Applied AI Engineer Codex

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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About the Role

You will lead customer engineering engagements from discovery through handoff. You will assess technical environments, build integrations and evaluation harnesses, establish quality and security guardrails, document outcomes, and use evidence to recommend whether customer workflows should expand, change direction, or stop.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in software development, deployment engineering, data or infrastructure engineering, technical consulting, or solutions architecture
  • Ability to build, debug, and evaluate production-relevant software
  • Experience using AI coding tools
  • Knowledge of software engineering, data systems, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise integrations
  • Knowledge of software testing, release processes, operations, security, reliability, and access requirements
  • Ability to create technical plans, estimates, acceptance criteria, and tradeoffs

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer engineering engagements from workflow discovery through implementation, evaluation, and handoff
  • Assess repositories, data systems, infrastructure, security controls, and development practices
  • Build integrations, tool gateways, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, and automations
  • Establish quality and security guardrails and evaluation methods
  • Create reusable tools, architectures, and deployment patterns
  • Document technical decisions and results for handoff and reuse
  • Recommend whether to expand, redirect, or stop workflows based on evidence

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance