Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Digital Natives)
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences.
We need to decide which sections to include. The posting includes: About The Team, About The Role, In This Role, You Will (list of responsibilities), You’ll Thrive in This Role If You Have (list of qualifications), About OpenAI, Compensation Range: $302K - $335K. Also mention hybrid work model, relocation assistance, location (San Francisco office). That could be considered "Schedule" or "Benefits"? The posting says: "We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees." That's schedule/benefits. According to instructions, we should include Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections only if posting actually states them. It does state hybrid work model and relocation assistance. So we could have a Schedule section (maybe "Work Schedule") and Benefits section (relocation assistance). However they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine schedule and benefits into a "Work Arrangement" section? But headings list includes Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We could create a Schedule section for hybrid model, and a Benefits section for relocation assistance. Or combine into one "Work Arrangement" but not in list. Safer to follow allowed headings: Schedule and Benefits.
Pay: Compensation Range given, so we should include Pay section.
Thus sections: About The Team, About The Role, Responsibilities (the "In This Role, You Will" list), Qualifications/Skills (the "You’ll Thrive..." list), About OpenAI, Pay, Schedule, Benefits.
We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Not needed.
We need to convert lists to
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We need to preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include boilerplate like EEO, equal opportunity, background checks, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. The posting includes some duplicated lines? Not obvious.
We need to extract content.
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About The Team paragraph: "The Applied AI Engineering team partners closely with customers to help them turn frontier AI capabilities into real products, workflows, and business impact. We act as trusted technical partners across strategy, solution design, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption, working alongside customers to build and scale effective AI applications with OpenAI’s technologies. The Digital Natives segment serves technology and software companies that are building AI into the core of their products and businesses. These customers are often highly technical, move quickly, and are among the earliest adopters of OpenAI’s newest capabilities. Our Applied AI Engineers work directly with their engineering, product, and technical leadership teams to identify high-impact opportunities, solve complex technical challenges, and bring ambitious AI applications into production."
That's prose.
About The Role: "We are seeking a Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Digital Natives) to lead the team responsible for the technical success of our most strategic technology and software customers in the Americas. In this role, you will lead a team of Applied AI Engineers who work hands-on with customers to design, build, evaluate, and scale AI applications. You will help determine where deep technical partnership can unlock the greatest customer and business impact, while developing repeatable approaches that allow the team to support a broad and fast-moving customer segment. As a manager, you will set the strategy and operating model for the team, coach and develop engineers, and serve as a senior technical partner to customers and internal stakeholders. You will work closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Research to connect what we learn from customers with OpenAI’s product direction and help customers take advantage of our newest capabilities. Success in this role will be measured by meaningful production applications, sustained adoption and usage, strong customer outcomes, and technical patterns and insights that can be applied across the broader Digital Natives segment. This role is open in our San Francisco office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees."
Note: The last sentence about hybrid work model and relocation assistance could be placed in Schedule/Benefits sections, but it's also part of About The Role. However we need to avoid duplication. We could keep that sentence in About The Role? But then we would also have Schedule/Benefits sections with same info, causing duplication. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate. We could either keep the hybrid/relocation info in About The Role and not create separate Schedule/Benefits sections, or we could move it to Schedule/Benefits and remove from About The Role. Which is better? The instruction says include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. It does have that content. So we could create Schedule and Benefits sections. But then we must ensure we don't duplicate the same content elsewhere. So we should remove that sentence from About The Role to avoid duplication. However the instruction also says preserve ALL substantive information. If we remove it from About The Role, we still preserve it in Schedule/Benefits sections. That's fine.
Thus we will edit About The Role paragraph to exclude the hybrid/relocation sentence.
Now "In This Role, You Will" list: It's a series of sentences each starting with a verb. Could be turned into list items.
List:
- Own the strategy and operating model for the Digital Natives Applied AI Engineering team, ensuring alignment with OpenAI’s objectives and the evolving needs of technology and software customers.
- Lead, hire, mentor, and develop a team of high-performing Applied AI Engineers responsible for delivering meaningful technical and customer outcomes.
- Guide the team in working hands-on with customers to identify high-impact use cases, design and build AI applications, solve technical challenges, and scale successful solutions into production.
- Partner closely with Sales to prioritize technical engagement across strategic customers and identify where Applied AI Engineering can unlock adoption, usage, and long-term customer growth.
- Serve as a senior technical partner and escalation point for priority customers, building trusted relationships with engineering leaders, CTOs, and other executive stakeholders.
- Represent the technical voice of Digital Native customers by synthesizing insights around model performance, developer experience, product gaps, emerging use cases, and technical blockers for Product, Engineering, and Research.
- Translate recurring customer needs and successful implementations into repeatable technical patterns, reference architectures, playbooks, tooling, and best practices that allow the team to scale its impact.
- Coach Applied AI Engineers on technical quality, customer judgment, prioritization, executive communication, and cross-functional partnership.
