AI Deployment Engineer

OpenAI

AI Deployment Engineer collaborating with sophisticated customers for deploying Generative AI applications. Driving technical value and solutions through OpenAI APIs in a hybrid work model from San Francisco or Seattle.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $197,000 - $278,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptPythonSwitching

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deeply embedded with our most sophisticated and technical platform customers, serving as their technical thought partner in ideating and building novel applications on our APIs.
Proactively provide guidance to our customers on how to maximize business impact from their applications, accelerating their time to value.
Experiment and prototype solutions with and for your customers.
Forge and manage relationships with our customers’ leadership and stakeholders to ensure their application’s successful deployment and scale.
Contribute to our open-source developer and enterprise resources.
Scale the AI Deployment Engineering function through sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing cookbooks to our internal and external repositories.
Validate, synthesize, and deliver high-signal feedback to the Product, Engineering, and Research teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 5+ years of technical consulting (or equivalent) experience.
Are proficient in Python and JavaScript.
Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform.
Led complex technical projects and programs with many stakeholders.
Can proactively identify opportunities for maximizing our customers’ business value through leveraging the OpenAI APIs.
Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done to ensure both your team and our customers succeed.
Are excited to contribute to the development of frontier AI capabilities by consolidating and channeling feedbacks from the field to our product and applied research teams
Have a humble attitude and an eagerness to help others with empathy.
Operate with high horsepower, are adept at frequent context switching and working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership, and ruthlessly prioritize.
Thrive in dynamic environments and can navigate ambiguity with ease.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonJavaScriptAPI DevelopmentPrototypingTechnical Project ManagementOpenAI APIsFeedback SynthesisSolution ExperimentationBest Practices CodificationOpen-Source Contribution

Soft Skills

EmpathyAdaptabilityProblem-SolvingCollaborationCommunication