AI Plugin Deployment Engineer — Partner Platform

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco seeks an AI Deployment Engineer to help strategic partners design, build, evaluate, submit, launch, and maintain high-utility plugins for ChatGPT and Codex. This is a hands-on, partner-facing product engineering role for someone who can contribute to the platform itself, lead sophisticated partner engagements, and translate ambiguous product needs into production-ready integrations.

You will work across partner product and engineering teams and OpenAI’s product,

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of professional software engineering experience, capable of contributing to the platform while writing code.
• Experience building and operating production APIs, backend services, or developer platforms.
• Strong ability to communicate with engineers, product leaders, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical partner journey for priority B2B plugins—from pitch to launch and ongoing maintenance.
• Identify strong plugin use cases and define crisp user journeys that deliver real value.
• Write production and sample code, prototypes, and reference implementations; provide guidance and launch checklists.

Skills

API design

OAuth/login flows

Distributed systems

Technical communication

Partner-facing experience

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco seeks an AI Deployment Engineer to help strategic partners design, build, evaluate, submit, launch, and maintain high-utility plugins for ChatGPT and Codex. This is a hands-on, partner-facing product engineering role for someone who can contribute to the platform itself, lead sophisticated partner engagements, and translate ambiguous product needs into production-ready integrations.

You will work across partner product and engineering teams and OpenAI’s product,