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 departuresTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

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 serve as a technical expert for customer deployments of AI coding workflows. You will design and implement workflows from prototypes through production rollout, build demos and automations, lead workshops and technical enablement sessions, create technical guidance, and translate customer insights into product proposals and model feedback.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of technical consulting, post-sales engineering, solutions architecture, or similar customer-facing experience
  • Experience using AI coding tools and customizing developer workflows
  • Experience building demos, integrations, and prototypes
  • Experience delivering technical workshops or training to engineering teams
  • Experience contributing public technical guides, patterns, or examples
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in written and verbal form
  • Knowledge of customer success, reliability, safety, and operational excellence

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical subject matter expert on Codex for a customer portfolio
  • Design and implement AI-enhanced development workflows from prototyping through production rollout
  • Build demos, reference implementations, and workflow automations using Codex
  • Lead workshops, technical deep dives, and hands-on enablement sessions
  • Contribute examples, guides, patterns, and best practices to the OpenAI Cookbook
  • Gather deployment insights and translate them into product proposals and model feedback
  • Advise customers on solution architecture, operational readiness, model configuration, security, and adoption

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonuses for eligible employees
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Health Savings Account employer contributions
  • Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
  • Flexible paid time off or up to 15 days annually, depending on exemption status
  • Paid company holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided