TLM, Machine Learning, API

Company: OpenAI
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 18, 2025

Job Description:

Our team brings OpenAI's most capable technology to the world through our developer platform: the OpenAI API. As the leading AI development platform, our API is used by millions of developers and the majority of enterprises around the world, and powers the majority of AI applications that you may use on a daily basis.API launches innovative features by leveraging research technology like:Tool calling during the chain-of-thoughtImage GenerationThe API TLM role ensures OpenAI's API customers have access to the world's best-performing and most capable AI models by leading the development of innovative training and deployment techniques, mentoring a high-performing ML engineering team, and translating cutting-edge research into powerful, practical AI solutions. You will manage Machine Learning Engineers that drive specific customer outcomes by developing robust, scalable implementations of cutting-edge models, closely collaborating with research teams, and writing production-ready code to integrate the models into reliable and performant APIs.In this role, you will:Architect and build next-generation system protections, directly contributing through hands-on design, model training, and deployment strategies.Lead and manage a small, senior team of Machine Learning Engineers, empowering them with clear direction and autonomy. Support your team's professional growth and maintain high performance through mentorship and clear career progression.Collaborate closely with Research, Safety, Product, and Policy teams to leverage existing tools and drive cutting-edge advancements.Establish robust evaluation frameworks and metrics, clearly measuring progress and identifying areas for improvement.Proactively improve developer productivity by resolving technical challenges and providing strategic leadership.You might thrive in this role if you:Bring extensive hands-on experience managing machine learning teams building developer-facing platforms, APIs, or tools that support real-world AI product deployment at scale.Have successfully trained, fine-tuned, or distilled LLMs and traditional ML models to solve real-world business problems.Enjoy being deeply involved technically-actively designing solutions, training models, and guiding deployment processes alongside your team.Excel at collaborating across teams to integrate existing tools and thoughtfully architect new solutions.Possess strong emotional intelligence, empathy, and the ability to effectively connect with colleagues.Embrace ambiguity and rapidly changing circumstances as opportunities to create clarity, structure, and impactful solutions.About OpenAIOpenAI 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.We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link .At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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