OpenAI
Dedicated Support Engineering Lead
$284K–$385K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years in technical customer-facing roles, including 6+ years of leadership responsibility in a specified or comparable function.
About the job
Build and lead OpenAI’s global Dedicated Support Engineering function, providing proactive, technically rigorous support to strategic enterprise customers and improving the service through customer insights, AI, and automation.
What you'll do
- Set the function’s strategy, service model, and growth plan; hire and develop a global team.
- Lead technical ownership, proactive reliability work, and critical customer escalations through resolution and follow-up.
- Measure service outcomes and turn investigation patterns into product, engineering, tooling, and support improvements.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles, including 6+ years of leadership responsibility in enterprise Support Engineering, Technical Account Management, or a comparable function supporting complex production environments.
- Experience building or materially scaling a dedicated technical customer program, including its service model, staffing, delivery standards, and outcomes.
- Strong technical foundation in APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise integrations.
- Experience leading high-stakes customer escalations and maintaining long-term technical relationships with strategic enterprise customers.
Nice to have
- Experience delivering measurable improvements through automation or AI.
- Experience leading senior engineers and developing technical leaders across regions.
Pay
$284K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure
AI focus
Make AI and automation foundational: use OpenAI’s technology to preserve customer context, accelerate investigations, detect risks, and automate repeatable work; establish evaluations and human oversight.
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