OpenAI
Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Enterprise)
$251K–$335K
New York City +2 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- New York City
San Francisco
Mountain View - Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
About the job
Leads a team of Applied AI Engineers delivering production AI systems and sustained business value for enterprise customers.
What you'll do
- Build, manage, and develop a high-performing customer-facing engineering team.
- Guide solution design, production implementation, adoption, escalations, and customer outcomes across an enterprise portfolio.
- Create scalable operating models, reusable implementation patterns, and feedback mechanisms with internal teams.
What they ask for
- Significant experience managing customer-facing technical teams.
- Experience building or leading teams that implement complex software, data, machine learning, or AI systems in enterprise environments.
- Technical depth to evaluate architectures and coach engineers through implementation decisions.
- Experience taking AI, machine learning, or other technically complex systems from prototype to production.
Nice to have
- Experience with global customers, multi-business-unit implementations, regulated workflows, or large-scale organizational transformations.
- Experience building technical enablement, reusable solution patterns, evaluation frameworks, or customer implementation methodologies.
Pay
$251K – $335K USD base salary
AI focus
Lead enterprise teams in designing and deploying production AI systems, guiding architecture, model selection, evaluations, reliability, safety, security, governance, and adoption.
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