# AI Deployment Engineer, Digital Natives

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $197k – $278k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, OpenAI API, Prototyping, Technical Consulting, Project Leadership, Enterprise Architecture, Feedback Synthesis
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> Partner with sophisticated customers as a technical thought leader to ideate, prototype, and deploy novel Generative AI applications using OpenAI APIs. Establish AI roadmaps, guide from prototype to production, and provide strategic feedback to OpenAI's product and research teams. Requires 5+ years technical consulting experience and proficiency in Python/JavaScript.

## Job Description

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

## Requirements
- 5+ years of technical consulting (or equivalent) experience.
- 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 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.
- Excited to contribute to the development of frontier AI capabilities by consolidating and channeling feedback from the field to product and applied research teams.
- Humble attitude and eagerness to help others with empathy.
- Operate with high horsepower, 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.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience partnering with senior customer leaders to establish AI strategic roadmaps and identify high-value applications.
- Ability to design enterprise architecture using OpenAI APIs and other services.
- Background in customer service, automated content generation, contextual search, personalization, or other novel AI use cases.

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