- Help customers understand and apply OpenAI’s newest capabilities, identifying opportunities to build differentiated products and experiences with frontier models.
- Champion the safe, reliable, and effective application of OpenAI’s technology across the Digital Natives ecosystem.
That's a list of duties/responsibilities. Use
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Now "You’ll Thrive in This Role If You Have" list: qualifications.
List:
- 8+ years of experience in deeply technical, customer-facing roles such as applied engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, technical consulting, or similar roles.
- 2+ years of experience leading technical teams, with a demonstrated ability to hire, develop, mentor, and manage high-performing engineers.
- Experience building or deploying generative AI, machine learning, developer platforms, or cloud-based software solutions in production environments.
- Strong technical depth across APIs, AI/ML systems, application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and modern developer workflows.
- Hands-on software engineering experience and fluency with programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.
- Comfortable working directly with highly technical engineering and product teams as well as CTOs and other executive stakeholders.
- Can translate ambiguous customer and business problems into clear technical approaches and guide teams from exploration through implementation and production.
- Demonstrate strong judgment about when to invest deeply in an individual customer challenge versus when to develop a repeatable solution for the broader segment.
- Effective communicator who can translate complex technical and business topics across audiences and coach others to do the same.
- Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and are energized by working with customers at the forefront of AI adoption.
- Demonstrate strong ownership, humility, curiosity, and a commitment to helping both customers and teammates succeed.
- Personally committed to fostering the safe and beneficial development of AI.
We could group as Requirements or Qualifications. Use heading "Qualifications" or "Requirements". The instruction list includes Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We could use "Qualifications". We'll put list under
Qualifications
.
Now About OpenAI paragraph: "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. 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 Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. 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, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology."
We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The About OpenAI section includes EEO statement, background checks, etc. Those are legal/EEO boilerplate. According to instructions, we must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportun
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences. We need to decide which sections to include. The posting includes: About The Team, About The Role, In This Role, You Will (list of responsibilities), You’ll Thrive in This Role If You Have (list of qualifications), About OpenAI, Compensation Range: $302K - $335K. Also mention hybrid work model, relocation assistance, location (San Francisco office). That could be considered "Schedule" or "Benefits"? The posting says: "We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees." That's schedule/benefits. According to instructions, we should include Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections only if posting actually states them. It does state hybrid work model and relocation assistance. So we could have a Schedule section (maybe "Work Schedule") and Benefits section (relocation assistance). However they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine schedule and benefits into a "Work Arrangement" section? But headings list includes Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We could create a Schedule section for hybrid model, and a Benefits section for relocation assistance. Or combine into one "Work Arrangement" but not in list. Safer to follow allowed headings: Schedule and Benefits. Pay: Compensation Range given, so we should include Pay section. Thus sections: About The Team, About The Role, Responsibilities (the "In This Role, You Will" list), Qualifications/Skills (the "You’ll Thrive..." list), About OpenAI, Pay, Schedule, Benefits. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Not needed. We need to convert lists to
- . For prose, use
. We need to preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include boilerplate like EEO, equal opportunity, background checks, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. The posting includes some duplicated lines? Not obvious. We need to extract content. Let's parse: About The Team paragraph: "The Applied AI Engineering team partners closely with customers to help them turn frontier AI capabilities into real products, workflows, and business impact. We act as trusted technical partners across strategy, solution design, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption, working alongside customers to build and scale effective AI applications with OpenAI’s technologies. The Digital Natives segment serves technology and software companies that are building AI into the core of their products and businesses. These customers are often highly technical, move quickly, and are among the earliest adopters of OpenAI’s newest capabilities. Our Applied AI Engineers work directly with their engineering, product, and technical leadership teams to identify high-impact opportunities, solve complex technical challenges, and bring ambitious AI applications into production." That's prose. About The Role: "We are seeking a Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Digital Natives) to lead the team responsible for the technical success of our most strategic technology and software customers in the Americas. In this role, you will lead a team of Applied AI Engineers who work hands-on with customers to design, build, evaluate, and scale AI applications. You will help determine where deep technical partnership can unlock the greatest customer and business impact, while developing repeatable approaches that allow the team to support a broad and fast-moving customer segment. As a manager, you will set the strategy and operating model for the team, coach and develop engineers, and serve as a senior technical partner to customers and internal stakeholders. You will work closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Research to connect what we learn from customers with OpenAI’s product direction and help customers take advantage of our newest capabilities. Success in this role will be measured by meaningful production applications, sustained adoption and usage, strong customer outcomes, and technical patterns and insights that can be applied across the broader Digital Natives segment. This role is open in our San Francisco office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees." Note: The last sentence about hybrid work model and relocation assistance could be placed in Schedule/Benefits sections, but it's also part of About The Role. However we need to avoid duplication. We could keep that sentence in About The Role? But then we would also have Schedule/Benefits sections with same info, causing duplication. