# Partner AI Deployment Engineer **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $197K – $278K • Offers Equity **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/552396f4-dc83-43de-9230-6301e5f461bd **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3b74592e-44d ## Description ## Partner AI Deployment Engineer ### Location San Francisco ### Employment Type Full time ### Department ### Compensation - $197K – $278K • Offers Equity The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following 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: 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - 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, may also be provided. More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process. ### About the team The AI Deployment Engineering (ADE) team ensures the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as trusted advisors and technical partners to our customers, helping them build and execute their AI adoption strategy post-sale. Our mission is to develop a strong backlog of GenAI use cases tailored to each customer’s industry and to drive these initiatives from prototype to production through hands-on technical guidance and partnership. As a Partner ADE, you’ll support systems integrators and their most strategic customers transform their business through solutions such as customer service, automated content generation, and novel applications that make use of our newest, most exciting models. ### About the role We are looking for a driven solutions leader with a product mindset as the founding Partner ADE to own the technical engagement with our systems integrators (including GSIs, RSIs, and boutique SIs) and ensure their customers achieve tangible business value with GenAI. You will help partners identify high-value use cases and provide technical enablement through the implementation of AI solutions. Your efforts will accelerate partners’ time to unlock distribution and adoption, ensuring they deliver exceptional results for our joint customers while maintaining high-quality standards. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, and you will report to the Head of Solutions Architecture. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. ### In this role, you will: - Deeply embed with GSIs, RSIs, and boutique SIs as the technical lead, serving as their technical thought partner to ideate and build novel applications on our API for their customers. - Work with senior SI and customer stakeholders to identify the best applications of GenAI in their industry and to build/qualify a comprehensive backlog to support their AI roadmap. - Intervene directly to accelerate customer time to value through building hands-on prototypes and/or by delivering impactful strategic guidance. - Forge and manage relationships with SI and customer stakeholders to ensure the successful deployment and scale of their applications. - Codify solution packages and architectural patterns to accelerate time to deployment for customers and partners. - Lead technical support during partners' initial projects to ensure successful implementations and mentor their technical teams towards self-sufficiency in delivering OpenAI-powered solutions. - Scale the Partner Solutions Architect function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, contributing resources to our open-source repositories, and publishing resources to internal and external knowledge bases. - Validate, synthesize, and deliver high-signal feedback to the Product and Research teams. ### You’ll thrive in this role if you: - Have 8+ years of technical consulting (or equivalent) experience, managing C-level technical and business relationships with complex global organizations. - Have led complex technical projects and programs with many stakeholders, ideally within or through an SI. - Have industry experience in programming languages like Python or Javascript. - Have led complex implementations of Generative AI and/or traditional ML solutions. - Have built and/or delivered prototypes using the OpenAI API. - Are an effective presenter and communicator who can translate business and technical topics to all audiences, including senior leaders. - Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done. - Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed. ## Skills ### Required - technical consulting - C-level technical and business relationships - complex global organizations - programming languages like Python or Javascript - Generative AI and/or traditional ML solutions - OpenAI API ### Nice to have - effective presenter and communicator - problem-solving - humble attitude - eagerness to help colleagues