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Manager, AI Deployment Engineering - Codex

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Munich, Germany

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead, hire, and mentor a high-performing team of AI Deployment Engineers supporting Codex customers across strategic accounts.
• Own the operating model and engagement strategy for Codex deployment efforts, ensuring customers successfully move from pilot to production adoption.
• Guide teams in designing and implementing AI-enhanced development workflows, automations, and scalable deployment architectures.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex customer implementations and deployment challenges.
• Partner with Sales, Product, Research, and Applied Engineering teams to align customer outcomes with product direction and roadmap priorities.
• Help establish repeatable deployment playbooks, technical patterns, and best practices that enable scaled adoption of AI coding tools.
• Coach engineers to operate as trusted advisors to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Synthesize insights from customer deployments and translate them into actionable feedback for internal teams.
• Champion safe, reliable, and effective adoption of AI-powered development workflows across industries.
• Work hands-on with customer development teams to integrate Codex into their software development lifecycle—from early experimentation and pilot design through enterprise-scale production rollout.
• Ensure AI-enhanced developer experiences are reliable, secure, and deeply embedded within customer environments.
• Define how deployment engagements operate at scale by setting technical strategy and ensuring consistent execution across customer implementations.
• Serve as both a people leader and technical advisor, bridging customer needs with internal product and engineering priorities.
• Drive successful Codex adoption by establishing scalable patterns for AI-powered software development in real-world enterprise settings.
• Support strategic customers in transitioning from experimentation to production-grade use of next-generation AI coding tools and intelligent automations.
• Maintain deep technical familiarity with software development systems and programming languages such as Python and JavaScript.
• Understand modern software development lifecycles and how AI tooling transforms developer productivity and workflows.
• Communicate complex technical and business topics effectively to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments while building new operating models and teams from first principles.
• Demonstrate strong ownership, humility, and commitment to helping both customers and teammates succeed.
• Contribute to OpenAI’s mission of ensuring general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity through safe and effective deployment practices.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as deployment engineering, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or post-sales engineering.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers.
• Experience deploying Generative AI, developer platforms, or cloud-based software solutions into production environments.
• Hands-on technical experience with software development systems and programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.
• Understanding of modern software development lifecycles and how AI tooling transforms developer productivity and workflows.
• Effective communication skills to translate complex technical and business topics to engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
• Relocation assistance for new employees.
• Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI deployment with cutting-edge technologies.
• Collaborative environment partnering with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering teams.
• Role focused on shaping scalable, repeatable deployment patterns for AI-powered development tools.
• Contribution to OpenAI’s mission of ensuring AI benefits all of humanity.

Skills & Technologies

Python

JavaScript

Hybrid

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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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