Frontier AI Deployment Engineer (Early Access)

Slope; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Early Access Deployment Engineer in San Francisco to lead hands-on engagements with customers leveraging frontier capabilities. You will work at the earliest stage of development, solving complex problems, prototyping solutions, and turning insights into actionable feedback for Research and Product.

You will own end-to-end program execution, collaborate with Research, Product, Engineering, and GTM teams, and help shape the path from promising technology to real-world impact.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering and hands-on delivery with production systems.
• Proficient in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript; knowledge of cloud deployment.
• Practical AI/LLM depth; experience designing evaluations and deploying AI apps.

Responsibilities

• Engage deeply with strategic customers during early alpha stages to understand goals, workflows, constraints, and opportunities.
• Translate emerging model capabilities into scoped use cases, prototypes, and success criteria.
• Prototype rapidly with customers, Product, and Research through experiment-driven iteration.
• Design and support evaluations that reveal model behavior, solution quality, and workflow impact.
• Evaluate feedback to identify patterns, gaps, and improvement opportunities across product and model behavior.
• Own end-to-end execution of early access programs from onboarding to live experimentation, synthesis, and launch decisions.
• Align cross-functional teams by communicating risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.
• Codify architectures and learnings into reusable playbooks for future deployments.

Skills

4+ years of software engineering

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud deployment

AI/LLM depth

Product and customer judgment

Multitask engagement management

Clear communication

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Early Access Deployment Engineer in San Francisco to lead hands-on engagements with customers leveraging frontier capabilities. You will work at the earliest stage of development, solving complex problems, prototyping solutions, and turning insights into actionable feedback for Research and Product.

You will own end-to-end program execution, collaborate with Research, Product, Engineering, and GTM teams, and help shape the path from promising technology to real-world impact.