Software Supply Chain Management, Continuous Deployment, and Observability among many others. In this role, you will primarily own the developer experience for Continuous Deployment, Testing , and Observability , while remaining adaptable as organizational priorities evolve. AI has been transforming how we approach these systems. We’re already leveraging AI to test our software and to identify and diagnose production incidents. The successful candidate here will bring deep expertise not only in the software development lifecycle, but crucially also on the rapidly evolving landscape of AI tooling. This is a rare opportunity for an infrastructure product leader to drive meaningful impact at scale across a very large engineering organization. You Will: Define and drive the long-term visi
From $192K/yr
As Engineering Manager for Threat Detection, you will lead a high-performing team that powers Datadog's detection program. Threat Detection is the organization responsible for keeping Datadog ahead of an evolving threat environment: closing coverage gaps faster, raising the bar on signal quality, and shipping detections that hold up under the scale and complexity of cloud-native infrastructure. Your team will combine direct detection expertise, platform engineering, and applied AI to ship detections at a pace and scale traditional rule-writing alone cannot match. Examples of what your team will work on include detection-authoring agents, the detection platform that powers every rule in production, coverage analysis, alert triage and response automation, and the evaluation infrastructure that holds these systems to a high bar of fidelity. Detection authorship is a shared responsibility across the organization, and your team will contribute both by building the systems that scale our authoring capacity and by writing detections directly when their domain expertise is the right tool. You will partner closely with our Security Incident & Response Team (SIRT), Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), AI Engineering teams, and Datadog's broader Security organization. This is a high-impact leadership role: you will grow a team of security and software engineers responsible for building and executing our detection and AI strategy. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Datadog Security's shift to AI-accelerated detection and response. Drive development of high-fidelity detections as a shared responsibility across the organization, ensuring your team's systems and direct contributions raise the bar on coverage and
From $189.3K/yr
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . The Conversion Visibility Modeling team enables a performant ads marketplace and helps prove value to advertisers by connecting Pinterest onsite activity with conversions that happen offsite (both digital and physical) in a privacy-preserving way. As a Machine Learning Engineering Manager on this team, you will lead a hybrid team of ML engineers and backend software engineers to build end-to-end identity and conversion visibility solutions across modeling, serving, and data infrastructure, so advertisers retain accurate, privacy-aware performance visibility as signals fragment and degrade. You will set the technical direction for high-impact ML systems that feed ranking, bidding, measurement, and reporting across Pinterest’s ads stack. What you’ll do: Attract, hire, develop, and lead a hybrid team of ML engineers and backend softwar
$192K – $335K/yr · Jobiba est.
As an Engineering Manager on Coder’s Core Workspaces team, you’ll lead engineers building and evolving the systems behind our agentic development experience. You’ll help make agents more capable, reliable, and useful across real development environments. You’ll guide technical direction while growing the team and keeping execution sharp. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, and Design across the agent harness, integrations, and developer workflows. What you’ll do here Lead and grow a team within our Workspaces organization. Set technical direction across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows. Stay close to the code and contribute to architecture and implementation decisions. Evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows. Extend our provider-agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change. Partner with Product and Design to turn agent capabilities into useful developer experiences. Improve reliability, performance, and operability across agentic systems. Coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and create clarity around priorities and tradeoffs. What we’re looking for Experience managing and growing software engineering teams. Strong hands-on engineering experience with React and TypeScript . Experience with Go . Hands-on experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows. Experience with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops. Strong distributed systems knowledge. Working knowledge of AWS . Strong technical judgment and comfort working through ambiguity. A track record of helping engineers grow while maintaining a high execution bar. Bonus tacos if you have Experience building coding agents, developer tools, or cloud development environments. Experience with MCP , agent tools, or multi-agent systems. Experience with remote execution, sandboxing, or isolated compute. Experience building abstractions across multiple model providers. Deep experience with AWS, Kube
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We’re looking for Software Engineering Interns to help build and scale the systems that power Datadog’s observability and security platform. Interns contribute directly to real-world engineering challenges across backend, frontend, infrastructure, data engineering, and developer tooling while working alongside experienced engineers and mentors. You’ll help design, build, and improve systems that process and analyze massive volumes of metrics, logs, and application data in real time. Whether you’re interested in distributed systems, Kubernetes, AI-powered products like Bits AI, or developer platform tooling, you’ll work on meaningful projects that deliver impact to customers at global scale. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Contribute to production systems that process and analyze large-scale observability and application data in real time Build and improve distributed systems across backend infrastructure, developer platforms, and cloud-native services Help identify and solve performance, reliability, and scalability challenges in critical services supporting Datadog’s growing customer base Own and deliver technical projects from design through deployment with support from experienced engineers and mentors Develop technical expertise through hands-on experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure Collaborate with fellow interns, mentors, and engineers while building software that delivers impact at global scale Who You Are: Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience Targeting a 2028 full-time start date Demonstrate strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures,
