# Manager, Applied AI Engineering

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $251k – $335k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Generative AI, Python, JavaScript, AI Agents, Cloud Software, Software Architecture, Software Development Lifecycle, Technical Consulting, Solutions Architecture, Customer Implementations
**Posted:** 2026-08-27

> Leads and scales a team of Applied AI Engineers helping strategic customers integrate Codex into software development workflows. Requires 8+ years in technical customer-facing roles, team leadership experience, and hands-on expertise with generative AI, software engineering, and production systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, and mentor Applied AI Engineers supporting Codex customers across strategic accounts.
- Own the operating model and technical engagement strategy, guiding customers from exploration to scaled adoption.
- Design and implement AI-enhanced development workflows, agentic systems, automations, evaluations, and scalable application architectures.
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex customer implementations and engineering challenges.
- Partner with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering to align customer outcomes with product direction and roadmap priorities.
- Establish repeatable technical patterns, playbooks, reference architectures, and best practices for AI-powered software development.
- Coach engineers to act as trusted technical partners to engineering leaders, executives, and technical customer teams.
- Translate customer engagement insights into feedback for Product, Research, and Engineering.
- Promote safe, reliable, and effective adoption of AI-powered development workflows.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in deeply technical, customer-facing roles such as applied engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, or technical consulting.
- 2+ years leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers.
- Experience building or deploying generative AI, developer platforms, agentic systems, or cloud-based software solutions in production.
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience with programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.
- Understanding of modern software development lifecycles and how AI and coding agents affect software design, development, testing, and maintenance.
- Ability to work directly with customer engineering teams on ambiguous problems and turn technical approaches into working solutions.
- Strong communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and build teams and operating models from first principles.
- Strong ownership, humility, technical judgment, and commitment to customer and team success.
- Commitment to the safe and beneficial development of AI.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $251,000–$335,000.

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