Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement

About the team

The Agent Enablement AI Deployment Engineering (ADE) team works across engineering product design partnerships and strategic customers to grow an open ecosystem of agent-enabled sites and services. We help partners adopt the OpenAI tech stack related to identity permissioning agent-auth primitives so users can safely connect ChatGPT and Codex to the tools services and workflows they already use. Our team also works with external partners on defining the standards for agent access marketplace offerings as well as other agent enablement initiatives to ensure users of ChatGPT and Codex go from intent to task completion seamlessly.

About the role

We are looking for an AI Deployment Engineer to help strategic partners design build validate launch and operate agent enablement integrations across web applications connectors APIs CLIs MCP servers and developer tools. This is a hands-on partner-facing product engineering role for someone who can contribute to the platform itself lead sophisticated technical engagements and turn ambiguous identity and agent-workflow requirements into secure production-ready integrations.

You will work across partner product and engineering teams and OpenAIs product engineering design partnerships legal policy security support and go-to-market teams. You will identify high-value user journeys choose the right integration path prototype and review architectures write code run evaluations and dogfood trace failures end to end guide launch and rollout and support post-launch iteration. The best person for this role moves fluidly between full-stack code OAuth/OIDC and identity systems product judgment project leadership and clear communication with engineers and executives.

This role is a fit for a product-minded engineer who wants to stay close to users and partners while going deep on authentication permissions reliability safety and developer experience. The principle objective is to help partners ship low-friction trustworthy agent experiences that work across real-world account states enterprise constraints and user expectations.

This role is based in our San Francisco office. 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:

• Own the technical partner journey for priority agent enablement integrationsfrom use-case selection and readiness assessment through architecture prototype implementation evaluation launch rollout and ongoing maintenance.

• Help partners choose and implement the right integration path across browser sign-in connector-initiated OAuth and agentic account linking or provisioning with clear user journeys and safe fallback behavior.

• Write production and sample code build reference implementations and test harnesses and create the technical guidance integration checklists evaluations and debugging tools that move partners from concept to production.

• Debug identity and agent workflows end to end: user interface state browser redirects PKCE/OIDC transactions token exchange and validation account mapping connector callbacks CLI or MCP handoffs latency retries rate limits logs traces and metrics.

• Review partner architectures and implementation plans for API contracts scopes and permissions consent terms acceptance and account policy secret handling data boundaries privacy reliability and long-term maintainability.

• Run hands-on evaluations dogfood launch-readiness reviews staged rollouts and post-launch investigations; turn findings into concrete fixes rather than one-off workarounds.

• Contribute targeted improvements to ChatGPT Codex and the Agent Enablement platform including identity protocols APIs SDKs docs examples internal tooling partner-debugging workflows launch guardrails and user-facing consent or control experiences.

• Work closely with product engineering design partnerships legal policy security support and go-to-market teams to make partner launches smooth safe and repeatable.

• Bring structured signals from partners back to product and engineering and turn recurring integration patterns into platform requirements reference architectures playbooks and developer guidance.

Youll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 46 years of professional software engineering or AI engineering experience and are strong enough technically to contribute to the platform itself while still enjoying hands-on coding.

• Have operated in a customer or partner facing roles in scoping projects building MVPs presenting trade-offs in solution design and architecture understanding user value drivers as well as scoping and executing on tight implementation plans.

• Have built and operated production full-stack products APIs backend services developer platforms connectors or integrations and can reason across frontend backend auth data models reliability privacy and UX constraints.

• Have a strong understanding of how plugins and connectors work with coding agents integrating MCP servers using CLIs and APIs to access external tools.

• Can work comfortably with external engineers product leaders and executives and translate partner feedback into crisp technical plans and product improvements.

• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions and can turn high-level ideas into runnable prototypes API contracts technical specs.

• Balance urgency with judgment and can keep complex partner launches moving while staying precise about the details that matter.

Preferred qualifications:

• High-level understanding of the identity stack including how OAuth works.

• Experience designing or operating APIs webhooks schemas SDKs CLIs MCP servers tool-calling systems or other developer-facing integrations.

• Prior customer-facing or partner-facing engineering experience including leading technical calls navigating ambiguity and helping external teams ship production software.

• Strong familiarity with AI products LLM APIs ChatGPT or Codex surfaces coding harnesses developer platforms agent workflows or ecosystem products.

• Experience with evaluations staged rollouts observability incident response launch operations and turning production learnings into durable platform improvements.

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.

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