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. About the role: Join our engineering team for a 12-week paid internship where you'll work alongside world-class engineers, designers, and product managers to build the future of software creation. You'll contribute to real features that impact millions of developers worldwide, from our AI-powered development environment to the infrastructure that makes lightning-fast collaboration possible. This isn't just about learning—you'll ship meaningful code that helps democratize software creation. Whether you're optimizing our cloud infrastructure, building intuitive developer tools, or enhancing our AI agents, your work will directly empower creators around the globe. You will: Ship real features to millions of developers using Replit's platform Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, designers, product managers, and AI researchers Build and optimize developer experiences that make coding accessible to everyone Work on cutting-edge AI tools and infrastructure that power the next generation of software creation Learn from the best in an environment where your ideas are heard and often implemented Required skills and experience: Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field Have at least one semester of schooling remaining after the internship completion Proficient in at least one programming language and comfortable with full stack development Passionate about developer tools, AI, or making technology more accessible Thrive in fast-paced environments where you can move quickly and adapt to changing priorities What we value : Problem-solving mindset: Ability to approach complex operational challenges systematically and devise effective solutions Se
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We’re looking for Software Engineering Interns to help build and scale the systems that power Datadog’s observability and security platform. Interns contribute directly to real-world engineering challenges across backend, frontend, infrastructure, data engineering, and developer tooling while working alongside experienced engineers and mentors. You’ll help design, build, and improve systems that process and analyze massive volumes of metrics, logs, and application data in real time. Whether you’re interested in distributed systems, Kubernetes, AI-powered products like Bits AI, or developer platform tooling, you’ll work on meaningful projects that deliver impact to customers at global scale. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Contribute to production systems that process and analyze large-scale observability and application data in real time Build and improve distributed systems across backend infrastructure, developer platforms, and cloud-native services Help identify and solve performance, reliability, and scalability challenges in critical services supporting Datadog’s growing customer base Own and deliver technical projects from design through deployment with support from experienced engineers and mentors Develop technical expertise through hands-on experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure Collaborate with fellow interns, mentors, and engineers while building software that delivers impact at global scale Who You Are: Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience Targeting a 2028 full-time start date Demonstrate strong computer science fundamentals, including data struc
$200K – $270K/yr
About Ema Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs. We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale. Who you are We're looking for an innovative and passionate Machine Learning Engineers to join our team. You are someone who loves solving complex problems, enjoys the challenges of working with huge data sets, and has a knack for turning theoretical concepts into practical, scalable solutions. You are a strong team player but also thrive in autonomous environments where your ideas can make a significant impact. You love utilizing machine learning techniques to push the boundaries of what is possible within the realm of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and related Machine Learning technologies. Most importantly, you are excited to be part of a mission-oriented high-growth startup that can create a lasting impact. You will: Conceptualize, develop, and deploy machine learning models that underpin our NLP, retrieval, ranking, reasoning, dialog and code-generation systems. Implement advanced machine learning algorithms, such as Transformer-based models, reinforcement learning, ensemble learning, and agent-based systems to continually improve the performance of our AI systems. Lead the processing and analysis of large, complex datasets (structured, semi-structured, and
From $293.8K/yr
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. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to join our Engine UI team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development of our state-of-the-art game engine, building out User Interface capabilities across all of Roblox. No matter the platform, be it mobile, desktop or consoles, you will help enable our game developers to unlock, accelerate, and promote the creation of high quality, performant UI that empowers meaningful interaction. You Will: Lead the development on our C++ engine code that powers the foundational UI features in the world’s most popular games, as well as the Roblox App and Roblox Studio Take lead in authoring and reviewing API proposals to expose UI capability to Luau; our fast, Lua-derived scripting language that powers user-generated creation Manage Senior Engineers and provide technical guidance Work closely with our game developer community to help achieve their creative vision Have fun learning about what makes Roblox an amazing platform and place to work, while supplying to industry leading technologies You have: 8+ years of professional development experience and 5+ years of management experience Fluent programmin
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