IC Agentic Engineering Manager - Stargate

About the TeamOpenAI’s Stargate Infrastructure team is building and operating the systems that power next-generation AI workloads at massive scale. This includes deploying and managing clusters, networks, and data center infrastructure across first-party and partner environments.As the scale and complexity of these systems grow, we are investing in agentic systems and intelligent automation to improve how infrastructure is deployed, operated, and debugged. This team focuses on applying AI-driven approaches to real-world infrastructure workflows—enabling faster execution, higher reliability, and scalable operations.About the RoleWe are seeking an IC Agentic Engineering Manager to lead the development and application of agent-based systems for infrastructure delivery and operations within Stargate.This is a player-coach role: you will contribute directly to system design and implementation while leading a small team. You will focus on applying agentic systems to infrastructure workflows such as deployment orchestration, system bring-up, issue triage, debugging, and capacity management.This role is not focused on building general-purpose agent platforms. Instead, it is centered on applying agentic systems to solve concrete infrastructure problems, working closely with hardware, networking, and cluster teams.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and build agent-based systems to support infrastructure deployment and operationsIdentify high-impact opportunities to apply agents across workflows such as:cluster bring-up and deployment readinessincident triage and root cause analysissystem validation and health monitoringcapacity management and operational decision-makingLead a small team while contributing directly as an IC across system design, development, and integrationPartner with infrastructure, hardware, and networking teams to integrate agentic systems into production workflowsDevelop systems that leverage telemetry, logs, and system signals to enable closed-loop automationDefine evaluation frameworks to measure system effectiveness, reliability, and operational impactDrive iteration from prototype to production, ensuring robustness and scalabilityQualificationsStrong software engineering background in distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform engineeringExperience building production automation systems or data-driven operational toolingExperience applying AI, ML, or agent-based approaches to real-world systems or workflowsAbility to operate as a hands-on IC while leading a small teamExperience working cross-functionally with infrastructure, hardware, or systems teamsStrong problem-solving skills in complex, ambiguous environmentsPreferred SkillsExperience with LLM-based systems, agents, or autonomous workflowsBackground in infrastructure operations, SRE, or large-scale system deploymentExperience working on cluster bring-up, debugging, or data center infrastructure systemsFamiliarity with telemetry, monitoring systems, and observability pipelinesExperience building internal tools or platforms for engineering productivity and operationsAbout 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