OpenAI
Early Access Deployment Engineer
About this role
Lead technical engagements with customers piloting frontier AI capabilities, translating emerging model features into real-world applications. Own end-to-end early access programs by prototyping solutions, designing evaluations, gathering feedback, and informing product launch decisions while collaborating across research, product, and GTM teams.
What you'll do
- Engage deeply with strategic customers to understand goals, workflows, and technical constraints during alpha testing phases
- Prototype rapidly and iterate on solutions using emerging capabilities with customers and internal research/product teams
- Design and support evaluations to assess model behavior, solution quality, and failure modes
- Manage multiple customer engagements simultaneously while maintaining momentum and anticipating blockers
- Synthesize customer feedback and translate findings into actionable recommendations for research and product teams
- Codify successful architectures, evaluation methods, and technical patterns into reusable playbooks
What they're looking for
- Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript proficiency
- Full-stack development (front-end and back-end)
- LLM and AI application development with production experience
- Rapid prototyping and experiment-driven iteration
- Cloud deployment and infrastructure
- Technical communication with diverse stakeholders
- Systems thinking and problem decomposition
- Evaluation design for AI systems
Benefits
- Hybrid work model (3 days per week in San Francisco office)
- Relocation assistance provided
- Work on cutting-edge frontier AI capabilities
- Cross-functional collaboration with research, product, and engineering teams
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OpenAI
OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.
View all jobs at OpenAILikely interview questions
- Describe a time you turned an ambiguous or poorly-defined requirement into a working prototype. What was your approach and what challenges did you encounter?
- Walk us through an example of a production AI or LLM application you've built. How did you design evaluations to understand model behavior and failure modes?