AI Deployment Engineer - Startups

About the team

The AI Deployment Engineering team works closely with frontier startups. We are trusted advisors to, and thought partners with, startups to ensure that Open

AI's technology is deployed safely and effectively, whilst also partnering with engineering, research, and product to turn those insights into evaluation systems, product improvements, and better model behavior.

This team sits at the intersection of customer reality and model quality. We combine hands-on technical depth with strong product judgment, helping translate complex, high-value use cases into clear signals that can improve both the customer experience and the underlying systems.

This role is based in Paris. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. We require fluency in French for this role.

About the role

We are seeking a technically proficient, product-minded engineer to help push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers. You'll work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world, helping them optimize their own systems and turning those learnings into durable improvements across Open

AI's research and products. You will partner deeply on complex workflows, identify the gaps that matter, and help transform those gaps into reproducible evaluations, technical insights - helping shape Open

AI's research and product direction.

This role is well suited to engineers who are equally comfortable debugging a workflow, iterating on prompts or agents, designing evaluations, and collaborating across research and product. You should be excited by ambiguous, high-impact problems and motivated by the opportunity to shape how advanced AI systems improve in practice.

In this role, you will:

Work directly with strategic startup customers to understand critical workflows, uncover failure modes, and identify high-impact oppor