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate. We could either keep the hybrid/relocation info in About The Role and not create separate Schedule/Benefits sections, or we could move it to Schedule/Benefits and remove from About The Role. Which is better? The instruction says include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. It does have that content. So we could create Schedule and Benefits sections. But then we must ensure we don't duplicate the same content elsewhere. So we should remove that sentence from About The Role to avoid duplication. However the instruction also says preserve ALL substantive information. If we remove it from About The Role, we still preserve it in Schedule/Benefits sections. That's fine. Thus we will edit About The Role paragraph to exclude the hybrid/relocation sentence. Now "In This Role, You Will" list: It's a series of sentences each starting with a verb. Could be turned into list items. List: - Own the strategy and operating model for the Digital Natives Applied AI Engineering team, ensuring alignment with OpenAI’s objectives and the evolving needs of technology and software customers. - Lead, hire, mentor, and develop a team of high-performing Applied AI Engineers responsible for delivering meaningful technical and customer outcomes. - Guide the team in working hands-on with customers to identify high-impact use cases, design and build AI applications, solve technical challenges, and scale successful solutions into production. - Partner closely with Sales to prioritize technical engagement across strategic customers and identify where Applied AI Engineering can unlock adoption, usage, and long-term customer growth. - Serve as a senior technical partner and escalation point for priority customers, building trusted relationships with engineering leaders, CTOs, and other executive stakeholders. - Represent the technical voice of Digital Native customers by synthesizing insights around model performance, developer experience, product gaps, emerging use cases, and technical blockers for Product, Engineering, and Research. - Translate recurring customer needs and successful implementations into repeatable technical patterns, reference architectures, playbooks, tooling, and best practices that allow the team to scale its impact. - Coach Applied AI Engineers on technical quality, customer judgment, prioritization, executive communication, and cross-functional partnership. - Help customers understand and apply OpenAI’s newest capabilities, identifying opportunities to build differentiated products and experiences with frontier models. - Champion the safe, reliable, and effective application of OpenAI’s technology across the Digital Natives ecosystem. That's a list of duties/responsibilities. Use
- .
Now "You’ll Thrive in This Role If You Have" list: qualifications.
List:
- 8+ years of experience in deeply technical, customer-facing roles such as applied engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, technical consulting, or similar roles.
- 2+ years of experience leading technical teams, with a demonstrated ability to hire, develop, mentor, and manage high-performing engineers.
- Experience building or deploying generative AI, machine learning, developer platforms, or cloud-based software solutions in production environments.
- Strong technical depth across APIs, AI/ML systems, application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and modern developer workflows.
- Hands-on software engineering experience and fluency with programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.
- Comfortable working directly with highly technical engineering and product teams as well as CTOs and other executive stakeholders.
- Can translate ambiguous customer and business problems into clear technical approaches and guide teams from exploration through implementation and production.
- Demonstrate strong judgment about when to invest deeply in an individual customer challenge versus when to develop a repeatable solution for the broader segment.
- Effective communicator who can translate complex technical and business topics across audiences and coach others to do the same.
- Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and are energized by working with customers at the forefront of AI adoption.
- Demonstrate strong ownership, humility, curiosity, and a commitment to helping both customers and teammates succeed.
- Personally committed to fostering the safe and beneficial development of AI.
We could group as Requirements or Qualifications. Use heading "Qualifications" or "Requirements". The instruction list includes Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We could use "Qualifications". We'll put list under
Qualifications
. Now About OpenAI paragraph: "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. 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 Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. 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, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology." We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The About OpenAI section includes EEO statement, background checks, etc. Those are legal/EEO boilerplate. According to instructions, we must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportun
- .
Now "You’ll Thrive in This Role If You Have" list: qualifications.
List:
- 8+ years of experience in deeply technical, customer-facing roles such as applied engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, technical consulting, or similar roles.
- 2+ years of experience leading technical teams, with a demonstrated ability to hire, develop, mentor, and manage high-performing engineers.
- Experience building or deploying generative AI, machine learning, developer platforms, or cloud-based software solutions in production environments.
- Strong technical depth across APIs, AI/ML systems, application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and modern developer workflows.
- Hands-on software engineering experience and fluency with programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.
- Comfortable working directly with highly technical engineering and product teams as well as CTOs and other executive stakeholders.
- Can translate ambiguous customer and business problems into clear technical approaches and guide teams from exploration through implementation and production.
- Demonstrate strong judgment about when to invest deeply in an individual customer challenge versus when to develop a repeatable solution for the broader segment.
- Effective communicator who can translate complex technical and business topics across audiences and coach others to do the same.
- Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and are energized by working with customers at the forefront of AI adoption.
- Demonstrate strong ownership, humility, curiosity, and a commitment to helping both customers and teammates succeed.
- Personally committed to fostering the safe and beneficial development of AI.
We could group as Requirements or Qualifications. Use heading "Qualifications" or "Requirements". The instruction list includes Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We could use "Qualifications". We'll put list under