Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering

The role

You will lead an engineering team responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operation of OpenAI's cross-platform client foundation. This includes managing platform capabilities across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team
• Define and execute a multi-year client-platform strategy and roadmap
• Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, and application delivery
• Guide architecture and engineering tradeoffs across services and infrastructure
• Establish goals, ownership, planning, and design reviews
• Raise reliability and security through observability and staged rollouts
• Partner with Security, IT, Research, Applied, and Product teams
• Balance security controls with developer velocity and employee experience
• Use metrics to steer investment and communicate impact

Required qualifications

• Built and led teams that owned secure, reliable, mission critical services and infrastructure at scale
• Delivered internal platforms, tooling, and services that improved reliability, security, and employee experience
• Made sound software and infrastructure engineering decisions at scale
• Raised production readiness through direct technical review of architecture, automation, code, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational tradeoffs
• Operated infrastructure with material security or identity risk
• Built inclusive teams
• Committed to joining the team's engineering on call rotation after ramp up

Nice to have

• Deep endpoint expertise
• Deep experience with one or more client-platform tool ecosystems such as Jamf, Intune, Android Enterprise, FleetDM/osquery, Munki/AutoPkg, or Linux configuration management
• Experience building internal platforms or services for app delivery, device posture/trust, onboarding, notifications, workflow orchestration, or fleet telemetry
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes/containers, service orchestration, and large-scale observability
• Experience partnering with security, compliance, or privacy teams in high-assurance environments
• Experience supporting research, developer, robotics, hardware-lab, or other specialized computing environments
• A record of contributing to open-source tooling, engineering communities, or cross-company technical standards

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.