AI Deployment Engineer - Startups

About The Team

The AI Deployment Engineering team partners closely with frontier startups, serving as trusted advisors and thought partners. We collaborate with engineering, research, and product to ensure unsafe and effective deployment of OpenAI’s technology, turning customer 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.

About The Role

This role, based in Paris, is for a technically proficient, product‑minded engineer who will push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers. You will partner deeply on complex workflows, identify gaps that matter, and transform those gaps into reproducible evaluations, technical insights, and durable improvements across OpenAI’s research and products. The hybrid work model requires 3 days in the office per week, with relocation assistance and fluency in French.

In This Role, You Will

• Work directly with strategic startup customers to understand critical workflows, uncover failure modes, and identify high‑impact opportunities for improvement.
• Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs to better understand system behavior and unlock customer value.
• Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to Product and Research teams, turning real usage patterns into clear, reproducible evaluations, benchmarks, and technical artifacts that improve model and product quality.
• Build repeatable tools, patterns, and evaluation approaches that raise the quality bar across multiple use cases.
• Operate with strong judgment in ambiguous environments, balancing immediate technical problem‑solving with longer‑term system improvement.
• Build relationships within the startup ecosystem, serving as a technical partner to both individual customers and the broader community.

You’ll Thrive In This Role If You

• Have strong software engineering and AI fundamentals, such as experience as a startup CTO, software engineer, ML engineer, or data scientist. Experience shipping production systems end‑to‑end is a strong plus.
• Have experience as a technical founder or engineer at an early‑stage startup.
• Have familiarity with, or interest in, model training pipelines and reinforcement learning.
• Have experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems, and can reason clearly about model behavior in complex workflows.
• Are comfortable working directly with highly technical users and translating their challenges into concrete technical signals.
• Can move fluidly between prototyping, debugging, evaluation design, and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Communicate clearly across technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Bring high agency, strong product sense, and a bias toward building durable improvements rather than one‑off fixes.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s policy statements. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.