# Aline C.

> Exploration Project Manager @ OpenAI | Frontier AI, Discovery & Innovation

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alinec

I focus on the development and application of artificial intelligence, dedicated to exploring the real-world value of model capabilities, data-driven decision-making, and intelligent systems. My work encompasses AI project planning, technology assessment, cross-team collaboration, and innovation exploration, with expertise in translating complex technologies into actionable solutions.

In the rapidly evolving AI industry, I continuously monitor future trends in large models, agents, multimodal systems, and automation, driving technology from concept to scalable product and business impact through experimentation, validation, and practical application.

If you are interested in AI R&D, product innovation, or application opportunities, please feel free to contact me—let's explore the next generation of intelligent technologies together.

## Work Experience
### Explore Project Manager @ OpenAI
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, USA
Responsible for driving exploratory projects in cutting-edge AI technologies, model architectures, and new product directions, managing the entire process from research hypothesis development to experimental validation, and ensuring that the research results are consistent with OpenAI's long-term technical roadmap.

Work closely with research scientists, engineers, product managers, and the security team to identify high-potential AI areas, including model capability extensions, multimodal technologies, agent behavior, security alignment, and inference optimization.

### Explore Project Management Manager @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Responsible for driving the entire process of the company's early-stage discovery/exploration projects, from opportunity identification and proof-of-concept to implementation, ensuring that project direction aligns with organizational strategy.

Develop project plans, milestones, risk assessments, and resource allocation to ensure timely and high-quality progress of projects in the exploration phase, while flexibly responding to uncertainties and changes.

### Explore Project Manager @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Take full responsibility for the project lifecycle, from opportunity assessment, hypothesis design, experiment planning, resource coordination to execution, ensuring alignment with business and user experience goals.

Conduct in-depth market and competitive analysis, leveraging user research, behavioral data, A/B testing, and insights from Google Analytics, BigQuery, and internal machine learning tools to identify new growth opportunities.

### ASIC Design Leader @ Seiko Epson Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Shanghai, China
I defined IP and SOC architectures. I led multiple SOCs design, verification and a Xilinx FPGA Platform designed for EPSON global design sites. I designed and verified IPs including DMA Controller, Nand Flash Controller, DRAM Controller, AHB Bus Matrix, ECC, 8-bit CPU, SPI, I2C, UART and etc.

### LCD Design Manager @ Seiko Epson Corporation
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Shanghai
I set up the LCD design team leading the team to design and support LCD products for China and Asian customers. The team improved the global LCD design efficiency by 80% through developing automation softwares.


## Education
### Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
New York University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alinecalzadesouza

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Last updated: 2026-04-13