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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Applied AI Engineer, Codex Core Agent

Develops and improves Codex AI agents for real-world software engineering tasks, focusing on performance, reliability, and integration with research and product teams. Requires strong Python, ML/LLM experience, and skills in evaluation, prompting, and debugging production failures.

230k – 325k/yr
On-siteML Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Design and iterate on agent behaviors across real-world coding tasks and long-horizon workflows.
  • Work closely with research to develop and run evals to measure agent performance, regressions, failure modes, and edge cases.
  • Improve performance through prompting, tool-use strategies, context construction, and model-facing experimentation.
  • Analyze failures in production and systematically improve robustness and reliability.
  • Build feedback loops and data systems that get better real-task data into evaluation and research.
  • Work with product teams to shape user-facing agent experiences and the interfaces the agent depends on.
  • Help define what “good” looks like for agents completing complex tasks end-to-end.

You Might Be a Good Fit If You

  • Have experience building or shipping machine learning or LLM-powered products.
  • Are strong in Python and comfortable with modern ML tooling.
  • Have worked on model evaluation, fine-tuning, or prompt design.
  • Think in terms of systems and user outcomes, not just model metrics.
  • Enjoy debugging messy, real-world failures and turning them into improvements.
  • Want to work in the layer that turns research and model potential into systems that actually work for users.

Bonus Points

  • Experience with agent frameworks or tool-using LLM systems.
  • Research experience with code generation models or developer tooling.
  • Experience working with large, messy datasets or production logs.

Skills

PythonMachine LearningLLMsPrompt EngineeringModel EvaluationFine-TuningAgent FrameworksTool-Use LlmsCode GenerationData Systems

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