OpenAI

AI Deployment Engineer

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in technical consulting, post-sales engineering, or solutions architecture.
  • Strong communication skills to convey technical and business concepts.
  • Experience with complex deployments of Generative AI or machine learning systems.
  • Hands-on proficiency in programming languages like Python or JavaScript.
  • Proactive ownership of challenges with a willingness to learn new skills.
  • Collaborative mindset with a focus on customer success.
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical expert for customers post-sale, designing and deploying GenAI solutions.
  • Engage with stakeholders to identify and validate high-value GenAI applications.
  • Accelerate customer time to value through architectural guidance and prototype development.
  • Maintain relationships with leadership to drive adoption and successful outcomes.
  • Contribute to open-source resources and technical documentation for best practices.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to inform product development based on customer learnings.
  • Operationalize technical success practices to enhance impact across industries.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (3 days/week in the office).
  • Relocation assistance for new employees.
Full Job Description
About the role

We are looking for a solutions-oriented technical leader to engage with customers post-sale and ensure they realize tangible business value from their investment in OpenAI's technologies. You will work closely with senior leaders and technical teams within customer organizations to establish GenAI roadmaps, strategies, prioritize high-value use cases, and guide projects from early prototyping through enterprise-grade production deployments.

You will take a holistic view of each customer's architecture and operations, designing solutions that leverage ChatGPT, OpenAI APIs, and our broader ecosystem of tools and services. You will work cross-functionally with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, and report to the Head of Solutions Architecture for your segment.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model (3 days/week in the office) and offer relocation assistance for new employees.

In this role, you will:
  • Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert post-sale for a portfolio of customers, embedding deeply with them to design and deploy GenAI solutions.
  • Engage with senior business and technical stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and validate the highest-value GenAI applications in their roadmap.
  • Accelerate customer time to value by providing architectural guidance, building hands-on prototypes, and advising on best practices for scaling solutions in production.
  • Maintain strong relationships with leadership and technical teams to drive adoption, expansion, and successful outcomes.
  • Contribute to open-source resources and enterprise-facing technical documentation to scale best practices across customers.
  • Share learnings and collaborate with internal teams to inform product development and improve customer outcomes.
  • Codify knowledge and operationalize technical success practices to help the Solutions Architecture team scale impact across industries and customer types.

You'll thrive in this role if you:
  • Have 5+ years of technical consulting, post-sales engineering, solutions architecture, or similar experience working directly with customers.
  • Are a strong communicator, able to explain technical and business concepts clearly to executive and practitioner audiences alike.
  • Have experience leading complex deployments of Generative AI or traditional machine learning systems, ideally including infrastructure and network architecture considerations.
  • Possess hands-on proficiency in languages like Python, JavaScript, or similar, and are comfortable building prototypes or proofs of concept.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of challenges, proactively acquiring new skills or knowledge as needed to drive success.
  • Bring a humble, collaborative mindset and an eagerness to support teammates and customers alike.
  • Thrive in fast-paced environments, adeptly managing multiple workstreams and prioritizing for the highest customer impact.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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Size
100 employees
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Founded
2015

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