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OpenAI

Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)

AI summary of the role

Manager role leading a team of Applied AI Engineers focused on driving adoption of OpenAI's Codex product within strategic customer engineering organizations.

What you’ll do

  • 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, driving customers from exploration to scaled adoption.
  • Guide teams in designing AI-enhanced development workflows, agentic systems, automations, evaluations, and scalable application architectures.
  • Act as senior technical escalation point and thought partner for complex customer implementations.

What you’ll bring

  • 8+ years in deeply technical, customer-facing roles (applied engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, technical consulting).
  • 2+ years leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers.
  • Experience building or deploying generative AI, developer platforms, agentic systems, or cloud-based software in production.
  • Strong hands-on software engineering with Python or JavaScript.

Technologies

Codex · generative AI · agentic systems · Python · JavaScript · cloud-based software · developer platforms · AI workflows · evaluations · reference architectures

About OpenAI

Builds frontier AI models (GPT series) and ships them as ChatGPT consumer/enterprise products plus a developer API for the broader AI ecosystem.

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Source and classification

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About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for helping customers turn frontier AI capabilities into real products, workflows, and business impact. We act as trusted technical partners across solution design, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption, working alongside customers to build and scale effective AI applications with OpenAI’s technologies. The Codex Applied AI Engineering team focuses on helping organizations transform how software is built with AI. We partner directly with engineering teams and technical leaders to integrate Codex into their software development lifecycle — from identifying high-impact use cases and designing AI-enabled workflows to implementation, evaluation, and scaled adoption. Our work helps ensure AI-powered software development is effective, reliable, secure, and deeply integrated into how engineering organizations
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