AI Deployment Engineer

About The Team

The AI Deployment Engineering team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We serve as trusted advisors and technical partners, assisting customers in building and executing their AI adoption strategy post-sale. Our core mission involves developing a robust backlog of GenAI use cases tailored to each customer’s industry and driving these initiatives from prototype to production through hands-on technical guidance and partnership.

As an AI Deployment Engineer, you will empower customers across various industries to transform their businesses using applications like customer service automation, content generation, and innovative new offerings powered by our most advanced models.

About The Role

We are seeking a solutions-oriented technical leader to engage with customers post-sale, ensuring they achieve tangible business value from their investment in OpenAI's technologies. You will collaborate closely with senior leaders and technical teams within customer organizations to establish GenAI roadmaps, define strategies, prioritize high-value use cases, and guide projects from early prototyping through enterprise-grade production deployments.

This role demands a holistic view of each customer’s architecture and operations. You will design solutions leveraging ChatGPT, OpenAI APIs, and our broader ecosystem of tools and services. You will work cross-functionally with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, reporting directly to the Head of Solutions Architecture for your segment.

This position is based in our Paris office, operating under a hybrid work model (3 days/week in the office). Relocation assistance is available for new employees.

In This Role, You Will

• Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert post-sale for a portfolio of customers, embedding deeply to design and deploy GenAI solutions.
• Engage with senior business and technical stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and validate the highest-value GenAI applications in their roadmap.
• Accelerate customer time to value by providing architectural guidance, building hands-on prototypes, and advising on best practices for scaling solutions in production.
• Maintain strong relationships with leadership and technical teams to drive adoption, expansion, and successful outcomes.
• Contribute to open-source resources and enterprise-facing technical documentation to scale best practices across customers.
• Share learnings and collaborate with internal teams to inform product development and improve customer outcomes.
• Codify knowledge and operationalize technical success practices to help the Solutions Architecture team scale impact across industries and customer types.

You’ll Thrive In This Role If You

• Have 5+ years of technical consulting, post-sales engineering, solutions architecture, or similar experience working directly with customers.
• Are a strong communicator, able to explain technical and business concepts clearly to executive and practitioner audiences alike.
• Have experience leading complex deployments of Generative AI or traditional machine learning systems, ideally including infrastructure and network architecture considerations.
• Possess hands-on proficiency in languages like Python, JavaScript, or similar, and are comfortable building prototypes or proofs of concept.
• Take end-to-end ownership of challenges, proactively acquiring new skills or knowledge as needed to drive success.
• Bring a humble, collaborative mindset and an eagerness to support teammates and customers alike.
• Thrive in fast-paced environments, adeptly managing multiple workstreams and prioritizing for the highest customer impact.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

Key skills/competency

• Generative AI
• Solutions Architecture
• Technical Consulting
• Deployment Engineering
• Python
• JavaScript
• Customer Engagement
• Post-Sales Support
• Machine Learning
• Project Leadership