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Early Access Deployment Engineer

OpenAI· Go To Market
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$250k - $330k + bonusFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role focused on leading technical engagements with customers leveraging frontier OpenAI capabilities, guiding early access programs from onboarding to live experimentation, synthesis, and launch decisions in a hybrid San Francisco setting.

Responsibilities

  • Engage deeply with strategic customers during the earliest alpha stages to understand goals, workflows, technical constraints, and high-value opportunities.
  • Translate emerging and ambiguous model capabilities into scoped use cases, working prototypes, and clear success criteria.
  • Prototype rapidly with customers, Product, and Research through experiment-driven iteration.
  • Design and support evaluations that reveal model behavior, solution quality, workflow impact, and failure modes.
  • Evaluate and troubleshoot feedback across product and model behavior to determine patterns and gaps.
  • Own early access program execution end to end, from customer onboarding and live experimentation through synthesis and launch decisions.
  • Align Research, Product, Engineering, GTM, Legal, Security, Marketing, and launch teams by communicating risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.
  • Codify architectures, evaluation methods, technical patterns, and program learnings into reusable playbooks.

Qualifications

  • Have 4+ years of software engineering or equivalent technical experience, including meaningful customer-facing delivery and ownership of production systems.
  • Track record of rapidly turning ambiguous ideas into working prototypes and carrying the strongest approaches through to reliable solutions; demonstrates systems thinking.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript or TypeScript; comfortable across modern front-end and back-end development; familiar with cloud deployment.
  • Practical AI and LLM depth, including experience reasoning about model behavior, designing evaluations, and building production-oriented AI applications.
  • Strong product and customer judgment to identify high-value problems, scope experiments, and balance speed with technical integrity.
  • Ability to own problems end to end, learn quickly, and impose useful structure without waiting for perfect information.
  • Ability to manage several high-stakes technical engagements at once and maintain momentum across multiple stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication of complex ideas with clarity and empathy to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Required:Software engineeringPrototype developmentPythonJavaScript/TypeScriptCloud deployment

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 (parking and transit)
  • 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 including flexible PTO and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid office closures 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 offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation assistance for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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