Early Access Deployment Engineer

The role

You will lead technical engagements with customers leveraging frontier capabilities to solve real-world use cases. You will prototype solutions, design evaluations, and manage the end-to-end execution of early access programs.

What you will do

• Engage with strategic customers to understand goals, workflows, and technical constraints.
• Translate model capabilities into scoped use cases, prototypes, and success criteria.
• Prototype rapidly with customers, Product, and Research.
• Design and support evaluations for model behavior and solution quality.
• Evaluate and troubleshoot feedback across product and model behavior.
• Own early access program execution from onboarding to launch decisions.
• Align Research, Product, Engineering, GTM, Legal, Security, and Marketing teams.
• Codify architectures, evaluation methods, and technical patterns into reusable playbooks.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience includes meaningful customer-facing delivery and ownership of production systems.
• Track record of turning ambiguous ideas into working prototypes.
• Proficient in Python and/or JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Comfortable across modern front-end and back-end development.
• Familiar with cloud deployment.
• Practical AI and LLM depth.
• Experience reasoning about model behavior, designing evaluations, and building production-oriented AI applications.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

About the company

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