Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)

OpenAI · San Francisco

Posted Nov 9, 2026 · full time

Est. total comp~$256K–$393K

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ABOUT THE TEAM

The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for helping customers turn frontier AI capabilities into real products, workflows, and business impact. We act as trusted technical partners across solution design, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption, working alongside customers to build and scale effective AI applications with OpenAI’s technologies.

The Codex Applied AI Engineering team focuses on helping organizations transform how software is built with AI. We partner directly with engineering teams and technical leaders to integrate Codex into their software development lifecycle — from identifying high-impact use cases and designing AI-enabled workflows to implementation, evaluation, and scaled adoption. Our work helps ensure AI-powered software development is effective, reliable, secure, and deeply integrated into how engineering organizations operate.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced technical leader to join as Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex), leading 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. …

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Experience: 8+ years of experience in technical, customer-facing roles, 2+ years of experience in leading technical teams

Skills and tools: Python, JavaScript

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Also in the posting: San Francisco office; Hybrid work model 3 days in office per week

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