Early Access Deployment Engineer at OpenAI · LumiJobs

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We’re hiring an Early Access Deployment Engineer to lead technical engagements with customers who are leveraging our frontier capabilities to solve real-world use cases. You will work at the earliest—and often messiest—stage of development, when capabilities are still unclear, tooling and processes are evolving, and the path from promising technology to a valuable real-world application has yet to be defined.
Managing multiple customer engagements at once, you will help customers navigate ambiguity and difficult technical decisions while translating their experience into clear, actionable feedback for Research and Product.
Success in this role means turning frontier capabilities into real-world customer value and high-quality research signals. You will develop reusable technical approaches from early deployments, improve how OpenAI learns from customers, and provide strong PoV, based on customer feedback, on what should be built, refined, or scaled.
This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
Engage deeply with strategic customers during the earliest alpha stages to understand their goals, workflows, technical constraints, and highest-value opportunities.
Translate emerging and ambiguous model capabilities into scoped use cases, working prototypes, and clear success criteria.
Prototype rapidly with customers, Product, and Research through experiment-driven iteration.
Design and support evaluations that reveal model behavior, solution quality, workflow impact, and failure modes.
Evaluate and troubleshoot based feedback across product, model behavior to determine patterns and gaps
Own early access program execution end to end, from customer onboarding and live experimentation through synthesis and launch decisions.
Align Research, Product, Engineering, GTM, Legal, Security, Marketing, and launch teams by communicating risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.
Codify architectures, evaluation methods, technical patterns, and program learnings into reusable playbooks that improve future deployments.

Early Access Deployment Engineer

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