Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement

About the team

The Agent Enablement Applied AI Engineering 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.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 4–6 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.

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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