Applied AI Engineer Codex Core Agent
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and refine agent behavior for real-world coding tasks and long-horizon workflows. You will develop evaluations, investigate production failures, improve prompting and tool-use strategies, build feedback and data systems, and shape user-facing agent experiences with research, infrastructure, and product partners.
Requirements
- Experience building or shipping machine learning or LLM-powered products
- Python
- Modern ML tooling
- Experience with model evaluation, fine-tuning, or prompt design
Responsibilities
- Design and iterate on agent behaviors for coding tasks and long-horizon workflows
- Develop and run evaluations for performance, regressions, failure modes, and edge cases
- Improve performance through prompting, tool-use strategies, context construction, and model-facing experimentation
- Analyze production failures and improve robustness and reliability
- Build feedback loops and data systems for evaluation and research
- Shape user-facing agent experiences and interfaces
- Define quality standards for end-to-end complex agent tasks
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families
- Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees or up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, paid office closures, and paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided
