OpenAI

AI Support Engineer - San Francisco (Weekend Shift)

OpenAI • $120K — $145K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in user operations or technical support, preferably in tech startups
  • Proficient in utilizing emerging technologies like Codex and ChatGPT for scripting and automation
  • Expert-level skills in SaaS troubleshooting and understanding complex technologies
  • Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication abilities in technical contexts
  • Experience in fostering relationships with customers and internal teams for issue resolution
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and adapt quickly to new challenges
  • Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Interact with customers to resolve complex issues and provide guidance
  • Become an expert on OpenAI products and support capabilities
  • Collaborate with engineering and customer teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues
  • Leverage scripting and AI tools to enhance internal processes
  • Gather insights from customer issues to improve operational efficiency
  • Drive operational improvements that benefit the entire support team
  • Maintain a culture of support and productivity within the User Operations team

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in-office per week
  • Relocation assistance for new employees
  • Emphasis on professional growth and learning opportunities
  • Supportive and collaborative team culture
  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI innovation
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for dedicated, experienced, and deeply curious individuals to help solve some of the most complex challenges faced by our customers while building the future of post-AGI support alongside us. In this role, you'll work directly with customers through support tickets and live calls, troubleshooting high-impact issues and resolving novel, often ambiguous technical problems in one of the fastest-moving environments in technology. As AI adoption rapidly accelerates, the work you do will directly support mission-critical systems being built on OpenAI's platform, serving as a critical line of defense for customers operating at massive scale.

Beyond resolving technical issues, you'll help define what world-class support looks like in an AGI-driven future. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations to improve systems, reduce bugs, and elevate the customer experience, while leveraging automation, agents, and our own AI technology to transform how support operates at scale.

You'll be responsible for:
  • Working directly with customers to troubleshoot and resolve their most complex technical issues, including API failures, integration challenges, authentication errors, and production incidents. Providing end-to-end ownership through debugging logs, analyzing system behavior, reproducing issues, and delivering expert guidance.
  • Becoming a trusted expert on OpenAI's products and platform, serving as a go-to resource for complex technical issues.
  • Serving as a critical escalation point and line of defense for complex technical issues, partnering closely with customers and Engineering teams to troubleshoot, resolve, and proactively prevent recurring problems while leveraging scripting and emerging AI capabilities to improve internal tooling and automate operational workflows
  • Taking learnings from resolving customer issues and creating our approach to scaling these solutions, partnering with Product and Go-To-Market teams.
  • Driving operational excellence by identifying opportunities for automation and AI-powered workflows, implementing scalable improvements that increase team efficiency, reducing manual effort, and elevating the overall support experience.
  • Providing occasional holiday and weekend support on call coverage, as needed, to support business and customer needs.
  • Note: each person in this role will be expected to work a standard 5x8 work week, with 1 of the days covering weekend shifts each week (e.g., work weeks covering Tuesday - Saturday or Sunday - Thursday)


You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • Have 8+ years of experience in User Operations, Engineering, Support Engineering or similar technical roles, ideally within high-growth tech startups or other fast-paced environments.
  • Are comfortable using emerging technologies (ie. Codex, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, etc.) to script or engineer code (e.g., Python) for automating repetitive tasks and integrating tools.
  • Have expert-level SaaS troubleshooting skills with the ability to rapidly understand new technologies and complex concepts.
  • Polished enterprise communication and are calm with high-stakes customers during live incident calls
  • Proven experience building strong relationships with customers and cross-functional partners to drive resolution to complex issues.
  • Exceptional critical thinker and problem solver with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical issues to both customers and internal teams.
  • Thrive in ambiguity, adapt rapidly to change, continuously learn, and proactively seek opportunities for growth.
  • Bring a humble, team first mindset, a genuine eagerness to help others, and the curiosity to quickly learn whatever knowledge is needed to help both your teammates and our customers succeed.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, another relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.


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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100 employees
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Founded
2015

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