Job Overview
Location
Paris, France
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 8, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • The AI Deployment Engineer role at OpenAI involves working directly with strategic startup customers to ensure safe and effective deployment of AI technology, translating real-world use cases into technical insights that improve model behavior and product quality.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include prototyping and iterating on prompts, agents, and workflow designs; synthesizing customer feedback into reproducible evaluations and benchmarks; building tools and patterns that raise quality across use cases; and collaborating with research and product teams to influence roadmap decisions.
- • The AI Deployment Engineering team acts as a trusted advisor to frontier startups, combining technical depth with product judgment to bridge customer reality and model quality, operating at the intersection of applied AI and research innovation.
- • In this role, you will develop deep expertise in AI systems evaluation, gain influence over product and research direction through customer-driven insights, and build lasting impact by shaping how advanced AI is deployed and improved in real-world settings.
🎯 Requirements
- • Strong software engineering and AI fundamentals, with experience as a software engineer, ML engineer, data scientist, or equivalent; shipping production systems end-to-end is a strong plus.
- • Experience as a technical founder or engineer at an early-stage startup.
- • Familiarity with or interest in model training pipelines and reinforcement learning.
- • Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems, with the ability to reason about model behavior in complex workflows.
- • Comfort working directly with highly technical users and translating their challenges into clear technical signals.
- • Ability to move fluidly between prototyping, debugging, evaluation design, and cross-functional collaboration.
- • Clear communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- • High agency, strong product sense, and a bias toward building durable improvements over one-off fixes.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office per week in Paris.
- • Relocation assistance provided for candidates moving to Paris.
- • Opportunity to work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world.
- • Direct influence on OpenAI’s research and product development through customer insights.
- • Exposure to cutting-edge AI systems and collaboration across research, product, and engineering teams.
- • Role based in Paris with access to OpenAI’s global mission and inclusive workplace culture.
Skills & Technologies
About OpenAI, Inc.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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