Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)

OpenAI
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 251,000 - 335,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Technical judgment","Ownership","Mentoring"]

Lead a team of Applied AI Engineers to drive successful Codex adoption with strategic customers. You’ll own the engagement operating model, guiding teams to design and implement AI-enabled development workflows, agentic systems, automations, evaluations, and scalable architectures. Serve as a senior technical escalation point and partner with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering to translate customer needs into reusable technical patterns and actionable product insights, measured by meaningful and sustained adoption outcomes.

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OpenAI
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Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)

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Job Summary

Lead a team of Applied AI Engineers to drive successful Codex adoption with strategic customers. You’ll own the engagement operating model, guiding teams to design and implement AI-enabled development workflows, agentic systems, automations, evaluations, and scalable architectures. Serve as a senior technical escalation point and partner with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering to translate customer needs into reusable technical patterns and actionable product insights, measured by meaningful and sustained adoption outcomes.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, hire, and mentor a team of Applied AI Engineers supporting Codex customers across strategic accounts.
  • •Own the operating model and technical engagement strategy for Codex Applied AI Engineering from initial exploration to scaled adoption.
  • •Guide the design and implementation of AI-enhanced development workflows, agentic systems, automations, evaluations, and scalable application architectures.
  • •Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex customer implementations and engineering challenges.
  • •Partner with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering to align customer outcomes with product direction and synthesize engagement insights into actionable feedback.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 251,000 - 335,000 annually
Perks:RelocationEquity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience in deeply technical, customer-facing roles such as applied engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, technical consulting, or similar roles.
  • •2+ years of experience leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers.
  • •Experience building or deploying generative AI, developer platforms, agentic systems, or cloud-based software solutions in production environments.
  • •Strong hands-on software engineering experience and fluency with programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.
  • •Strong ability to work with customer engineering teams on ambiguous problems and translate complex technical and business topics for engineering and executive stakeholders.
Experience:8+ yearsGenerative AIDeveloper platformsAgentic systems
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationTechnical judgmentOwnershipMentoring
Tech Stack:CodexPythonJavaScript

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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