Applied AI Engineer, Codex

The role

You will lead customer engineering engagements to integrate Codex into enterprise workflows. You will build, evaluate, and document technical solutions, architectures, and tools to improve how software is built, shipped, secured, and operated.

What you will do

• Lead customer engineering engagements from discovery through implementation and handoff.
• Assess customer repositories, data systems, infrastructure, security controls, and development practices.
• Build and validate workflows alongside customer engineers.
• Develop integrations, tool gateways, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, and automations.
• Establish baselines, quality and security guardrails, and evaluation methods.
• Turn customer engagements into reusable tools, architectures, and deployment patterns.
• Translate recurring challenges into actionable feedback for product, engineering, and research teams.
• Document technical decisions and results for handoff and reuse.
• Use evidence to recommend when to expand, redirect, or stop work.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software development, deployment engineering, data or infrastructure engineering, technical consulting, or solutions architecture.
• Can build, debug, and evaluate production-relevant software and quickly understand unfamiliar systems.
• Actively use AI coding tools and have a clear perspective on how agents can automate complete workflows.
• Technical depth in one or more areas, such as software engineering, data systems, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise integrations.
• Understand how software is tested, released, and operated.
• Can reason about the security, reliability, and access requirements of enterprise environments.
• Can turn an ambiguous customer problem into a practical technical plan with credible estimates, measurable acceptance criteria, and clear tradeoffs.
• Communicate effectively with technical leaders and hands-on engineers.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is available to new employees.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.