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Applied AI Engineer, Sign in with ChatGPT

OpenAI· Go To Market
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San Francisco$197k - $280kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Apply AI engineer role focused on design, build, validation, and operation of agent enablement integrations across web apps, connectors, APIs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tools for strategic partners; hybrid SF office with relocation assistance.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical partner journey for priority agent enablement integrations—from use-case selection and readiness assessment through architecture, prototype, implementation, evaluation, launch, rollout, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Help partners choose and implement the right integration path across browser sign-in, connector-initiated OAuth, and agentic account linking or provisioning, with clear user journeys and safe fallback behavior.
  • Write production and sample code, build reference implementations and test harnesses, and create the technical guidance, integration checklists, evaluations, and debugging tools that move partners from concept to production.
  • Debug identity and agent workflows end to end: user interface state, browser redirects, PKCE/OIDC transactions, token exchange and validation, account mapping, connector callbacks, CLI or MCP handoffs, latency, retries, rate limits, logs, traces, and metrics.
  • Review partner architectures and implementation plans for API contracts, scopes and permissions, consent, terms acceptance, and account policy, secret handling, data boundaries, privacy, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Run hands-on evaluations, dogfood, launch-readiness reviews, staged rollouts, and post-launch investigations; turn findings into concrete fixes rather than one-off workarounds.
  • Contribute targeted improvements to ChatGPT, Codex, and the Agent Enablement platform, including identity protocols, APIs, SDKs, docs, examples, internal tooling, partner-debugging workflows, launch guardrails, and user-facing consent or control experiences.
  • Work closely with product, engineering, design, partnerships, legal, policy, security, support, and go-to-market teams to make partner launches smooth, safe, and repeatable.
  • Bring structured signals from partners back to product and engineering, and turn recurring integration patterns into platform requirements, reference architectures, playbooks, and developer guidance.

Qualifications

  • 4–6 years of professional software engineering or AI engineering experience and are strong enough technically to contribute to the platform itself while still enjoying hands-on coding.
  • Experience in customer or partner facing roles in scoping projects, building MVPs, presenting trade-offs in solution design and architecture, understanding user value drivers as well as scoping and executing on tight implementation plans.
  • Built and operated production full-stack products, APIs, backend services, developer platforms, connectors, or integrations, and can reason across frontend, backend, auth, data models, reliability, privacy, and UX constraints.
  • Strong understanding of how plugins and connectors work with coding agents, integrating MCP servers, using CLIs and APIs to access external tools.
  • Ability to work with external engineers, product leaders, and executives, and translate partner feedback into crisp technical plans and product improvements.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions, and can turn high-level ideas into runnable prototypes, API contracts, technical specs.
  • Balance urgency with judgment and can keep complex partner launches moving while staying precise about the details that matter.

Skills

Required:Full-stack software engineeringOAuth / OIDC / identity systems
Nice to have:API design and developer-facing integrations

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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