OpenAI

Demo Studio Engineer

OpenAI$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in building demos, prototypes, or interactive technical content.
  • Technical fluency with APIs, AI systems, and modern development tools.
  • Ability to translate creative direction into technical execution.
  • Strong attention to detail and emphasis on quality and reliability.
  • Comfortable working in high-pressure live event environments.
  • Skilled in rapid iteration while maintaining accuracy and quality.
  • Understanding of how demos fit into broader narratives and business goals.

Responsibilities

  • Build demo content and technical assets for events and launches.
  • Translate narrative and creative requirements into polished demo executions.
  • Create and prepare various demo materials for both live and digital use.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure demo alignment and accuracy.
  • Refine prototype applications and multimodal demo assets.
  • Support rehearsal and feedback cycles with quick updates and iterations.
  • Contribute to development of shared systems and best practices for the Demo Studio.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days in-office each week.
  • Relocation assistance for new employees.
  • Opportunities for growth into broader demo ownership.
  • Access to high-impact projects and events.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for a Demo Studio Engineer to help build the demo content, applications, workflows, and technical assets that power OpenAI's major events, launches, executive programs, booths, breakouts, and scaled content experiences.

This role will partner closely with Demo Studio Leads, Content Leads, product teams, designers, and event production partners to create specific pieces of content for high-impact moments. Rather than owning the full demo portfolio for an event or initiative, you will build against the narrative, creative, and technical requirements defined by the Leads, helping turn ambitious demo concepts into polished, reliable, production-ready experiences.

You may work on main-stage demo assets, booth experiences, technical workflows, prototype applications, screen recordings, system outputs, explainers, scaled content modules, or other event-ready materials. The work requires technical fluency, strong craft, and an ability to understand how a demo moment fits into a broader story.

This role is designed as a growth path into broader demo ownership over time. As you build context and demonstrate strong judgment, you will be given increasingly complex workstreams, more ambiguous problem spaces, and opportunities to own larger pieces of the demo experience.

In this role, you will:
  • Build demo content, applications, workflows, and technical assets for major events, launches, executive programs, booths, breakouts, and scaled content experiences
  • Work from requirements defined by Demo Studio Leads and Content Leads, translating narrative and creative direction into polished execution
  • Create specific demo moments and supporting assets that can be used in live settings, recorded content, digital experiences, sales enablement, and event follow-up
  • Partner with product, engineering, design, marketing, and event production teams to ensure demo content is accurate, reliable, and aligned to the intended story
  • Build and refine prototype applications, agent workflows, screen flows, data-backed experiences, and multimodal demo assets
  • Prepare demo materials for live execution, including system setup, screen records, presenter flows, backup assets, and operational checks
  • Support rehearsals, reviews, and iteration cycles by making fast, high-quality updates based on feedback from Leads and stakeholders
  • Help adapt live demo moments into scaled assets such as explainers, web modules, short-form clips, booth content, and customer-facing materials
  • Contribute to shared demo systems, reusable components, documentation, and best practices that improve quality and speed across the Demo Studio
  • Take on increasingly broad ownership over time, moving from defined asset execution toward larger demo work streams and event-level responsibilities
We're looking for someone with:
  • 6+ years of experience building demos, prototypes, technical content, applications, or interactive experiences
  • Are technically fluent and comfortable working with APIs, AI systems, data, modern development tools, and product workflows
  • Can translate creative and narrative direction into concrete technical execution
  • Have strong attention to detail and care deeply about craft, reliability, usability, and polish
  • Are comfortable working in high-stakes environments such as launches, conferences, executive demos, or live event settings
  • Can move quickly through iteration while maintaining quality and accuracy
  • Understand how technical demos support a larger story, audience, and business objective
  • Are excited to work across live events and scaled digital content, from stage-ready moments to reusable assets
  • Collaborate well with creative, technical, product, marketing, and production stakeholders
  • Operate with ownership within a defined scope and are eager to grow into broader demo leadership responsibilities
Workplace & Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Occasional travel will be required.

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
Industry
Founded
2015

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