OpenAI
Early Access Deployment Engineer
$250K–$330K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jul 24, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of software engineering or equivalent technical experience.
About the job
Leads customer-facing early-access deployments of emerging AI capabilities, turning real-world needs into prototypes, evaluations, actionable research feedback, and launch decisions.
What you'll do
- Engage customers to identify high-value use cases, build prototypes, and define success criteria.
- Design and support evaluations; troubleshoot model behavior and solution quality.
- Run early-access programs end to end and share findings and reusable technical approaches with internal teams.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of software engineering or equivalent technical experience, including customer-facing delivery and ownership of production systems.
- Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript or TypeScript, with modern front-end and back-end development and familiarity with cloud deployment.
- Practical AI and LLM experience, including reasoning about model behavior, designing evaluations, and building production-oriented AI applications.
- Ability to turn ambiguous ideas into working prototypes and reliable solutions.
Pay
$250K – $330K USD base salary
Tools
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript
AI focus
Deploys frontier AI capabilities in customer use cases; builds AI applications, evaluates model behavior and failure modes, and conveys findings to Research and Product.
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