AI Deployment Engineer (Enterprise)

TL;DR

AI Deployment Engineer (Enterprise): Partnering with leading organizations to design, build, and deploy AI systems that deliver measurable business outcomes with an accent on technical architecture, hands-on engineering, and production scaling. Focus on solving complex integration challenges, building evaluation systems, and ensuring reliability, security, and performance in real-world enterprise environments.

Location: Must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco or New York City. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring 3 days in the office per week.

Compensation: $197,000 – $278,000 + Equity.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Partner with enterprise customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into technical architectures and implementation plans.
• Design, build, and deploy AI systems that solve critical customer problems and produce measurable business outcomes.
• Work hands-on in code to build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, and production accelerators.
• Diagnose complex implementation challenges, test hypotheses, and drive blockers toward resolution.
• Make sound technical decisions across models, agents, retrieval, latency, cost, and security.
• Create reusable architectures, playbooks, and technical guidance to accelerate future deployments.

Requirements

• Demonstrated track record of delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments, taking systems from prototype to production.
• High proficiency in Python and comfort working across an AI application stack.
• Experience with enterprise production requirements such as integrations, observability, security, and data governance.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer workflows and measurable business outcomes.
• Strong communication skills to engage with engineers, technical leaders, and executives.
• Must be based in or willing to relocate to SF or NYC with a hybrid work schedule (3 days/week in office).

Nice to have

• Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Background in solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, or technical consulting.
• Experience evaluating AI systems using representative data and human judgment.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on consequential real-world deployments at the frontier of AI.
• Direct influence on the evolution of OpenAI products.
• Relocation assistance provided for new employees.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as an equal opportunity employer.
• Supportive environment focused on safety and human-centric AI development.