Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)

OpenAI
New York, CA
Remote
Job Description
Role Overview

The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for helping customers turn frontier AI capabilities into real products, workflows, and business impact. As a Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex), you will lead a team of Applied AI Engineers responsible for driving successful Codex adoption across strategic customers. Your team will work hands-on with customer engineering organizations to design and build AI-enabled development workflows, solve complex implementation challenges, and establish scalable patterns for AI-powered software development.

What You Will Do

As a manager, you will shape how these technical engagements operate at scale — setting strategy, coaching engineers, determining where the team can have the greatest impact, and ensuring consistently strong execution across customers. You will serve as both a people leader and senior technical advisor, partnering closely with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering to translate customer needs and real-world usage into better technical approaches, reusable patterns, and product insights.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Success in this role will be measured by meaningful and sustained Codex adoption, successful customer outcomes, and the creation of repeatable technical patterns that help engineering organizations get more value from AI.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in deeply technical, customer-facing roles such as applied engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, technical consulting, or similar roles
  • 2+ years of experience leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers
  • Experience building or deploying generative AI, developer platforms, agentic systems, or cloud-based software solutions in production environments
  • Strong hands-on software engineering experience and fluency with programming languages such as Python or JavaScript
  • Understanding of modern software development lifecycles and strong intuition for how AI and coding agents can change how software is designed, built, tested, and maintained
  • Ability to work directly with customer engineering teams to understand ambiguous problems, develop technical approaches, and turn ideas into working solutions
  • Effective communication skills to translate complex technical and business topics for both engineering teams and executive stakeholders

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance
  • Flexible work model (3 days in the office per week)
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Background checks administered in accordance with applicable law
  • Reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities
  • Global Applicant Privacy Policy
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