Demo Studio Engineer

Okoro James; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Demo Studio Engineer to design and deliver compelling demonstrations for events, webinars, and customer engagements in New York. You will own defined demo projects end-to-end, translating approved product positioning into working applications, believable workflows, and clear stories for executive, technical, and industry audiences.

You will build and test the underlying experiences, prepare them for live use, and present them to diverse audiences while collaborating with

Responsibilities

• Deliver defined demo projects for events and webinars, managing milestones and risks.
• Translate positioning and product capabilities into clear narratives and workflows.
• Build working apps and high-fidelity demo environments using AI tools and APIs.
• Test and debug demos; validate capabilities and limitations; prepare fallbacks.
• Present live and recorded demos, adapting content to audiences and answering questions.
• Prepare presenter guidance, rehearsals, and troubleshoot during delivery.
• Collaborate across teams to align demos with truth, claims, context, and requirements.
• Incorporate product/sales/customer success perspectives to address questions and support adoption.
• Adapt demos for different audiences while maintaining quality.
• Create reusable components, reference demos, and docs; incorporate feedback.
• Identify tradeoffs early; propose solutions and align on decisions.

Job description

The Demo Studio translates OpenAI’s most advanced capabilities into tangible, high-impact experiences for customers. We design and deliver the demos, applications, and environments that help executives understand what is possible with AI.

Our work sits at the intersection of product, engineering, design, and go-to-market. We operate as a hybrid of product studio and live production team, building experiences that are both technically credible and narratively compelling.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Demo Studio Engineer to build and deliver compelling demonstrations for OpenAI’s events, webinars, and customer engagements.

You’ll independently own defined demo projects from initial brief through delivery, translating approved product positioning and audience needs into working applications, believable workflows, and clear stories. You’ll build and test the underlying experience, prepare it for live use, and present it directly to executive, technical, and industry audiences.

Working within the team’s broader priorities, you’ll make practical implementation decisions, anticipate risks, and collaborate with partners to deliver dependable results. You’ll also improve the tools, documentation, and reusable components that make our demos easier to build and deliver.

This role is ideal for a hands‑on builder who combines technical fluency, product thinking, and storytelling, cares about the details, and enjoys making complex technology understandable through experience.

In this role, you will:

Independently delivering defined demo projects for events, webinars, and executive engagements, managing milestones and clearly communicating progress, risks, and dependencies.

Translating approved positioning, real product capabilities, and customer needs into clear narratives, realistic workflows, and useful takeaways.

Building working applications, high‑fidelity demo environments, and AI‑powered workflows using ChatGPT Work, Codex, APIs, approved data, and connected tools.

Testing and debugging demos, validating capabilities and known limitations, and preparing practical fallback and recovery plans.

Personally presenting live and recorded demonstrations, adapting the story and technical detail to the audience and responding thoughtfully to questions.

Preparing presenter guidance, participating in rehearsals, and troubleshooting technical issues during delivery.

Collaborating with Product, Research, Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, Solutions Engineering, GTM, and Events to align demos with technical truth, approved claims, customer context, and program requirements.

Incorporating product, sales, and customer success perspectives so demonstrations address real customer questions and support adoption.

Adapting established demos for different audiences and formats while maintaining quality and accuracy.

Creating reusable components, reference demos, and documentation, and incorporating feedback to improve the team’s work.

Identifying scope and delivery tradeoffs early, proposing solutions, and seeking alignment when decisions affect broader priorities or commitments.

You might thrive in this role if you:

Has demonstrated experience building technical demos, prototypes, customer‑facing applications, or similar interactive experiences.

Can independently take a moderately scoped project from brief to delivery, anticipate challenges, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Is comfortable writing and debugging code, working with APIs and data, and connecting tools into useful AI‑powered workflows.

Brings strong working knowledge of their technical area and practical judgment about usability, reliability, and technical limitations.

Can turn complex technical concepts into clear stories grounded in real customer needs.

Has experience presenting technical work live and can communicate clearly with executive, technical, and non‑technical audiences.

Works collaboratively across functions, incorporates different perspectives, and constructively challenges assumptions.

Cares deeply about craft and detail, follows through on commitments, and stays calm when troubleshooting under pressure.

Is curious about AI and actively explores how new capabilities can create useful customer experiences.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US‑based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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