Role Overview

The AI Deployment Engineer role at OpenAI in New York City represents a unique opportunity to shape the future of media through Generative AI. As part of the AI Deployment Engineering (ADE) team, you'll serve as a trusted technical advisor to the world's most prominent news organizations. From global publishers to local non-profits, you'll help transform their operations with cutting-edge AI applications in customer service, contextual search, personalization, and innovative model deployments.

This senior-level position demands a product-minded solutions leader who can partner with C-suite media executives to craft GenAI strategies, then execute through production with engineering teams. Reporting to the Head of Solutions Architecture, Digital Native, you'll design enterprise architectures leveraging the OpenAI API ecosystem. Based in our vibrant New York office with relocation support, this role offers exposure to frontier AI technology and meaningful industry impact.

OpenAI's ADE team ensures safe, effective deployment of Generative AI for developers and enterprises worldwide. You'll build backlogs of high-value use cases tailored to media business models, driving them from prototype to scalable production. This isn't just technical implementation—it's strategic partnership that delivers measurable business outcomes for journalism's future.

Key Responsibilities

As an AI Deployment Engineer, your impact will span technical execution, strategic consulting, and cross-functional collaboration:

• Partner globally with news organizations—from national publishers to independent newsrooms—to deploy OpenAI technology across newsroom operations, customer service, marketing, and sales functions.
• Deeply embed with sophisticated platform customers, acting as their primary technical thought partner for novel API applications.
• Proactively guide customers to maximize business ROI, dramatically accelerating their path to production value.
• Lead hands-on experimentation and rapid prototyping of AI solutions tailored to media workflows.
• Cultivate executive relationships ensuring seamless application deployment at enterprise scale.
• Author open-source resources empowering the broader developer community with OpenAI best practices.
• Scale OpenAI's Solutions Architect capabilities through knowledge sharing, best practice documentation, and shared Jupyter notebooks.
• Synthesize customer insights into actionable feedback for OpenAI's Product, Engineering, and Research organizations.
• Architect comprehensive enterprise solutions integrating OpenAI API with complementary cloud services and infrastructure.
• Collaborate across Media Partnerships, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Establish GenAI roadmaps with senior media leaders, prioritizing highest-impact business applications.
• Guide customer teams from proof-of-concept through production deployment and optimization.
• Maintain rigorous focus on safe AI deployment practices protecting user trust and data integrity.

Qualifications

Exceptional candidates will demonstrate:

• 5+ years technical consulting, solutions architecture, or equivalent AI/software engineering experience.
• Intimate knowledge of news/media business models, revenue streams, audience dynamics, and operational challenges.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and JavaScript for rapid prototyping and production systems.
• Demonstrated success building/deploying prototypes leveraging OpenAI API or comparable platforms.
• Proven leadership of complex, multi-stakeholder technical programs delivering business results.
• Strategic vision to identify and unlock maximum customer value through Generative AI capabilities.
• Ownership mentality with rapid learning agility across technical domains.
• Humble, collaborative approach thriving in high-ambiguity, mission-critical environments.

This role requires New York City presence with relocation support available for qualified candidates passionate about AI's role in sustainable journalism.

Salary & Benefits

OpenAI offers competitive total compensation for AI Deployment Engineers in New York City, typically ranging from $220,000-$320,000 annually (base + equity + bonus), calibrated to experience and impact. Comprehensive benefits include:

• Market-leading health coverage (medical, dental, vision) with low employee premiums
• 401(k) with generous company match
• Unlimited vacation policy encouraging recharge
• Parental leave exceeding industry standards
• Professional development stipend for conferences/courses
• Relocation assistance package
• Stock options vesting over 4 years
• Daily catered meals and wellness reimbursements
• Cutting-edge hardware/software setup

Why Join OpenAI?

OpenAI pioneers safe AGI benefiting all humanity. As AI Deployment Engineer, you'll:

• Work with frontier models shaping global industries
• Directly impact journalism's sustainability through AI
• Collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers
• Enjoy NYC's media ecosystem from our state-of-the-art office
• Receive equity upside in humanity's most important technology company

Join builders creating AI's responsible deployment at global scale.

How to Apply

Submit your resume and a brief note explaining your fit for AI Deployment Engineering at OpenAI. Highlight media industry experience, OpenAI API projects, and complex stakeholder leadership. We review applications continuously—apply today to accelerate humanity's future through responsible AI.