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We act as trusted technical partners across solution design, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption, working alongside customers to build and scale effective AI applications with OpenAI’s technologies.\nThe Codex Applied AI Engineering team focuses on helping organizations transform how software is built with AI. We partner directly with engineering teams and technical leaders to integrate Codex into their software development lifecycle - from identifying high-impact use cases and designing AI-enabled workflows to implementation, evaluation, and scaled adoption. Our work helps ensure AI-powered software development is effective, reliable, secure, and deeply integrated into how engineering organizations operate.\n About the Role\nWe are seeking an experienced technical leader to join as Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex), leading a team of Applied AI Engineers responsible for driving successful Codex adoption across strategic customers. 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We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.\n In This Role, You Will\nLead, hire, and mentor a high-performing team of Applied AI Engineers supporting Codex customers across strategic accounts.\n\nOwn the operating model and technical engagement strategy for Codex Applied AI Engineering, helping customers move from initial exploration to meaningful, scaled adoption.\n\nGuide teams in designing and implementing AI-enhanced development workflows, agentic systems, automations, evaluations, and scalable application architectures.\n\nAct as the senior technical escalation point and thought partner for complex customer implementations and engineering challenges.\n\nPartner with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering teams to align customer outcomes with product direction and roadmap priorities.\n\nEstablish repeatable technical patterns, playbooks, reference architectures, and best practices that enable broader adoption of AI-powered software development.\n\nCoach Applied AI Engineers to operate as trusted technical partners to engineering leaders, executives, and highly technical customer teams.\n\nSynthesize insights from customer engagements and translate them into actionable feedback for Product, Research, and Engineering.\n\nDevelop a deep understanding of how customers are using Codex, where they encounter friction, and where new technical approaches or product capabilities could unlock greater impact.\n\nChampion safe, reliable, and effective adoption of AI-powered development workflows across industries.\n\n You’ll Thrive in This Role If You\nHave 8+ years of experience in deeply technical, customer-facing roles such as applied engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, technical consulting, or similar roles.\n\nHave 2+ years of experience leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers.\n\nHave experience building or deploying generative AI, developer platforms, agentic systems, or cloud-based software solutions in production environments.\n\nPossess strong hands-on software engineering experience and fluency with programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.\n\nUnderstand modern software development lifecycles and have strong intuition for how AI and coding agents can change how software is designed, built, tested, and maintained.\n\nCan work directly with customer engineering teams to understand ambiguous problems, develop technical approaches, and turn ideas into working solutions.\n\nAre an effective communicator who can translate complex technical and business topics for both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.\n\nThrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and enjoy building new operating models, technical patterns, and teams from first principles.\n\nDemonstrate strong ownership, humility, technical judgment, and a commitment to helping both customers and teammates succeed.\n\nAre personally committed to fostering the safe and beneficial development of AI.\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. 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