OpenAI

Applied AI Engineer, Codex

OpenAI • $150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in technical consulting, solutions architecture, or post-sales engineering
  • Active power user of AI coding tools with a customized developer workflow
  • Experience conducting impactful workshops or technical training sessions
  • Published contributions to technical guides or patterns
  • Strong communication skills for conveying complex technical concepts
  • Ability to navigate ambiguous and rapidly evolving problem spaces
  • Focus on customer success, reliability, and operational excellence

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical expert on OpenAI Codex for customers
  • Design and implement AI-enhanced development workflows with customers
  • Build high-quality demos and workflow automations using Codex
  • Lead workshops and training sessions for effective AI tool adoption
  • Contribute technical content to the OpenAI Cookbook for community use
  • Gather product insights from customer deployments for internal product feedback
  • Advise on solution architecture, operational readiness, and best practices

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunity to work with industry leaders and top technology
  • Access to cutting-edge AI tools and technologies
  • Professional development opportunities including workshops and training
  • Supportive team culture focused on customer success and technical excellence
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are seeking a technically deep, creativity-driven Applied AI Engineer who is already a power user of AI coding tools and passionate about pushing the boundaries of developer productivity. You will partner directly with engineering leaders and hands-on builders to design, validate, and scale advanced AI workflows, often using Codex to prototype and build the very demos, integrations, and automations customers ultimately adopt.

This is a highly cross-functional role that blends technical architecture, product strategy, and customer-facing leadership. You'll work closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Applied Engineering, and the broader Codex organization to advocate for customer needs, shape product direction, and accelerate the successful deployment of intelligent coding systems across some of the world's most influential companies.

In this role, you will:
  • Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert on OpenAI Codex for a portfolio of customers, embedding deeply with them to enable their engineering teams and build coding workflows.
  • Partner directly with customers to design and implement AI-enhanced development workflows, from rapid prototyping through scalable production rollout.
  • Build high-quality demos, reference implementations, and workflow automations, using Codex itself as part of your development process.
  • Lead large-format workshops, technical deep dives, and hands-on enablement sessions that help engineering organizations adopt AI coding tools effectively and safely.
  • Contribute technical content including examples, guides, patterns, and best practices to the OpenAI Cookbook to help the broader developer community accelerate their work with Codex.
  • Gather high-fidelity product insights from real customer deployments and translate them into clear product proposals and model feedback for internal teams.
  • Influence customer strategy and decision-making by framing how AI coding tools fit into their SDLC, technical roadmap, and organizational workflows.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor on solution architecture, operational readiness, model configuration, security considerations, and best-practice adoption.

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 an active power user of AI coding tools and have deeply customized your own developer workflow; you have a point of view on what makes engineers more productive.
  • Enjoy building scrappy, high-signal demos, integrations, and prototypes that clearly articulate what Codex can enable, often using Codex to accelerate your own development process.
  • Have experience delivering large, high-impact workshops or technical training to engineering teams and know how to craft sessions that are engaging, hands-on, and outcomes-driven.
  • Have contributed technical guides, patterns, or examples publicly and care about clarity, pedagogy, and community impact.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts in clear, persuasive written and verbal form especially when helping customers make strategic decisions about where and how to apply AI.
  • Are excited by ambiguous, rapidly evolving problem spaces and enjoy iterating toward novel solutions hand-in-hand with customers.
  • Care about customer success, reliability, safety, and operational excellence as much as you care about technical ingenuity.


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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