Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Codex)

About the role

The Applied AI Engineering team works closely with frontier startups to ensure OpenAI technology is deployed safely and effectively. As an Applied AI Engineer, you will help developers and founders transform how they build and ship software by combining hands-on engineering with technical communication. You will engage the startup ecosystem through talks, demos, and workshops while translating developer feedback into product improvements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with top startups to identify where Codex can have the greatest impact on how their teams build and ship software.
• Design and lead technical talks, live demos, workshops, hackathons, and repeatable hands-on programmes that turn initial interest into sustained adoption.
• Work directly with selected customers to build Codex workflows, integrations, and automations, resolve technical blockers, and evaluate effectiveness and reliability.
• Turn successful approaches into reusable code examples, guides, and tools that help more startups succeed with Codex and OpenAI’s broader platform.
• Collaborate with account teams, developer experience, and ecosystem partners to reach developers and founders, prioritise opportunities, and drive measurable customer value.
• Translate customer experiences and developer feedback into actionable insights for OpenAI’s Product, Research, and Engineering teams.

Required skills

• Software engineering
• AI applications
• Developer tools
• Technical communication
• Public speaking

Qualifications

• Experience building at, founding, or working closely with early-stage startups

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through their products.