Applied AI Engineer, Sign in with ChatGPT

The role

You will help strategic partners design, build, validate, launch, and operate agent enablement integrations. This includes working on web applications, connectors, APIs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tools.

What you will do

• Own the technical partner journey for priority agent enablement integrations.
• Help partners implement integration paths across browser sign-in, OAuth, and agentic account linking.
• Write production and sample code, build reference implementations, and create technical guidance.
• Debug identity and agent workflows end to end.
• Review partner architectures for API contracts, permissions, and reliability.
• Run hands-on evaluations, dogfood, and staged rollouts.
• Contribute improvements to ChatGPT, Codex, and the Agent Enablement platform.
• Work with product, engineering, design, partnerships, legal, policy, security, support, and go-to-market teams.
• Turn recurring integration patterns into platform requirements and developer guidance.

Required qualifications

• 4–6 years of professional software engineering or AI engineering experience.
• Experience in customer or partner facing roles in scoping projects and building MVPs.
• Experience building and operating production full-stack products, APIs, backend services, developer platforms, connectors, or integrations.
• Strong understanding of how plugins and connectors work with coding agents, integrating MCP servers, and using CLIs and APIs.
• Ability to work with external engineers, product leaders, and executives.
• Ability to turn high-level ideas into runnable prototypes and technical specs.

Nice to have

• High-level understanding of the identity stack, including how OAuth works.
• Experience designing or operating APIs, webhooks, schemas, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, or tool-calling systems.
• Prior customer-facing or partner-facing engineering experience.
• Strong familiarity with AI products, LLM APIs, ChatGPT or Codex surfaces, coding harnesses, developer platforms, or agent workflows.
• Experience with evaluations, staged rollouts, observability, incident response, and launch operations.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.