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The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and startups. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance.

As an AI Deployment Engineer (ADE) in the OpenAI for Global Affairs team, you’ll help government and non‑profit agencies transform their organization through solutions such as automated content generation, contextual search, and novel applications that make use of our newest, most exciting models and technology. The Global Affairs team builds authentic, collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community to inform and support our shared work. We ensure that insights from policymakers inform our work and help shape policy guardrails, industry standards, and safe and beneficial development of AI tools.

• Serve as the primary technical advisor for Global Affairs partnerships, helping organizations identify and deploy high‑impact AI use cases.
• Guide partners from discovery through implementation, moving beyond pilots to real‑world, sustainable adoption.
• Design demonstrations, prototypes, and proof‑of‑concepts tailored to partner missions and operational realities.
• Translate complex technical concepts into accessible guidance for non‑technical audiences.

• Support governments, nonprofits, educational institutions, workforce organizations, and small businesses adopting OpenAI products.
• Conduct workshops, office hours, and implementation sessions with external stakeholders.
• Develop educational content, deployment playbooks, best practices, and reusable resources.
• Identify opportunities to expand partner impact through additional OpenAI products and programs.

• Proactively provide guidance to Global Affairs stakeholders on how to maximize business impact from their applications, accelerating their time to value.
• Experiment and prototype solutions with and for your stakeholders.
• Forge and manage relationships with our stakeholders’ leadership to ensure their application’s successful deployment and scale.
• Represent the voice of GA stakeholders with internal teams, gathering and relaying feedback and identifying themes to incorporate into product planning.

Use your expertise in programming with Python and Javascript.

• Have 7+ years of technical consulting (or equivalent) experience.
• Are proficient in Python and Javascript.
• Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform.
• Led complex technical projects and programs with many stakeholders.
• Can proactively identify opportunities for maximizing stakeholder value through leveraging the OpenAI API.
• Own problems end‑to‑end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done to ensure both your team and our stakeholders succeed.
• Have a humble attitude and an eagerness to help others with empathy.
• Operate with high horsepower, are adept at frequent context switching and working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership, and ruthlessly prioritize.
• Thrive in dynamic environments and can navigate ambiguity with ease.

San Francisco, New York or Washington, DC

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s affirmative action and equal employment opportunity policy statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.