AI Deployment Engineer, Enterprise

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Partner directly with enterprise customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into technical architectures, implementation plans, and measurable success criteria
• ▹Design, build, and deploy AI systems that solve important customer problems and produce measurable business outcomes
• ▹Work hands-on in code to build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, integrations, and production accelerators
• ▹Make sound technical decisions across models, agents, retrieval, tools, data, reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security, and governance
• ▹Diagnose complex implementation challenges, reproduce failures, test hypotheses, and drive blockers toward resolution
• ▹Help customers progress from promising prototypes to reliable production systems and scaled impact
• ▹Partner closely with customer engineering teams and OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and go-to-market teams
• ▹Create reusable architectures, tooling, and playbooks that accelerate future enterprise deployments

Requirements

• ▹Demonstrated track record designing, building, and delivering AI/ML systems in enterprise environments, including taking systems from prototype to production
• ▹Substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, or production engineering — not only program or stakeholder management
• ▹Highly proficient in Python and comfortable across an AI application stack; JavaScript or TypeScript experience is valuable
• ▹Understanding of how to evaluate AI systems systematically using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment
• ▹Experience navigating enterprise production requirements: integrations, reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, cost
• ▹Ability to connect technical decisions to customer workflows, adoption, and measurable business outcomes
• ▹Clear, credible communication across hands-on engineers, technical leaders, security teams, and executives

Nice to have

• ▹Background in forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting
• ▹No prior experience in a specific industry or with OpenAI products is required

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Hybrid work model (3 days/week in office, SF or NYC)
• ▹Relocation assistance for new employees

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. It is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or other legally protected characteristics.